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California--Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of the Nichols-Shurtleff family, 1780-1953 (inclusive), 1850-1940 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: A-170
Overview:

Correspondence and diaries of the Nichols and Shurtleff families from New England.

Papers of the Palache family, 1839-2004 (inclusive), 1895-1988 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 528
Overview:

Papers of mineralogist Charles Palache, his wife Helen (Markham), and their three daughters; Jeannette (Palache) Barker, a teacher; Mary (Palache) Gregory, an architect; and Alice (Palache) Jones, a banker.

Photographs of Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1896-1941

Collection Identifier: PC 60
Overview:

Photographs of Jessie Tarbox Beals, first American woman photojournalist.

Autobiography of Sarah Ann Walker, 1925

Collection Identifier: A/W184
Overview:

Account of Sarah Ann Walker's early life, culminating in her journey from Rhode Island to California in 1861 to join her husband. Description of her father's experiences mining for gold in California are also included.