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Rare Books
The old Oregon trail
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
This collection contains photographs by historian Ralph P. Bieber documenting the central overland route to California as it appeared in the 1950s. Bieber visited the sites in conjunction with a project to record every aspect of the trails and circumstances associated with the migration of people to California during the Gold Rush years and subsequently. The images document the route through Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and California. Bieber organized and annotated the photographs himself, and his original order, based primarily on print size, has been maintained. Additionally, Bieber created photographic categories such as "Donner Party Sites," "Gold Discovery Sites," and "Sites associated with John C. Frémont." Note that Bieber did not arrange the photographs geographically.
photCL 469
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Manuscripts
Land Grant to Walter Pomeroy for lot no. five, block no. six on Water Street in Oregon City, Oregon. Signed and with an embossed red paper seal by President William McKinley, Secretary F. M. McKean and the Recorder of the General Land Office on September 13, 1900. The Land grant was recorded in the State of Oregon, County of Clackamas on September 29, 1900 with blind embossed seal of Clackamas County.
mssHM 16949
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Rare Books
33136 ('25th Congress, 3rd session, no. 101.', 'no. 301.')
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Rare Books
Crater Lake seems to be missing. Sticker: Dr4ed Lockley Books. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Stamp: Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.
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