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  1. Visitor's Recreation Guide Book, Imperial County, California.

    Guidebook

    Record Type: Library

    Visitor's Recreation Guide Book, Imperial County, California.
  2. Visitor's Recreation Guide Book, Imperial County, California.

    Guidebook

    Record Type: Library

    Visitor's Recreation Guide Book, Imperial County, California
  3. Visitor's Recreation Guide Book, Imperial County, California.

    Guidebook

    Record Type: Library

    Visitor's Recreation Guide Book, Imperial County, California.
  4. Western Growers Association Directory. Small three ring binder titled: Western Growers Association Directory. This is regards to aguculture. List members, locations, brands etc. some from Imperial Valley.

    Book

    Record Type: Library

    Western Growers Association Directory
  5. Yearbook / annual for Riverside High School. Belonged to Lean I. Bridenstine, of Holtville. She graduated from this high school in 1910, see page 28 and 31. Note: Some of the other students also might be from the Imperial Valley.

    Yearbook

    Record Type: Library

    Riverside High School
  6. Yearbook for U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve - Camp LeJeune, New River, N.C. Belonged to Lera Pool, lived in the Imperial Valley.

    Yearbook

    Record Type: Library

    U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve - Camp LeJeune, New River, N.C.
  7. Book titled: Stories From The Wild West. Partly experienced personally, partly from true facts by Henning Von Bosse. See pages 120 & 122 for photos used from the archives of the Pioneers Museum. Has stories of searching for Pegleg Mine. Note: This is a limited edition of 1,500 printed in 1998.

    Book

    Record Type: Library

    Stories From The Wild West
  8. Book titled: Desert Lore of Southern California, written by Choral Pepper. California Desert Natural History Guides. Cover Imperial Valley, Yuma and surrounding areas. Has story about the Ostrich farm in Brawley. Photos from ICHS collection were used in this book.

    Book

    Record Type: Library

    Desert Lore of Southern California
  9. California Historical Quarterly magazine. See page 100 for article titled: Industrial Workers of the World aka IWW and their Fresno Free Speech Fight, 1910-1911 written by Ronald Genini. Note: This group was also known as the IWW and was here in the Imperial Valley. Rumor is that they poisoned Sheriff Mobley Meadows.

    Magazine

    Record Type: Library

    California Historical Society Quarterly
  10. Serving Together. A book of information and record for employees of the Traffic Department Southern California Area, The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. Printed on the front in gold letter's is the name Margene McCurry. See page 15 for "The San Diego Suburban District" / Imperial Valley. Picture of Miss. E, Guidotti, Holtville operator, Mrs. G. Bump, Calexico operator, Mrs. M. Wynne, El Centro operator, and Mrs. V. Ballantyne, Brawley operator.

    Book, Instruction

    Record Type: Library

    Serving Together
  11. California Historical Society Quarterly. See article on page 267 titled: The Bank of Italy and the 1926 Campaign in California written by Russell M. Posner. Part 2. There was a Bank of Italy in the Imperial Valley in the 1920's. It later became the Bank of America.

    Magazine

    Record Type: Library

    California Historical Society Quarterly
  12. Book titled: Power And Control in Imperial Valley, California: Nature, Agribusiness, labor And Race Relations, 1900-1940. This is a dissertation by Benny Joseph Andres, Jr. aka Benny Andres. Groups studied: Japanese American, Mexican, Filipinos & Hindu (East Indians)

    Thesis

    Record Type: Library

    Power And Control in Imperial Valley, California: Nature, Agribusiness, labor And Race Relations, 1900-1940
  13. Book titled: Indians of America, Mohawk Trail written by Lillian Davids Fazzini. Inscription on inside reads:To Bobby, A lad whom I have never met but hope to. Hope this little book will be of some assistiance in school. Uncle Tommy. Note: Given to Robert R. Westcott in 1938.

    Book

    Record Type: Library

    Indians of America, Mohawk Trail
  14. Booklet titled: Desert Diamonds. This is a book of poetry written in celebration of Imperial Valley's Diamond Jubilee. Writers were: Merry Harris; Lola Knutson; Gloria H. Procsal; Billie Allen; L. C. Dancer, Elizabeth Lee; Dick Place; Geraldine Plumb; Ralph Ratliff; Claire Reilly; Ma-Lee Ridge; Wes Taylor; Willametta Keffer; Martin B. Keffer. In Memory of E. P. Bert Boyden; W. E. Crockett; Billy C. Miller; Rubia Miller; Sue Sears and Corwin Vencill.

    Book

    Record Type: Library

    Desert Diamonds
  15. Photocopy of a booklet titled: Calipatria, Imperial Valley California. Cover has "Greek" woman holding a basket of vegetables. Originally published in 1923 or 1923. Written on inside cover "To Mrs. Mary Hatfield, From Sonny & Josephine Thetford, march 14, 1989". Booklet is mainly about crops grown in the valley

    Pamphlet

    Record Type: Library

    Calipatria, Imperial Valley California
  16. Book titled: California In Our Time 1900-1940. Written by Robert Glass Cleland. California history, 1900-1947. See index for imformatio on Imperial Valley.

    Book

    Record Type: Library

    California In Our Time 1900-1940
  17. Magazine titled: The Californians The Magazine of California History. See story on page 40 titled: On the Anza Expedition Trail 1774-1776. Written by Jimmy Lumpkin. Also see page 14 for article titled: The Flat-Tires, Flat-Tires - People written by Mary Sears. She was hired by the Agricultural Workers Health & Medical Association of the Federal Farm Security Administration and she worked in the Imperial County in the 1930's.

    Magazine

    Record Type: Library

    The Californians
  18. Book titled: My Mother by Eloise D. Pomeroy. Story is of Josephine Dorothea Placencia who's mother was a nurse in the Imperial Valley and is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery. Autographed by author.

    Book

    Record Type: Library

    My Mother
  19. Book about the 442nd Combat Team, an all Japanese American Unit in World War Two. Two books Also 2 shoulder patches of the emblem for the 442nd Combat Team.

    Book

    Record Type: Library

    442nd Combat Team
  20. Magazine titled: The Imperial Valley Magazine. Articles titled: Dairying in the Imperial Valley, W.E. Wilsie Dairyman and Rancher, Poem - The Green Shade Trees of Brawley by A. L. Smyth; Cause and Effects in Early Fruits, Imperial County, California, Poem - Transformation by Durward Johnson, Experimenting with Cotton in the Imperial Valley, The Imperial Valley, Imperial Valley Grapes in New York. Note: Nice ads and photos in this booklet.

    Magazine

    Record Type: Library

    The Imperial Valley Magazine

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