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  • Cal-Mex Ranch cotton gin mill

    Cal-Mex Ranch cotton gin mill

    Manuscripts

    Black and white photograph of the cotton gin mill at Cal-Mex Ranch. Four men, on with a dog on a leash, are shown conferring in the foreground. Behind them are several 4-wheeled wooden carts of cotton and the cotton gin mill itself.

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  • Exterior view of ranch house at Cal-Mex Ranch

    Exterior view of ranch house at Cal-Mex Ranch

    Manuscripts

    Black and white contact print of the exterior view of the ranch house at Cal-Mex Ranch. Written on print, "Gen. Otis's house in Mexico. - Calif. Mexican Ranch." House has sixteen columns visible, along with five chimneys. Grass and dirt path in foreground.

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  • Try Rice's seeds contended for, by all quarters of the globe : Cambridge Washington, Co. N.Y

    Try Rice's seeds contended for, by all quarters of the globe : Cambridge Washington, Co. N.Y

    Visual Materials

    Image of center image plus four vignettes on fans featuring oversized produce in an advertisement for Rice's Seeds; four men of various nationalities, including an American, a man in a turban, and an African-American, all tugging on an oversized basket of fruit and vegetables at center; an elderly woman in a lace cap with her dog reacts with shock at a large "Hubbard Squash" in her house; two men in ancient Egyptian garb examine a huge "New Egyptian Beet" near columns; an oversized "Striped Gypsy Water Melon" (watermelon) is consumed by a group of men and women; two children carry a giant tomato between them in a field.

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  • Ranchito, home of Pio Pico, view of ranch buildings

    Ranchito, home of Pio Pico, view of ranch buildings

    Visual Materials

    View of ranch buildings of Pio Pico on his El Ranchito property in Whittier, California, including equipment, tools, fencing, a birdhouse/aviary, and an open yard in the foreground. Three women and two men stand in front of one of the buildings with a trellis overhang.

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    Cal-Mex Land and Cattle Company - Photographs

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 40 items (some dupes): "Map of Imperial Development Co. Lands - Lower California, Mexico" (n.d.) ; collection of photo prints of regions adjacent to Colorado River and various canals, the Cudahy Ranch, etc. ; negatives corresponding to the prints.

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    Cal-Mex Land and Cattle Company - Reports

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 10 items: 20-pp. report in blue-green binder (cover reads "C.M. Ranch"), "Reclamation of the lower Colorado River delta in Mexico" (3/1920) ; report on Colorado River Land Co. "rentals collected" 1/1919 - 4/1920 ; report "Main Canals and Main Lateral Canals on Lands of the Colorado River Land Company..." ; other related reports. Includes Harry Chandler, O.F. Brant correspondence and Reclamation of the Lower Colorado River Delta in Mexico, report by J.D. Allison, consulting engineer

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