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Descriptive Summary
Title:
Esther Smith scrapbooks of a bus tour of the American West
Date:
1935
Collection Number:
MS-S028
Creator:
Smith, Esther.
Extent:
0.8 linear feet
(2 boxes)
Languages:
The collection is in English.
Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Abstract:
This collection comprises three scrapbooks and a manuscript journal of Esther Smith, a 23-year-old high school teacher, documenting her three-month bus tour of the American West in 1935. The scrapbooks contain 62 pamphlets, 76 photographs (many with descriptive captions), and 85 postcards, as well as other items such as newspaper clippings, dried flowers, tokens, and tickets. The California portion of the tour included stops in San Francisco, Yosemite, Los Angeles, and San Juan Capistrano.
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