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Manuscripts
1 item: 21-pp. transcript of interview with Camilla Chandler Frost, 1/21/1980. Subjects include: her childhood and youth in Sierra Madre ; her interest in athletics and horseback riding ; acquaintance with the Herbert Hoover, Jr. family ; her memories of attending Polytechnic School in Pasadena and Anoakia in Arcadia ; her memories of the types of chores she and her brother Otis were expected to take care of around the home and property ; she attends Wellesley College (p. 12 - 13) ; expectations people had of her because she was "a Chandler" ; circa 1940s - "You didn't have rebellious youth as we've had in later eras....You were expected to do certain things and you did them" ; more.
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