Albert Armor home movies
MP 001
Finding aid prepared by Jaime Henderson
California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA, 94105-4014
(415) 357-1848
reference@calhist.org
2014
Title: Albert Armor home movies
Date: 1938-1949
Collection Identifier: MP 001
Creator:
Armor, Albert
Extent: 23 reels
Repository:
California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-357-1848
reference@calhist.org
URL:http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/
Location of Materials: Collection is stored onsite.
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in English.
Abstract: This collection comprises home movies filmed by Albert Armor from 1938-1949. The bulk of the films depict the Armor family
of Corcoran, California, participating in holiday and birthday celebrations and family vacations. Other films depict cotton
and grain harvesting, cattle ranching, and irrigation, in the San Joaquin Valley.
Access
Original home movies are unavailable for paging and viewing. Use digitized copies available on the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/californiahistoricalsociety.
Publication Rights
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Director
of Library and Archives, North Baker Research Library, California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
94105. Consent is given on behalf of the California Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. Restrictions
also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational
purposes.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Albert Armor home movies, MP 001, California Historical Society.
Existence and Location of Copies
Digitized copies of home movies are available on the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/californiahistoricalsociety.
Acquisition Information
The Albert Armor home movies were donated to the California Historical Society by Nancy Pickford in 2013.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises home movies filmed by Albert Armor from 1938-1949. The films primarily depict the Armor family of
Corcoran, California participating in holiday and birthday celebrations and family vacations to a cabin in Doyle Springs near
Sequoia National Park; the San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition; Pasadena Rose Bowl and Parade; and La Quinta
Resort. The films also depict cotton and grain harvesting, cattle ranching, and irrigation in the San Joaquin Valley. Most
of the agricultural films were taken on Elmer von Glahn's farm and include footage of the planting and harvesting of cotton
for the J.G. Boswell Company. The films also show irrigation techniques used on the farm such as pumping water, the dredging
of irrigation ditches, and the construction of levees. The films also include footage of Tulare Lake and its wetlands, ecosystem,
and water fowl habitat before it became a dry bed due to the diverting of water for agricultural and municipal purposes.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's public access catalog:
Armor family.
Agricultural industries--California--San Joaquin Valley.
Amateur films.
Corcoran (Calif.)
Cotton growing--California--San Joaquin Valley.
Families.
Irrigation--California--Tulare Lake Region.
Ranching--California--San Joaquin Valley
Tulare Lake (Calif.)
Anne's first birthday
1944 June
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts Anne Armor's first birthday celebration; Anne playing with her friend Sue Boswell and swimming in the pool at
the family's summer cabin in Doyle Springs, California.
Elmer von Glahn showing machinery, tractors, and harvesting
1941
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts farmer Elmer von Glahn and the machinery used in his cotton and grain harvesting operation in Corcoran, California.
Doyle
1938
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts the Armor family's trip to their cabin in Doyle Springs, California.
Grain harvest
1943
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts the harvesting of grain on Elmer von Glahn's farm in Corcoran, California.
Family and folks
1938
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts the Armor family at home in Corcoran, California, and a visit to the beach on the Southern California coast with
J.G. Boswell's mother and grandmother.
Anne and Bill Armor
1949
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts siblings Anne and Bill Armor playing with friends at their family's home in Corcoran, California, and a visit
to Pasadena to view the 1949 Rose Parade.
Bill Armor
1946
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts Bill Armor's first birthday and first haircut; family life in their Corcoran, California home; and a family trip
to their cabin in Doyle Springs, California.
Anne and Bill, birthday, Doyle
1947
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts siblings Anne and Bill Armor at a birthday party with friends and vacationing at their family's summer cabin
in Doyle Springs, California.
Easter
1939
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts the Armor family's Easter holiday in 1939.
Christmas, La Quinta
1947
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts the Armor's trip to the La Quinta Resort in La Quinta, California, and Christmas at the Armor family home in
Corcoran, California, in 1947.
Anne and Bill Armor, Summer
1948
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts siblings Anne and Bill Armor through the summer of 1948. In the film Anne and Bill play dress up, celebrate Anne's
fifth birthday and Bill's third birthday, attend a wedding where Anne is the flower girl, and celebrate Anne's first day of
school.
Elmer von Glahn on Gates Ranch
1944
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts Elmer von Glahn pumping water, dredging an irrigation ditch and planting seeds on his farm in Corcoran, California.
Anne and Bill
1945
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts Anne and Bill Armor playing at their home in Corcoran, California, and at the family's summer cabin in Doyle
Springs, California.
World's Fair, '39, Rose Bowl, Christmas
1939
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film includes footage taken at the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939 in San Francisco, the Rose Bowl Parade and
football game in Pasadena, and the Armor family Christmas at their home in Corcoran, California.
Love life and growth of cotton
circa 1935-1945
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts the stages of growth in the life of cotton from the planting of seeds to the harvesting. The cotton was harvested
for the J.G. Boswell Company in Corcoran, California.
Baby in playpen
1944
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts Anne Armor's baptism and includes footage of Anne as a very young girl at her family's home in Corcoran, California.
Diary of Anne Armor
1943
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts newborn Anne Armor's first days upon arrival at the family home in Corcoran, California and her first trip to
the family's cabin in Doyle Springs, California.
Pelicans, Tulare Lake, flood scenes at Doyle
1938
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts a drive along Tulare Lake, flocks of pelicans at Tulare Lake, farm scenes and levees in the Central Valley, and
flooding at Doyle Springs, Calfornia.
Cotton and cattle
1943
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film contains footage of cotton harvesting, weighing of cotton bales, cattle pens and cattle branding on the Elmer von Glahn
farm in Corcoran, California.
Anne and Bill Armor at Doyle
1949
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts siblings Anne and Bill Armor at their family's summer cabin in Doyle Springs, California. Activities include
riding ponies, climbing rocks, a barbeque and playing in the Tule River.
Grain
1946
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film includes footage of Tulare Lake, possibly the Kern River, and methods of irrigation for the harvesting of grain in Corcoran,
California, by Elmer von Glahn.
Kings River, gliders, pelicans, and miscellany
undated
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film includes various scenes filmed in the Central Valley of California including the Kings River, pelicans (possibly at Tulare
Lake), and gliders in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
Cotton
1943
Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.
Scope and Contents
Film depicts cotton planting, weeding, picking and mechanical harvesting on Elmer von Glahn's farm in Corcoran, California.
