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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Anonymous letter regarding trip to Yosemite National Park
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Manuscripts
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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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Manuscripts
This account of a four-person hiking trip in Yosemite National Park and extended trips into the Sierra Nevada high country in the summer of 1916, includes approximately 130 photographs and extensive manuscript descriptions, written by Dorothy Willard. The photographs follow the narrative and capture the scenery of the region and the members of the hiking party engaged in their excursions including hiking, setting up camp, fishing, and making meals.
mssHM 83498
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Manuscripts
This lecture details a trip the British speaker took to the United States and Canada in 1877 (the speaker's name is unknown). His travel companion for some of the trip was Reverend Thomas Harwood Pattison who would become the Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Hartford, Conn. The trip started in New York City after a voyage from Liverpool. He and Pattison traveled throughout New England and Canada, making stops in Boston, Providence, Poughkeepsie, Albany, Saratoga, Montreal, Toronto, and Niagara Falls. In Johnsbury, Vermont they heard a talk by Henry Ward Beecher. The trip then took them to Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and Salt Lake City; while in Kansas City, Pattison returns to England . The speaker describes in detail the Rocky Mountains and the canyons of Utah. While in Salt Lake City he attends a Mormon service and describes the Tabernacle and the Mormon people in attendance. He then crossed the Sierra Nevadas and stopped in Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco and Yosemite. On his train trip to San Francisco, he met a group of American Indians, whom he describes in detail as well as some men of "questionable character." His last stop, before returning to New York City, is at the Mammoth Caves in Kentucky. The speaker, throughout the lecture, makes comments on "Americans," the people he met along the way, the landscapes he saw, and the events he attended (church services, fairs).
mssHM 71164
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Visual Materials
An album with 80 photographs of Yosemite National Park in California showing waterfalls, peaks, rock formations, and hotels. 55 photographs were taken by John Miller Hoffman and show the Wawona Hotel, Chilnualna Falls, Mariposa Grove, Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley, El Capitan, Half Dome, Mirror Lake, and Stoneman House. There are a few photographs of a group of seven men and four women, one near the top of Nevada Falls and another around a tall cairn. 25 of the photographs were taken by George Fiske and show Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, El Capitan, Cathedral Spires, and Sentinel Rock, and Barnard's hotel.
photCL 81
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Manuscripts
The collection is made up of 59 ephemera items related to John Muir including pamphlets, brochures, newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, programs, poetry, and copies of Muir's writings and sketches. The material was collected by J. Marshall Watkins while he was researching John Muir. Authors include Ed Ainsworth, William Frederic Badé, Francis M. Fultz, Herbert W. Gleason, Bailey Millard, John Muir, and J. Marshall Watkins. Other subjects include Muir's conservation work in California including his involvement with the Hetch Hetchy Valley, Kings Canyon National Park, and Yosemite National Park. There is one pamphlet entitled "Redwood Mountain," published by the John Muir Association as well as a leaflet printed by the California Conservation Council regarding the life of John Muir. Many of the brochures are for events related to John Muir such as "John Muir Day" in San Francisco in 1939, a dedication of a Muir memorial park in Wisconsin, and a lecture entitled "John Muir Trails." Also included are offprints and flyers concerning the proposed John Muir-Kings Canyon National Park, and nine color reproductions of scenes in Yosemite National Park.
mssHM 66491
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In this letter, written from New Orleans, Drey describes a trip he took to Yosemite National Park when he lived in California. He also comments on his social life in New Orleans as well as the African Americans he sees in town. Drey also describes a religious service he observed at an African American church in New Orleans.
mssHM 67918
Manuscripts
Whittier family in a car driving through Wawona Tree, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park.
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