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[Downed power lines in Pajaro River]

[Flooded land along river, barns, houses]

[Pajaro River bridge, high water - "River Machine Works" in background]

[Flood waters - river front property]

["Fox Theater", 304 Main St., marquee "Everyday's Holiday" also "Double Danger", Hotel Pajaro in background]

["Pajaro Valley National Bank", 326 Main St. front door & clock, "Fox Theater", 304 Main St. in background]

["Pajaro Valley National Bank", 326 Main St.]

["F.W. Woolworth Co. 5 & 10 and 15 cent store", 333 Main St.]

["Standard Stations, Inc." gas station, 222 Main St. and "Standard Furniture Co., New & Used" store, possible 258 Main St.]

["Central Market & Grocery", 242 Main St.]

[Fox Theater marquee, 304 Main St. - "Everyday's Holiday" also "Double Danger" - man carrying sand bag]

[Main Street, "John's Shoe Store", 327 Main St. sign and "Buckhart's, Candy - Lunches", sign, 329 Main St.]

[Car with bags of potates in rumble seat - street sign "Stop When Pedestrians are in Cross Walk"]

[2 men in a boat going up Main Street]

[U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, 213 Main St., garage sign - motor boat tied up to lamp post]

[Man pulling people in boat, "Busy Bee Lunch", 301 Main St. sign in back]

[Store signs "The Red & White Stores" 312 Main St., "M & M Market"]

[Store sign "252 Main St. Trading Post, Sell & Trade" - sand bags across entry way]

[Man holding on to wood dam protecting store - "Standard Stations, Inc." gas station in background]

[Man in boots laying on sand bags]

[Man in boots sitting at shoe shine stand - store sign "HAIR CUT 40 cents...]

[Tied up shoe shine bench - sign "HAIRCUTS 35 cents, children 25 cents"]

[Boat in garage - Sign "Fire Chief gasoline"]

[Looking out from behind sand bags at "New York Bakery", 218 Main St. across flooded street]

[Woman smoking a cigarette standing in doorway watching water rise]

[Man riding bike in flood waters - "Standard Stations, Inc." gas station, 222 Main St. in background]

["OWL free training quarters" sign in background. Foreground - floodwaters and row of men standing on top of sand bags]

[Flooded street - "Frigidaire" and "Portola Garage" 245 Main St., signs]

[Tractor pulling car and men riding both vehicles through flood waters]

["MOHAWK" truck in flood waters and "Watsonville Laundry Dry Cleaning Co.", 212 Main St. sign in background]

[Highway sign - Hecker Pass Rd. 1/2; Santa Cruz 19; Castroville 12; Aromas 7; California State Automobile Assn.]

[Flooded street - street signs "Superb Market Chinn Co." and "Calvary Mission, Full Gospel", 12 Bridge St.]

[Flooded street with man smoking a cigar and pants rolled up to knees closing door to liquor store]

[Street sign "Carlton Hotel", 176 Main St. and building sign "Canton Market, Lew Kim & Co., Meat & Groceries...Beer on Ice", 174 Main St.]

[2 men paddling a canoe in front of "Standard Stations, Inc." gas station]

[3 men rowing uo flooded street - store sign "Chop Suey Restaurant Noodles"]

[Flood waters lapping at mail box near lamp post]

[Flood waters lapping at store front - "Chocolate and chewing gum" dispenser on wall]

[Flooded residential street - "CABINS" sign]

[Flooded street, almost submerged fire hydrant in foreground - "Hotel Italian Dinners" sign in background]

[Looking up flooded street - "Fisk Tires, Tire Shop" in background]

[2 men and row boat looking down flooded street - street signs "Drugs", "Fisk Tires, Tire Shop]

[Flooded streets - gas station signs "Tires & Accessories", "Complete Lubrication Service"]

[Flooded streets, gas pumps in flood waters]

[Flooded businesses - "Shangai Restaurant", "Sunshine Laundry, Dry Cleaning", 140 Main St.]

[3 men looking out at flood waters from 140 Main St. - store signs "Tokyo Laundry", "Sunshine Laundry, dry cleaning", "Pidcock the Tailor"]

[4 men looking out at flood waters from store entry at 140 Main St. - 142 Main St. "Town Tavern"]

[142 Main St. "Town Tavern" - 4 men looking out at rising flood water - 1 man arriving by row boat at front entrance"]

[Rising flood waters at from steps of Salvation Army chapel, 126 Union St. - man watching from doorway]

[Flooded residential streets, car driving in flood waters]

[Flood waters around "Standard Stations, Inc." gas station and "Roma Hotel - Italian Diners" in background]

[2 men rowing up street past the "Watsonville Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co.", 212 Main St.]

2 men looking down at flood water from 2nd story room above building sign "EXIDE Batteries"]

[Man standing in flooded entrance to "Star Grill" next to "Ying Lee Laundry & Dry Cleaning" at 180 Main Street]

[5 men walking in flood waters in front of "Watsonville Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co.", 212 Main St.. - 6th man in kayak]

[3 men in row boat. "Busy Bee Lunch, 301 Main St. sign on building in background]

[Flood waters in front of "Canton Market", 174 Main St., "Lew Kim & Co." store]

[Flood waters in front of 154 Main St. "United Co.", cigars and tobacco store]

[Flood waters - street signs - "Superba Products", Bardmess Court, 113 Main St., "Eagle Cafe" and "Big Fat Boy Diner"]

[Flood waters on Main Street - "Watsonville Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co.", 212 Main St., "Geo. Wale, Jr. Used Car Department", 206 Main St.]

[Flood waters at front of "Lu-Vi-Min Grocery", 126 Main St. and "International Pool Hall" next door]

[Flooded street in front of "International Pool Hall Billiards", 124 Main St.]

[Flood waters outside "Soo Chow Tea Room", 101 Main St.]

[Men and children looking out of second story window above "J.C. Cadiente & Son, Tailor" at flood waters]

[Flood fields along side flooded street]

[Flooded fields, flooded street, windmill in background]

[Flooded fields, factory buildings in background]

[Cars driving through flooded street]

[Barn and out buildings surrounded by flood waters]

[Man and woman standing outside their home in flood waters]

[Flooded fields, bill board for "Hotel Resetar" in Watsonville]

[After flood waters receded - silt damage]

[Aftermath of flood - silt damage to plowed fields]

[Silt damage to plowed field after water receded]

[Mud deposits on front lawns and streets after the flood waters receded]

[Mud deposited in yards and street by flood waters]

[Flooded downtown - "Bob & Ed's Lunch" ; "Portola Garage", 245 Main St.; "Fox Theater", 304 Main St.; "New Hotel & Central Grill", 242 Main St.]

[Delivering newspaper by row boat to "Golden Keg Liquor Store"]

[Woman and boy looking out at flood waters from 2nd story at "New York Bakery", 218 Main St.]

[3 men looking out at flood waters from entrance to restaurant dining room]

[2 men in oncoming flood waters from behind telephone pole and overturned boat]

[5 boys wadding in receding flood waters in front of "Standard Stations, Inc." gas station at 222 Main St.]

[Young man leaning against building in flood water next to "Standard Stations, Inc." gas station. 222 Main St. and "New York Bakery", 218 Main St.]

[3 girls wading in flood waters near "New York Bakery", 218 Main St. and "Watsonville Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co.", 212 Main St.]

Watsonville, February 28, 1938 Flood - Scrapbook front material

a. Title page

b. Clipping on erosin 10/24/1950

c. Cover photo [Main St. by Plaza]

d. Frontispiece [man reading newspaper

#1 - Robert E. Burton's high school forestry class

#2-3 Boys at work

#4 Sponsors, Burton & boys preparing their camp beds

#5 Camp McQuaid practice

#6-8 Professor Crocheron, Head of the U.C. Extension, Berkeley, CA

#9 Farm Cooperators, Santa Cruz County. Mrs. Harold Nelson of Soquel and Karl Hummel (without hat) at the surveying instrument

#10, 12-13 - Farm Cooperators

#11 Farm Cooperators - Karl Hummel of Skyland on far left (no hat)

#14 Frank (Olois) Oettl - Skyland fruit grower, former Supervisor and Farm & Agriculture extension cooperator

#15 An outdoor demonstration meeting - possibly on soil erosion

#16 Karl Hummel holding ruler

#17 Farmers listen to Farm Advisor. Woman next to box is Mrs. Karl Hummel

#18 They came in their best overalls - Cooperator, Gene Mungai, Davenport (on back)

#19 Farm Cooperators - Karl Hummel of Skyland on far left (no hat)

#20 Karl Hummel, front row (no hat). Frank Oettl, Skyland, in far back row

#21 A UC Farm Extension tour

#22 Pack trip in High Sierra to Quinley's Boy's Camp

#23 A 4-H girl

#24 [Gene] Mungai of Davenport fertilizing artichokes

#25 Spillway, Boulder Dam in its earliest days

#26 Farmer

#27 Surveyor's group

#28, 31 Young farmer of tommorrow

#29 Extension meeting - surveying

#30 Extension cooperator

#32 Karl Hummel, Skyland farmer - grew good pears and nectarines

#33 Candid Portrait of Farmer

#34 Song Leader, photography model

#35 Farm children

#36 Farmer

#37 4-H Chickens

#38 Farm Advisor Henry Washburn

#39 4-H Camp Loma, Santa Cruz County

#40 Remig Schneider in the redwood park he maintained in Santa Cruz Mountains

#41 Karl Hummel at tripod

Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau Items 1917-1921

"The Ideal Scrap Books", Henry L. Washburn

1924-1925

1928-1930

1930-1931

1931-1932

"Santa Cruz Mountains - Loma Prieta Forest" 1937