JUNE ENGLISH COLLECTION

Materials relating to the history of Fresno and Madera Counties and the adjacent Sierra Nevada Mountains. Includes books, typescripts, research notes, newspaper clippings, oral interview tapes and transcripts, and maps. 15 linear feet + approx. 100 photographs. Mrs English was a local historian.

An index of the photographs in the June English Collection is available here

B - Books
M - Manuscripts
Annotations, where indicated, were made by June English.

B Balsam Meadow cultural resources study, by Theodoratus [et al] Fair Oaks, CA, Theodoratus Cultural Research, 1978.
B Bigelow, John. Memoir of the life and public services of John Charles Fremont. New York, 1856.
B Bunnell, Lafayette Houghton. Discovery of Yosemite and the Indian war of 1851 which led to that event. Los Angeles, 1911. Photocopy.
  Burial inscriptions and cemetery records. 2 v. Labeled "Cemeteries". Table of contents.
B California vs. W.A. Sanders (Wooten case). (These items are filed together in a box.)
  Transcript on appeal. October 9, 1895.
  Brief for appellant. Filed November 11, 1895. Transferred from Colver Pamphlet Collection.
  Appellant's reply brief. February 3, 1896. Transferred from Colver Pamphlet Collection.
  Appellant's petition for rehearing. 1896. Transferred from Colver Pamphlet Collection.
B Carson, James. Recollections of the California mines. Oakland, Biobooks, 1950. Photocopy. Annotated.
MS Chambers, James M. Reminiscences of ... and typescript diary of Warren Matthew. 1966. Table of contents; annotated.
B Clough, Charles. Madera: the rich, colorful and exciting historical heritage of that area ... Madera, 1963. Annotated.
  Daily Evening Expositor. January 1, 1890 + photocopy. Filed in newspaper drawer.
  Dakin Pub. Co. City of Fresno, Fresno Co., Calif. [Atlas] 1893. Photocopy.
  Derby, George H. The topographical reports of ... Photocopy.
  Early brands and marks. Table of contents.
B Eccleston, Robert. The diaries of Robert Eccleston ... Salt Lake City, University of Utah, 1957. Photocopy.
B Elliott, Wallace W. & Co., San Francisco. History of Fresno County, California ... San Francisco, 1882. Photocopy. Annotated.
B Feasibility study of rehabilitation of the old Administration Building at Fresno City College as an agricultural museum. Fresno, 1977. Annotated, with typed errata.
B Ferris, David F. Judge Marvin and the founding of the California public school system. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1962.
MS Fort Miller/Millerton. Notes + table of contents.
  Fowler Ensign, Fowler Centennial, v.78, no.18, May 3, 1972.
  Fresno Bee, Fresno Centennial, September 22, 1985.
  Fresno, Calif. - Pioneers, v.1 - A-L; v.2 - M-Z - Clippings
  Fresno, Calif. - Views, municipal - Clippings
MS Fresno County business licenses, 1856-1861. Photocopy + transcript.
  Fresno County census, 1870. On 35 mm positive film on cardboard. 2 boxes.
MS Fresno County great register, 1873/74, 1877.
B Fresno County great register, 1877, 189l, 1896, 1898. Photocopies of typescripts. From Ash Tree Echo.
B Fresno Genealogical Society. Fresno County cemetery records. Fresno, 1985.
MS Fresno County mining claims, 1856. Typescript. Table of contents.
B Fresno's yesterdays, post-1919.
B Fresno's yesterdays, pre-1920.
  Hurt, Bert. Sawmill history of the Sierra National Forest, 1852-1940.
B Hurt, Bert. Sawmill history of the Sierra National Forest, 1852-1940. Annotated typescript.
  Inyo-Mono County history
B Ise, John. The United States forest policy. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1920.
  James, David Bice (Vindex)
B King, Clarence. Mountaineering in the Kings River country. Olympic Valley, CA, Outbooks, 1978.
MS Kinsman, Joseph. Diary. Table of contents.
B Kipps, Jo Anne. Construction and Balch camp: interviewing the "old- timers" to reconstruct FRE-502. 1983. Original + photocopy.
B Latta, Frank. San Joaquin primeval: Uncle Jeff's story. Tulare, Press of the Tulare Times, 1929. Photocopy. Index.
B Madera County great register, 1894. Photocopy.
MS Madera County towns & pioneers. Various typescripts, clippings, etc. Not indexed.
  Madera Tribune, Madera County Diamond Jubilee, 1893-1968. Filed in newspaper drawer.
  Mariposa County census 1850. Research notes.
B Mariposa County census, 1850, 1851, 1852, and Fresno County census, 1860. Typescript.
MS Maxson, Monica L. Maxson's at Trimmer, 1891-1953. Typescript.
MS Maxson Family at Trimmer Springs. Photocopy of typescript.
MS Merced great register, 1892.
B Millerton Lake Courthouse interpretive prospectus. Fresno? 1968. Annotated.
MS Millerton Courthouse Restoration Committee. Miscellaneous files.
  Monterey - Clippings
B Munuhoo articles from the North Fork journal, 1919-1987.
MS Myers, Lee Woodcock. The green pastures of the Far West [and] Along the Hillbilly Trail. Typescript, 196-. About Squaw Valley, Dunlap, Indians.
  Myers, Lee Woodcock - Scrapbooks (3) with index.
B O'Neal, John. "2 blades of grass where 1000's grew before." Western livestock journal, 1952. Photocopy.
  Oral histories (on cassette tapes). 2 boxes.
B Otis, George. History of Selma. 1911. Photocopy with index.
  Parks, National and local - Clippings
B Peirson, Erma. Kern's desert. 3d printing. Bakersfield, CA, 1956.
  Proposed Ponderosa County files, 1980-82
B San Joaquin Genealogical Society. 1850 census of San Joaquin County. Stockton, 1959.
B San Joaquin Genealogical Society. Gold rush days; vital statistics copied from early newspapers of Stockton, Calif., 1850-55. Stockton, 1958.
B San Joaquin Genealogical Society. Marriage records of San Joaquin County, Calif., Aug. 1850- Dec. 1865, v.1. Stockton, 1969.
B San Joaquin Genealogical Society. Old cemeteries of San Joaquin County. Stockton, 1960-64. 3 v.
MS Sanders, Thomas D. Hardships and perils on the western frontier; or, Fifty years of pioneering. Typescript. Table of contents.
  Sanders, W.A. (Wooten case) See California vs. W.A. Sanders (Wooten case)
B Sargent, Shirley. John Muir in Yosemite. lst ed. Yosemite, CA, 1971.
B 7-county directory. Oakland, McKenney, 1884. Photocopy of Fresno County entries.
  Sierra Nevada Mountains - Place names - Clippings
B Sierra Star newspapers
B Smith, Judy Edwina. Sierra National Forest, Fresno, California: a history of the Bass Lake District to 1930. CSUF master's thesis, 1983. Photocopy.
B Smith, Wallace. Garden of the sun. 4th ed. Fresno, 1960. Annotated.
B Southern Pacific Co. Southern Pacific bulletin, Pacific Lines, Aug. 1955, First century. San Francisco, 1955.
  Stammerjohan, George R. Historical sketch of Millerton Lake State Recreation Area, with index.
B Starr, Walter A. Starr's guide to the John Muir Trail. 12th ed. San Francisco, Sierra Club, 1967.
MS Sweet, Nathan. Research notes, ed. by June English. Notes on Fresno Expositor, 1870-1879; Mariposa Gazette, single issues, 1859, 1864-1893.
B Teilman, I. Historical story of irrigation in Freno and Kings County. Photocopy. Annotated.
  Thomas, Deborah A. The disappearance of William Wooten. Paper for History 289, CSUF, 1977. Filed with California vs. W.A. Sanders (Wooten case).
B Tulare County census, 1860, 1870.
  Tulare County census, 1860, 1876. Microfilm in homemade boxes.
B Tweed, William. Shorty Lovelace, Kings Canyon fur trader. Three Rivers, CA? Sequoia Natural History Association, 1980.
B U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1933 California rollbook.
B U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1933 California rollbook (within and adjacent to the Sierra National Forest).
B U.S. Forest Service. Draft environmental impact statement [Sierra National Forest] and map packet. 2 v.
B U.S. Forest Service. Proposed forest land and resource management plan [Sierra National Forest] and map packet. 1979? 2 v.
B Vandor, Paul E. History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches ... Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1919. 2 v. Annotated.
B Visalia Times-Delta, Centennial ed., 1859-1959, with chapter index. Typescript.
B Waltz, Georgia. Meadow Lakes. Fresno, Sierra Printing and Lithograph Co., 1967.
  Wash, Robert. An outline history of our county. In Fresno Guide, November 10, l966.
MS Wash, Robert. Our county's yesterdays. Typescript of articles published in the Fresno Bee, 1954-55.
  Wooten case. See California vs. W.A. Sanders (Wooten case)

Bound files:

  • Bugg Family
  • Coalinga Mineral Springs
  • Crews, Edith Alberta
  • Fresno City
  • Fresno pioneers, A-L
  • Fresno pioneers, M-Z
  • Fresno pioneers, Miscellaneous
  • Hazelton/Akers
  • Indians
  • Indians - Pre-history
  • James, David Bice (Vindex)
  • Kings County
  • Parks (National, county, state, city)
  • Politics; Politicians
  • San Benito County
  • Sierra Nevada Mountains
  • Stearly, Annie Gibson
  • Wash, Robert. Outline of Fresno County history
  • Winchell Family biography

IN ARCHIVAL STORAGE BOXES

Box 1

  • Agricultural machinery
  • Agricultural workers and unions
  • Agriculture
  • Agriculture - Education
  • Agriculture - History
  • Art - California
  • Aviation
  • Balch Camp
  • Bees
  • Bridges
  • Burkenroad Project
  • California - History
  • Canneries
  • Cemeteries
  • Central Valley Project
  • Churches, Religion
  • Citrus
  • Clubs and lodges
  • Coalinga
  • Colonies, Land Development
  • Communication
  • Cotton
  • Crimes and criminals
  • Crop reports
  • Dairy

Box 2

  • Dams (Non-Central Valley Project)
  • Disasters
  • English, June - Articles
  • Explorers
  • Farmers' organizations
  • Fauna
  • Fencing
  • Figs and dates
  • Flora
  • Flumes
  • Fresno, Calif. - Businesses
  • Fresno, Calif. - Historic houses
  • Fresno, Calif. - History
  • Fresno, Calif. - Water
  • Fresno City and County Historical Society
  • Fresno County
  • Fresno County Genealogical Sciety

Box 3

  • Fruit
  • Geology, Earthquakes
  • Gold mines and mining
  • Grains and beans
  • Grapes
  • Grazing
  • Health
  • Homestead, Land law terms
  • Hydroelectric
  • Kern County
  • Kings County
  • Kiwi
  • Lakes, rivers and creeks
  • Land grants
  • Livestock
  • Logging, Lumber
  • Madera County
  • Mariposa County
  • Medicine
  • Merced County

Box 4

  • Mining
  • Monterey
  • Music, Theatre
  • National Archives, San Bruno
  • Newspapers
  • North Fork
  • Nurseries
  • Nuts
  • Olives
  • Packers
  • Packing companies
  • Parades, Fairs, Holidays
  • Parks, National and local (excluding Yosemite)
  • Plant diseases
  • Political
  • Population
  • Post offices
  • Poultry
  • Power and power companies
  • Prohibition
  • Railroads
  • Raisins
  • Recreation
  • Resorts
  • Roads, Highways, Passes

Box 5

  • San Benito County
  • San Joaquin River
  • Sanger
  • Schools
  • Social life and customs
  • Soils
  • Sports
  • Stanislaus County
  • Stores, Trading posts
  • Street-railroads
  • Sugar
  • Trials
  • Transportation
  • Transportation - Water (Steamboats, riverboats, etc.)
  • Tulare County
  • U.S. Forest Service
  • Vital statistics
  • Wagon trains
  • Wars
  • Weather, Water resources
  • Wilderness
  • Wineries
  • Women
  • Yosemite

PLACE NAMES

Place names - Groups

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
    • Fresno City
    • Fresno County
  • G
  • H
  • I
    • Inyo/Mono Counties
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
    • Sierra Nevada Mountains
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • XYZ

ETHNIC

  • Armenian
  • Assyrian
  • Basque
  • Black
  • Chinese
  • Filipino
  • Hispanic
  • Indians
  • California Indian Journal
  • Japanese
  • Jewish
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian-German
  • Sikh
  • Yugoslavian

    SURNAMES, A-M

    Surnames - Groups

    • A J
      • Akers
    • B
      • Bernard
      • Blasingame
      • Brown
      • Bugg
    • C
    • D
      • Dusy
    • E
    • F
      • Finch
      • Firebaugh
    • G
    • H
      • Hazelton
      • Helm
      • Humphreys
    • I
    • J
    • K
      • Keyes
    • L
      • Lewis
    • M
      • Mc
      • McCubbin
      • McCubbin Papers
      • Muir

    SURNAMES, N-Z

    • N
      • Nichols
    • O
    • P
      • Peckinpah
    • Q
    • R
      • Ritter
    • S
      • Sanders
      • Savage
      • Shinn
      • Simpson
      • Snyder
      • Stearly
    • T
      • Thompson, Robert N.
      • Trimmer
      • Tully
    • U
    • V
    • W
      • Weldon
      • Wright
    • XYZ

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