E Clampus Vitus, Billy Holcomb Chapter Collection
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Ontario City Library, Robert E. Ellingwood Model Colony History Room
2024
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Title: E Clampus Vitus, Billy Holcomb Chapter Collection
Dates: 1969-1998
Collection Number: Consult library
Creator/Collector:
E Clampus Vitus (Fraternal order)
Extent: 3 linear feet
Repository:
Ontario City Library, Robert E. Ellingwood Model Colony History Room
Ontario, California 91764-4111
Abstract: This small collection contains primarily ephemera items from the Billy Holcomb Chapter's various events and other memorabilia
items created or collected by members of this local chapter of the E Clampus Vitus order.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research during the operating hours of the Robert E. Ellingwood Model Colony History Room, or by appointment.
Collection open for research.
[Identification of item]. E Clampus Vitus, Billy Holcomb Chapter Collection. Collection Number: Consult library. Ontario City
Library, Robert E. Ellingwood Model Colony History Room
This collection was given to the Model Colony Room
by Phillip Holdaway, Archivist of the E Clampus Vitus Billy Holcomb Chapter, Riverside-San Bernardino Counties in 1998 or
thereabouts. Additional items have been collected by library staff.
Biography/Administrative History
The local chapter of E Clampus Vitus, Billy Holcomb, was founded in 1969 at Los Flores Ranch in San Bernardino County by L.
Burr Belden, a noted southern California historian. The chapter is active in state, local, and county historical societies
and works with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to place plaques
at greater and lesser historical sites within its territory of both San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Since October 1969,
Billy Holcomb Chapter has erected and dedicated over 100 plaques, including those along parts of the Mojave Road, the Patton
Desert Training Center (C.A.M.A.), Route 66, Speed of Light Experiments, various historical buildings and other edifices,
local native sites and ruins, and other varied and sundry persons, places and events of historical significance. A “clampout”
is arranged, cement is poured, a dedication given and a “keepsake” written after each dedication.
Scope and Content of Collection
This small collection contains ephemera and memorabilia created and collected by members of E Clampus Vitus, Billy Holcomb
Chapter. Examples of materials include newsletters, "keepsakes" from various historic marker dedications, flyers, pamphlets,
badges, books, and odd memorabilia items.
San Bernardino County (Calif.)
Riverside County (Calif.)