Papers, 1836-1961.

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Papers, 1836-1961.

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Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, journals, manuscripts, memorabilia, books, scrapbooks, and printed materials related to the Powell family. The bulk is made up of the papers and correspondence of George Harold Powell, horticulturist and general manager of the California Fruit Exchange (1912-22) and his wife, Gertrude Clark Powell. Also includes the papers of Harold Haines Clark, brother of Gertrude Clark Powell, who was associated with the Link Belt Company. The papers of the Lawrence and Haines families are related to the Clark family and these family papers include a copy of George Fox's Journal (1694) and some material about and from Elizabeth Powell Bond, dean of Swarthmore College. Also autographed photographs of Herbert Hoover and a photo album of the members of the US Food Administration, Division of Perishable Foods, 1917-19.

38 boxes (19 linear ft.)4 oversize boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7400168

University of California, Los Angeles

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Fox, George, 1624-1691

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George Fox (July 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual, uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, performing hundreds of healings, and often being persecuted by ...

Clark, Harold Haines, 1878-1964

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California Fruit Growers Exchange

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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Bond, Elizabeth Powell, 1841-1926

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Quaker Dean of Swarthmore College. Born in Dutchess County, NY, Elizabeth Macy Powell married Henry Herrick Bond in 1872. Her husband died in 1881, leaving her with a young son. After serving for four years as Matron of Swarthmore College, Elizabeth Powell Bond was appointed as its Dean in 1890; she retired in 1906. From the description of Papers, 1856-1958. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 28177160 ...

Powell, Harold Clark, 1900-1938

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Powell family.

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George Harold Powell was born in 1872 in Ghent, NY, on Feb. 8, 1872; BS (1895) and MS (1896), Agriculture, Cornell; pomologist, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D.C., 1901-1911; USDA sent him to CA in 1904 to study citrus fruits rotting in transit; general manager, California Fruit Exchange (today known as Sunkist Growers), 1912; married Gertrude Eliza Clark (1870-1957) on July 1, 1896; they had three sons, Harold Clark Powell (1900-1938), George Townsend Powell (1901-1955), and Lawrence Cl...

Powell, George Harold

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George Harold Powell (1872-1922)received B.S. and M.S. degrees in agriculture from Cornell University in 1895 and 1896, and worked as the pomologist in charge of fruit storage and transportation investigations for the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1904-1906. In 1911 he served as secretary and manager of the Citrus Protective League of California and from 1912-1922 was general manager of the California Fruit Growers Exchange (later Sunkist Growers, Inc.). In addition to various articles on ...

Powell, Gertrude Eliza Clark, 1870-1957

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