Content Description

The Elisha Palmer Papers Collection largely consists of legal documents (deeds, mortgages, a land patent signed by President Woodrow Wilson, lease agreements and tax records), correspondence (oil and land related). The collection also contains a great deal of his records regarding his citrus crops going back to the mid-1920s (harvest receipts and growers association bulletins) and his oil interests maps and revenues from his property dating back to the late teens).

Acquisition Type

Gift

Provenance

The collection came to the archive on January 19, 1993, from Tom Curlee of Fullerton who had received five boxes documents from Mrs. Betty Palmer, who had been storing them.

Restrictions Apply

No