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Manteca Medical Office Building
Historic Photography Grouping

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  1. 1938, Manteca, California. Near Manteca, California. November 1938. Farm Security Administration (FSA) tenant purchase client's herd. Dairy cows located on the Dimotakis family farm; bunkhouse in background was on the property when the family purchased the farm. The Dimotakis family farm was virtually self-sufficient and grew a variety of fruits: figs, apricots, peaches, loquats, dates, oranges, lemons, limes, mulberries, melons and grapes; vegetables and nuts: peas, beans, zucchini, avocados, olives, pecans, walnuts, almonds. It also included a functioning olive oil plant, dairy, and aviary, and livestock, and there was an outdoors wood-burning oven for bread baking; and they kept bees for gathering honey. Most weekends there was a social gathering around food and drink that often included a goat or lamb rotating on a spit. Creator: Dorothea Lange, photographer. (Source: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives, Library of Congress; Cathy Rundell, 2010; descendant of the Dimotakis family, owners of the farm in 1938.)

  2. 1920, Manteca, California. Western extension leaders observing Farm Bureau silo, Manteca, January 1920.  (Source: UC Cooperative Extension, San Joaquin County Collection.  UC Merced Library Archives and Special Collections and San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum)

  3. 1965-1969, Manteca, California. The Manteca Bulletin. Originally built in 1923 as the home of the South San Joaquin Irrigation District. The Murphy’s purchased it for the paper. (Source: Courtesy of the Manteca Historical Society Museum)

  4.  1911, Manteca, California, Hall Bldg. View of the Hall building with sign: M.B. Hooper, Hardware, groceries, drygoods; telephone pole in front, small wooden building in background.  (Source: Courtesy of the California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento, California)

  5. 1988, Manteca, California, Automobile Industry and Trade - Stockton: Main Highway Garage, Manteca. Photographer: Van Covert Martin. (Source: Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library)

  6. 1962, Manteca, California. The Manteca water tower. The Manteca water tower was built in 1962 and has since been a defining feature of the city. Although it has been out of use since 2007, it remains to be considered a historical landmark to the city. (Source: Beth Young, Regional photographer)

  7. 1950s, Manteca, California. Downtown Manteca. (Source: Courtesy of the Manteca Historical Society Museum)

  8. 1990, Manteca, California. Doctor’s Hospital of Manteca. Originally built 1962 (Source: Courtesy of the Manteca Historical Society Museum)

  9. 1940s, Manteca, California. Kraft Cheese Co., Manteca, California # C4212. View of Kraft Cheese Company factory in Manteca. (Source: Courtesy of the California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento, California)

  10. 1916-1996, Manteca, California. Spreckels Honey-Dew Sugar factory (Source: Courtesy of the Manteca Historical Society Museum)

  11. 1994, Manteca, California. Milo Candini, 1917-1998 – Manteca's Major League Pitcher Inducted in Manteca Hall of Fame. 16-1996. (Source: Courtesy of the Manteca Historical Society Museum)

  12. 1942, Manteca, California. Truck loaded with sugar beets unloading a sugar factory with sign, "Spreckels Honey-Dew Sugar". Floyd Halleck Higgins photographs of Mexican sugar beet workers: 1942. Author: Higgins, Floyd Halleck, 1886-1975, Photographer. (Source: UC Davis Library, Special Collections)  

  13. 1922, Manteca, California. F. B. Wood stave silo, M. E. Christiansen ranch.  (Source: UC Cooperative Extension, San Joaquin County Collection.  UC Merced Library Archives and Special Collections and San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum)  

  14. Early 1900-1910, Manteca, California, Cowell Bldg. Manteca Cal. # 129. View of brick building in Lodi, San Joaquin County. The First State Bank of Manteca is seen on the ground floor. A sign for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is seen on top of building. In E. F. Mueller Postcard Collection (Source: Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library).

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