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Title: Mary Brazil papers
Dates: 1900-1963, bulk 1922-1945
Collection Number: MS.1981.139
Creator/Collector:
Extent: .84 linear feet (2 boxes)
Repository:
Mill Valley Public Library
Mill Valley, California 94941
Abstract: Papers, financial documents, account books, photographs, bills, and other ephemera belonging to Mary Brazil, Portuguese dairy
rancher in Marin County. The bulk of the materials pertain to Mary Brazil’s business operations and personal correspondence.
Additional material documents the correspondence and other papers of her husband, Antone (Antonio) Brazil, as well as her
brother, Tony Brazil.
Language of Material: Portuguese
Collection is open for research. Original materials may be viewed with permission from staff. Digital copies of materials
may be available. Materials in this collection do not circulate.
Mary Brazil papers. Mill Valley Public Library
Biography/Administrative History
Mary Brazil was born in the Azores in 1890 and died in Santa Rosa in April of 1962, at the age of 72. She was married to Antone
(or Antonio) Silveria Brazil, who was born in 1854 and died in 1936 at the age of 81. She had two siblings, Tony Brazil and
Mariane Enos. Mary Brazil owned and operated a dairy farm known as Brazil Ranch, located on Little Reed Ranch on the Tiburon
Peninsula at the present location of the Del Mar School playing fields and tennis courts. She acquired the ranch in 1926 as
an inheritance from her close friend Clothilde (or Clotilda) Josefa Reed, owner of the Corte Madera del Presidio Rancho which
encompassed Little Reed Ranch. In 1944, Mary Brazil sold the dairy and after fifty years in the dairy industry, she retired
to Santa Rosa in 1958.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains material from Mary Brazil, longtime dairy farmer in Marin. The material consists of checkbooks, bills,
financial papers, ephemera, photographs, and correspondence relating to Mary Brazil’s business and personal life, as well
as papers, correspondence, and other ephemera related to Antone and Tony Brazil. Collection includes bills and receipts belonging
to the Reed Estate, and the final account of the estate of Antone Silva Brazil.
Dairy farms
Portuguese
Ranches
Brazil, Antone S.
Brazil, Mary
Brazil, Tony
Costa, Serefine
Homen, Joe R.
Pacheco, Antonia
Pacheco, Laura D.
Pacheco, Lorraine A.
Reed, Clothilde J.
Silva, Manuel, Jr.
Brazil Family
Reed Family
Brazil Ranch
Little Reed Ranch
Marin County (Calif.)
Mill Valley (Calif.)