Land speculation and irrigation development in the Sacramento Valley, 1905-1957 : oral history transcript / Charles F. and Rebecca T. Lambert ; tape recorded interview conducted February-March, 1957 by Willa K. Baum. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, California,

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Land speculation and irrigation development in the Sacramento Valley, 1905-1957 : oral history transcript / Charles F. and Rebecca T. Lambert ; tape recorded interview conducted February-March, 1957 by Willa K. Baum. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1957 : and related material, 1957.

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With signed statement of rights, portrait photograph and memorial tribute from the Colusi County Historical Society, added. Notes his and his wife's family backgrounds; history of irrigation and land companies in the Sacramento Valley; the rice boom; the Irrigation Districts Association; public utility companies; water districts.

Transcript : [9], 376 leaves ; 28 cm. + related material.Copies : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 571:5) and positive.

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Lambert, Charles Franklin, 1887-1959.

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Lambert, Rebecca B.

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Purkitt family.

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Regional Cultural History Project (University of California, Berkeley)

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Baum, Willa K.

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Willa Klug Baum was a nationally prominent oral historian and long-time director of the Regional Oral History Office at the Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley. She was born in Chicago in 1926, and grew up in Europe and Ramona, California. She graduated from Whittier College, but work and family obligations kept her from completing her Ph.D. in history at Berkeley. Instead Baum joined ROHO as an editor and interviewer, and became head of the program in 1958. During her years as director over 1,600 i...