This document is intended as a guide to data entry and descriptive cataloging for Huntington Library digital projects using CONTENTdm software. It will be updated as modifications in the software and/or metadata schema necessitate.
Founded by members of the Bixby and Flint families and their business partner, I. W. Hellman, in 1888, the Alamitos Land Company was first organized as a land sale company during the real estate boom of Southern California in mid 1880s. The company...
Sespe is the name given to the area in the Santa Clara Valley of Ventura County near modern day Fillmore, California by indigenous inhabitants, allegedly by a tribe of that name. The first land owner of European descent was Carlos Antonio Carrillo....
Morris B. Parker grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and spent his summers in Penn Yan, New York. His father purchased the South Homestake located in White Oaks, New Mexico in 1879 and the family moved there in the summer of 1882. He went back to New...