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Descriptive Summary

Title:
Anna Ryder Dickey Collection, 1889-2000

Collection number:
213

Creator:
Dickey, Anna Ryder 1863-1928

Extent:
2 photo albums,
1 document box,
10 books

Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division

Los Angeles, California 90095-1490

Abstract:
This collection contains photographs (albums and separates), ephemera, and inscribed books documenting the friendship between Anna Ryder Dickey and celebrated naturalist and wilderness conservationist, John Muir. The albums document two Sierra Club nature trips that Muir, Mrs. Dickey, her adolescent son, Donald R. Dickey, and others took to Yosemite National Park, and Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks, in 1896 and 1902 respectively. Of special note are six pictorialist style presentation photographs of John Muir alone or with Mrs. Dickey, taken by the Pasadena photographer Kraig. The book inscriptions, letters, and notes provide further proof of the Muir-Dickey friendship, while the books themselves, newspaper clippings, and magazine extracts highlight aspects of Muir's work, philosophy, and life story.

Physical location:
History and Special Collections Division, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Collection materials in English

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