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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle papers
Creator:
Del Valle, Reginaldo F. (Reginaldo
Francisco), 1845-1938
Identifier/Call Number: mssDelvalle
Physical Description:
6 Linear Feet
(4 boxes, 4 oversize folders)
Date (inclusive): 1835-1938
Date (bulk): 1920-1937
Abstract: A collection of personal and
professional material for Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle, California lawyer, politician, and
civic leader.
Language of Material: Materials are in English and
Spanish.
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[Identification of item]. Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Lucretia Grady, June 1940. Purchased from James Smalldon, March 1965.
Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle (1854-1938) was the son of Ygnacio Del Valle (1808-1880) and
Ysabel (Varela) Del Valle; Ygnacio Del Valle served as Alcalde of Los Angeles in 1850 and as
a state assemblyman in 1852. Reginaldo grew up in Los Angeles and at the family home,
Camulos Ranch, in Ventura County. He studied law, was elected to the state assembly (1879)
and the state senate (1882), and was a vice president of the Board of Water and Power
Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles from 1928 to 1929. Del Valle married Helen M.
(White) Cayatile (-1920); the couple had one daughter, Lucretia, who married Henry Francis
Grady. Del Valle was involved not only in state and local politics, he also took an active
part in civic affairs, and was concerned for public educational policy and with local
historical research groups.
A collection of 371 items from 1835 to 1938, which contains letters, manuscripts,
documents, and maps, in both English and Spanish, related to the life and career of
Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle. It includes material on California politics and government,
water resources, agriculture in the Owens Valley, the St. Francis Dam disaster, Stephen
Mallory White, the Del Valle family (including a copy of the will of Ygnacio del Valle) and
the William Mulholland Memorial. There are also land papers for the Camulos Ranch in Ventura
County, California.
Processed by Huntington Library Staff, circa 1945 and 1970. In 2020, Gayle Richardson
created the finding aid derived from a legacy summary report.
Arranged chronologically.
Individual call numbers included in the collection: mssHM 43701-43973, mssHM 44683-44707,
mssFAC 805-806.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Agriculture -- California -- Owens Valley
Civic leaders -- California, Southern
Floods -- California -- Santa Clara River
Land tenure -- California -- Ventura County
Land titles -- California -- Ventura County
Legislators -- California
Water resources development -- California
Water-supply -- California
California -- History
California -- Politics and Government --
1850-1950
Rancho Camulos (Calif.) -- History
Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)
Letters (correspondence) -- California
Manuscripts -- California
Maps -- California
Mulholland, William,
1855-1935
White, Stephen Mallory,
1853-1901
Board of Water and Power
Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles
Democratic Party
(Calif.)