Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Altrocchi (Julia Cooley) Poetry Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1908-1974
Collection number: Mss115
Creator:
Hugh Hayes
Extent: 0.5 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Altrocchi (Julia Cooley) Poetry Collection, Mss115,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Access Points
personal name
Altrocchi, Julia Cooley (1893-1972)
subject
Authors, American -California -Correspondence
subject
California -Poetry
subject
West (U.S.) -Literatures
subject
California -Description and travel -1869-1950
Biography
Julia Cooley Altrocchi (1893-1972), author and poet, resided in Berkeley, Calif. upon
graduation from Vassar College. She was married to Rudolph Altrocchi, Professor of
Italian at the University of California. Her best known work is Snow Covered Wagons
(1936), a story-in-verse of the Donner Party Expedition. Other works include The Old
California Trail (1945), and Spectacular San Franciscans (1949). She was an honorary
member of the Ina Coolbrith Circle, San Francisco, the Browning Society of San Francisco,
and Poets of the Pacific.
Scope and Content
The Altrocchi Collection consists of books, pamphlets, correspondence, and miscellaneous
papers.