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The question of hope : photographs in Western Oregon
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Anonymous letter concerning the Oregon Question
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Anonymous letter concerning the Oregon Question
Manuscripts
This manuscript, intended for publication in the New York Herald, discusses the Oregon Question.
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Hope Ranch: essay
Manuscripts
This one-page essay, by an unknown author, covers the history of Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara County, California.
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West 1st Street from Flower Street to Hope Street
Visual Materials
Apartments along the south side of West 1st Street. The area at left and in the background across Hope Street from the Lima Apartments has been cleared. At the intersection, there is a fire alarm box mounted to the utility pole next to the fire hydrant.
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Western Journey photograph album and travel narrative
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A volume of photographs accompanied by a typescript travel narrative by Thomas Recknagel, a Cornell University undergraduate, documenting his travels by automobile and railroad in the summer of 1938. The bound volume is titled "Western Journey" and begins with snapshots taken during a train trip from Ithaca, New York, through Chicago, to San Francisco, where Recknagel met his parents and family friends to travel by car. They headed north through Oregon to British Columbia, where their trip included a cricket match in Vancouver; Victoria; a boat trip around the Gulf Islands; and a visit to the University of British Columbia, where Arthur Recknagel had taken a visiting lecturer position. The group took a return train trip through the Rocky Mountains, the Great Lakes, and across Canada to Port McNicoll, Ontario. There are two appendices of photographs from Recknagel's parents' trip in the beginning of the year, with several snapshots of Yosemite. The back of the volume also has 20 commercial photographs (3.5 x 5-inches) of Vancouver and the Fraser River area in British Columbia. Notable in the album are a series of photographs and narrative of the rescue of a man who had attempted suicide by jumping into the sea in San Francisco.
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6th Street and Hope Street
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The Acacia Hotel, 708 West 6th Street, offered temporary apartments. Looking east on 6th Street toward the intersection of Hope Street. The 1947 General Petroleum Building is at the far right. The Acacia Hotel is at the southwest corner of 6th and Hope Streets.
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