Describes various types of planned villages and provides examples of features in such communities.

First part of a memorandum of meeting with NI Industries, Inc. regarding the Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant, CA.

First part of a memorandum of meeting with NI Industries, Inc. regarding the Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant, CA.

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over manganese deposits of Santa Clara and Stanislaus Counties. As stated in the introduction, "the geology is outlined, ore deposits are described and work performed by the Bureau of Mines is covered in detail and supplemented by assay maps and figures" (p. 1). This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.

Interview with Jerome D. Fox, an OS2U Kingfisher gunner aboard the cruiser USS Detroit in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The interview includes Fox's personal experiences about childhood on a ranch in West Texas, enlisting in the Navy, boot camp at San Diego, California, aerial gunner school at Naval Air Station, Modesto, California, his assignment to the OS2U crew aboard the USS Detroit, patrol duty in the Aleutian Islands, bombardment of the Kurile Islands, South American patrol, his assignment to the Central Pacific Theater as an escort for the Tanker Division in refueling carrier battle groups, kamikaze attacks, operations off Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, and his postwar activities.

From Introduction: "The present report is based on 10 weeks of field work from mid-November 1940 until late January 1941, and 4 days in May 1941. An area of 5 1/2 square miles in and about Del Puerto Canyon was mapped on a scale of 600 feet to 1 inch, and two small areas in the vicinity of the Adobe Canyon and Black Bart chromite mines were mapped on a scale of 200 feet to 1 inch."

Letter discussing how he broke his jaw in two places while he was unloading grain with rolling nets. Mentions medical treatment. Also includes original envelope with note saying from Sam E. Wanford Modesto,California received September 6, 1839.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Tanaguchi. Tanaguchi was a Japanese-American internee at the Gila River Camp in Arizona during World War II. At 19 years old, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Tanaguchi became a part of the internment program of the War Relocation Authority. He provides detail of life growing up in Stockton, California before December 7, 1941 and after, and experiences of bigotry and racism among his peers. He provides detail of his father being in the Justice Department internment group. He served as the dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, and at Rice University in Houston. He designed an addition to the Nimitz Museum.

Article exploring the hypothesis that near-death experiencers (NDErs) assign the meaning of the NDE by using causal (effect) and semantic (affect) attributions. To test this hypothesis, 32 spontaneous verbal accounts of NDEs were analyzed.

Article exploring near-death experiences and attribution theory, which focuses on how information is used to create causal inferences and answer causal questions. The finding that near-death experiencers (NDErs) rarely describe unknown events, characters, or objects suggests that NDErs make attributions to answer why these experiences occurred. Examining various descriptions of NDEs demonstrates how attribution theory explains individuals' descriptions of their NDEs.

Second part of a memorandum of meeting with NI Industries, Inc. regarding the Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant, CA including two presentations made by NI Industries (PowerPoint slides).

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two Texans that were killed in a high speed traffic accident in Modesto, California.

Letter from A. S. Milikien to Thos. L. James discussing information found on planting and growing Lima beans in the area with caution.

A photograph negative showing Santa Fe (ATSF) 3713, 4-8-2, Riverback, CA

A photograph postcard showing the Southern Pacific (SP) 4100, 4-8-8-2, cab forward, on freight train 1-814, approaching Woodford, CA. Locomotives 4113 and 4115 helping in train, 67 cars, 25 mph.

A photograph print showing Santa Fe (ATSF) 725, 2-8-0, (Dickson) class 709, Riverbank, CA. Retired 1940.

A photograph print showing Santa Fe (ATSF) 1263, 4-6-2, Riverbank, CA.

A photograph negative showing the Santa Fe (ATSF) 725, 2-8-0, Riverbank, CA. Scrapped in 1940.

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes design with business name and text reading: "Southern Pacific Company, Sunset Ogden & Shasta Routes"; "Most of this Company's freight cars are built to carry twenty to twenty-five tons of weight. Never load less than 12 tons. If shippers load to weight capacity, which is plainly marked on sides of car, it will do much to obviate delay in furnishing cars for loading and prevent detention in transit. Do not load to exceed weight capacity."