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West India Plantations business ledger
MS 165  
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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • Collection Scope and Contents
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: West India Plantations business ledger
    Date (inclusive): 1912-1917
    Collection Number: MS 165
    Creator: West India Plantations
    Extent: 1.19 linear feet (1 box)
    Repository: Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
    Riverside, CA 92517-5900
    Abstract: The collection consists of the business ledger of the West India Plantations, a company founded and ran in part by Frederick O. Popenoe, to import, grow and sell agricultural goods including date palms. Materials in the ledger cover the business records from the entirety of the Pasadena, California based company's existence from 1912-1917 and include their Articles of Incorporation, bylaws, meeting minutes, resolutions, accounting records, and shareholder information.
    Languages: The collection is in English.

    Access

    This collection is unprocessed. Please contact Special Collections & University Archives regarding the availability of materials for research use.

    Publication Rights

    Copyright Unknown: Some material in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction, and/or commercial use, of some materials may be restricted by gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing agreement(s), and/or trademark rights. Distribution or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. To the extent other restrictions apply, permission for distribution or reproduction from the applicable rights holder is also required. Responsibility for obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user.

    Preferred Citation

    [identification of item], [date if possible]. West India Plantations business ledger (MS 165). Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.

    Acquisition Information

    Provenance unknown.

    Collection Scope and Contents

    The collection consists of the business ledger of the West India Plantations, a company founded and ran in part by Frederick O. Popenoe, to import, grow and sell agricultural goods including date palms. Materials in the ledger cover the business records from the entirety of the Pasadena, California based company's existence from 1912-1917 and include their Articles of Incorporation, bylaws, meeting minutes, resolutions, accounting records, and shareholder information.

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

    Subjects

    Popenoe, Frederick O., 1863-1934
    Agriculture
    Agriculture -- California
    Date palm
    Ledgers (account books)

    Genres and Forms of Materials

    Business records