Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Willy (John) Stockton (Calif.) History Collection,
- Dates:
- 1862-1929
- Creators:
- Bobbin Crabbe
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Willy (John) Stockton (Calif.) History Collection, Mss220, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Willy Collection consists of eleven scrapbooks of Stockton, Calif. history (1862-1929); a few photographs of historical sites in Stockton and in Oakland, Calif.; a Stockton tax assessor's plat book (1858); and, some loose clippings on Stockton history.
- Biographical / historical:
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John Willy (1851-1939) was Deputy Assessor of San Joaquin County, Calif. (1879-1934). Educated at Oakland College, he married Grace Ralph of Stockton and moved there in 1879. Hired shortly after by his father-in-law, County Assessor Calvin R. Ralph, Willy served as Deputy Assessor for the rest of his life. Willy kept scrapbooks outlining Stockton history (1862-1929).
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
- Physical description:
- 2.75 linear ft.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1998
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: October 1998.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Willy (John) Stockton (Calif.) History Collection, Mss220, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
- Location of this collection:
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University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University LibraryStockton, CA 95211, US
- Contact:
- (209) 946-2404