Title:

Edward C. Wagner notebook documenting well drilling projects in Humboldt County, California and assorted ephemera, 1915-1938

Creator/Contributor:

Wagner, Edward C., creator, correspondent.

A handwritten journal in a composition book with 44 pages. Includes diary style entries, technical notes, and two sketches documenting the drilling of wells in Garberville, Humboldt County, California as part of the expansion of the town's water services. The journal belonged to Edward C. Wagner of Stockton, California, one of the owners of the prominent Wagner Leather Company. The entries discuss the various pumping mechanisms and other machinery at work, the testing of the well, water levels, and the various parties involved, including landowners, contractors, and laborers. Laid in the journal are two photographs, one of the residence of Mrs. G. E Houshen (1930) and one of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, as well as a program for a music recital by the pupils of Miss Hjerleid-Shelley, including Edward Wagner, in Stockton in 1915, and one letter addressed to Edward Wagner from France in 1929.

Date:

1930 (issued)

Subject:

Wells

Humboldt County (Calif.)

Garberville (Calif.)

Wagner, Edward C -- Archives

Purchase from Caroliniana; September 2019.

Edward C. Wagner notebook documenting well drilling projects in Humboldt County, California and assorted ephemera, BANC MSS 2021/1, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

In English.

print

.1 (1 volume)

English

Origin:

California