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Date Palm collection
MS 047
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Title: Date Palm collection
Date (inclusive): circa 1870-1970
Collection Number: MS 047
Extent:
5.75 linear feet
(5 boxes, 1 flat file folder)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Abstract: This collection contains records and research on the date palm industry and date palm farming throughout the 20th century,
including photographs of date palm farms, brochures, and newspaper clippings. Additionally, the collection contains photographs,
programs, correspondence, and pamphlets pertaining to the United States Department of Agriculture Date Station, and items
from date palm researchers Walter T. Swingle, and Roy W. Nixon.
Languages: The collection is in English and French.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright Unknown: Some materials in these collections 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.
[identification of item], [date if possible]. Date Palm collection (MS 047). Special Collections & University Archives, University
of California, Riverside.
Provenance unknown.
The collection was processed by Serena Rodholm, Student Processing Assistant, in 2017.
Processing of the Date Palm collection was completed by undergraduate students from the University of California, Riverside
as part of the Special Collections & University Archives Backlog Processing Project started in 2015. This project was funded
by the UCR Library and administered by Jessica Geiser, Collections Management Librarian.
This collection contains photographs, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other material regarding the date
palm industry and research efforts related to this plant species. Materials in the collection include photographs of date
palm farms in California, North Africa, and Iraq as well as photographs regarding the cultivation of palm varieties and palm
diseases. Brochures and newspaper clippings documenting the date palm industry in the Coachella Valley are also included.
Additionally, this collection includes items from the United States Department of Agriculture Date Station as well as researchers
Walter T. Swingle, and Roy W. Nixon.
This collection is divided into eight series. The series are arranged as follows:
- Series 1. Photographs, circa 1870-1979
- Series 2. Newspapers, 1912-1966
- Series 3. Correspondence, 1903-1986
- Series 4. Programs, 1927-1950
- Series 5. Date palm informational material, 1887-2015
- Series 6. Pamphlets, circa 1914-1968
- Series 7. Scrapbooks, 1909-1951
- Series 8. Maps, 1914-1958, undated
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Nixon, Roy W. (Roy Wesley), 1895-
Swingle, Walter T. (Walter Tennyson), 1871-1952
Agriculture -- Research
Date palm
Dates (fruit)
Brochures
Clippings (information artifacts)
Photographs