Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Poultry Improvement Commission Records
- Creators:
- Poultry Improvement Commission
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Poultry Improvement Commission Records, F3714, California State Archives.
Background
- Biographical / historical:
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The California Poultry Improvement Commission was an independent State commission created by the Legislature in 1939 (Stats. 1939, ch. 950) to establish and maintain facilities and methods for testing poultry breeding stock in California.
The Commission was terminated as of Oct. 3, 1969, by the Legislature (Stats. 1968, ch. 1247).
The Poultry Improvement Association was a voluntary organization which existed from 1936 to 1941. Its functions and records were taken over by the Commission.
"Correspondence" hereafter means letters received from various sources, and copies of letters sent by various Commission officials, unless otherwise specified. Correspondence is unarranged unless specified.
There is considerable mixing of correspondence between the various series, so cross-checks should be made to insure that all material relating to a particular person, time, or thing has been seen.
Series titles are self-explanatory except where followed by a descriptive paragraph.
- Physical description:
- See Series Descriptions
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2000
- Date Encoded:
- Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, June 2000. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Brooke Dykman Dockter.
Access and use
- Terms of access:
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For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the California State Archives. Permission for reproduction or publication is given on behalf of the California State Archives as the owner of the physical items. The researcher assumes all responsibility for possible infringement which may arise from reproduction or publication of materials from the California State Archives collections.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Poultry Improvement Commission Records, F3714, California State Archives.
- Location of this collection:
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1020 "O" StreetSacramento, CA 95814, US
- Contact:
- (916) 653-2246