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Ethel Richardson Allen photograph album

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Description: A photograph album with 101 snapshots depicting outings taken from 1920-1923, chiefly in Southern California and on trips to the High Sierra, Hawaii, and New York City, compiled by California adult education leader Ethel Richardson Allen (1888-1966). Many of the images depict automobile and camping trips and outdoor recreation activities.
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Production date: 1920-1923.
Call number: photCL 340
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Charlton H. Lewis (Priscilla Crosby Allen Lewis), 1988 November 18.
Dimensions: images chiefly 9 x 15 cm (3 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.) and 15 x 9 cm (5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.), album pages 28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Associated people: Allen, Ethel Richardson,; Lewis, Priscilla Crosby Allen,
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Photograph album of Southern California

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