ABOUT THE ROWLAND CARD FILES The card files are arranged in ten file boxes and are divided according to subject: People = Boxes A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4, A-5, and A-6 Some images of the Boxes and images from the Cards can be seen at other parts of this Web Site: Eight of the boxes are red and contain 3x5-inch cards. The cards in boxes A-1 through A-5 describe people; the cards in boxes B-1, B-2, and B-3 describe selected subjects ranging from Banks to Taxes and including such diverse topics as Land Grants, County Roads, Railroads, and Padrones. The remaining two boxes contain much larger cards [ca. 3 x 10-inches]. Box A-6 contains cards that describe people, mostly late in the alphabet from M through Z. Many of the entries on these cards have been crossed out in pencil, presumably as the information was transferred at a later time to smaller cards in the red boxes. The Transcribers have included the crossed-out information. Box C, the other box of large cards, includes transcripts of the Pre-Statehood Documents ... Leon Rowland's own translations. [Researchers may wish to compare his translations with Starr Gurcke's California pre-statehood documents relating to Santa Cruz County, 1790-1850. Spec Coll MS105 LIB USE ONLY (English translation of Spanish documents by Starr Pait Gurcke]. The Database This database contains the full text of ten boxes of cards in the Leon Rowland Card Files. Fonts and other Notations courier = font used by Transcribers to simulate a typewriter. (The information on the cards is typewritten.) Script = font used by Transcribers to indicate hand-written notations in ink or pencil. (Most of these notations were made by Leon Rowland or his wife, Jeannette. Other notations may include the initials of a contributor, such as MP for Marion Pokriots or SS or sds for Stanley D. Stevens.) Times = font used by Transcribers to indicate a newspaper article pasted onto the card. (Frequently, the article was from the Riptide in which a series of biographies are attributed to Thomas L. McHugh.) [-Ed.] = text within square brackets supplied by Transcribers. [sic] = Transcribers’ note to indicate entry appears exactly as in the original. [photos of cards showing hand-written notations] Abbreviations Used on Cards (abbreviations.pdf) Rowland used a fairly consistent set of abbreviations. These abbreviations are listed separately and can be accessed at Abbreviations. Card Categories (categories.pdf) Each box is subdivided into sections, People and Subjects, and each record in the database includes the corresponding Category; e.g., People- Bachelder to Bagnall [box] A-1 [cards] 243...256 ; or Lime Kilns & Cement Industry [box] B-2 [cards] 379...387. Index (index.pdf) An index to the combined boxes A-1, A-2 and B-1 is complete and can be accessed at Index. The index is also organized in separate files here, letter-by-letter of the alphabet: A-W, and one file for XYZ. Spanish (spanish.pdf) Leon Rowland transcribed much of the material on cards directly from the Spanish. This is particularly true of the cards in Box C. These definitions can be accessed at Spanish. |
