Inside Berry News Co. in 1940.
Books for Sale
The Leonard "Duke" Davis Collection
High School teacher turned historian, Leonard “Duke” Davis has been instrumental in documenting Roseville history. A founding member of the Roseville Historical Society, Duke was active until just recently when his health prevented his further involvement. We at the museum are eternally grateful for his work and continue to sell his books to the public for their enjoyment and knowledge about local history. The society is proud to have partnered with him on many of his works and have been the beneficiary of his detailed research as a result. Duke’s books are detailed here on our website and you can peruse them in person at the museum.
"Roseville's Police Story"
"Roseville's Police Story"
By Leonard M. Davis
The author introduces his book with the old axiom: "'From small acorns big oak trees grow" and Davis continues that "certainly applies to Roseville's police department, which over the years has evolved from a small poorly trained, poorly equipped department to one of the most professionally trained, best equipped police departments in Northern California."
Davis thinks the reader "will enjoy comparing the small unsophisticated police department of yesteryear, with today's high tech, state of the art department that we civilians too often take for granted."