Shaw (H.C.) Company Collection, 1900-1969

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Title:: H.C. Shaw Company Collection
Dates:: 1900-1969
Abstract:: The H.C. Shaw Company Collection consists of business-related material generated by a pioneering Stockton, California, agricultural implement dealer and manufacturer best known for the invention, sales, and production of the celebrated Stockton Gang Plow, a device noted for its role in facilitating cultivation of California's Central Valley.
Extent:: 7 linear feet
Language:: Records written in English
Preferred citation:: Preferred citation: [Item name], H.C. Shaw Company Collection, MS27, San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum, Lodi, California.

Scope and content:: Material in the H.C. Shaw Company Collection dates from 1900 to 1969. The nature of its contents varies widely, from ledgers, and insurance forms, to contracts, agent lists, lease agreements, receipts, and correspondence.
Biographical / historical:: Dating from 1867, the H.C. Shaw Company was one of the oldest and most venerated businesses of Stockton, California. Its founder, Col. H. C. Shaw (d. 1904) is known mainly for his invention of the Stockton Gang Plow, a device that for the first time combined several plow blades set parallel into one mechanism, thus facilitating cultivation of Central California's vast fields in less time and with less labor than previously possible. In addition to making and selling gang plows, the company sold a variety of agricultural goods and implements, including wagons, buggies, carriages, and carts.
Physical location:: Erickson Vault

Subjects:: Plows--1860-1870
San Joaquin County (Calif.)--History
Stockton (Calif.)--History

Date Prepared:: 2015
Date Encoded:: Machine-readable finding aid prepared by Leigh Johnsen April 29, 2015

Access and use

Restrictions:: Collection is open for research by appointment.
Terms of access:: The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary property.

Preferred citation:: Preferred citation: [Item name], H.C. Shaw Company Collection, MS27, San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum, Lodi, California.

Location of this collection:: San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum

11793 North Micke Grove Road

Lodi, CA 95241, US