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Title: Calle de Alvarado Scrapbook
Dates: 1937-1938
Collection Number: ARC 549
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 item; 51 x 34 cm.
Repository:
Monterey Public Library
Monterey, California 93940
Abstract: Consists of a scrapbook containing 24 articles under the column title, "Calle de Alvarado," published in the Monterey Trader
from Dec. 3, 1937 to July 8, 1938.
Language of Material: English
Access by appointment only; contact Local History Librarian or designated staff.
Reproduction by Local History Librarian or other designated staff; may be restricted due to condition of the materials.
[Identification of item]. Calle de Alvarado Scrapbook. Collection Number: ARC 549. Monterey Public Library
Biography/Administrative History
Antoinette Guernsey Gay (ca. 1894-1981) grew up in Pacific Grove. She became a social worker for the Child Welfare Society
in New York City; then returned to Pacific Grove after World War I. She taught kindergarten, and in 1925 became a reporter
for the [Monterey] Peninsula Daily Herald. In 1933, she and her husband Milus Gay, also a Herald reporter, started the weekly
newspaper; The Monterey Trader, for which she later wrote the "Calle de Alvarado" and a history of the Presidio of Monterey
for the city of Monterey.
Scope and Content of Collection
Organized into series of weekly newspaper articles; Arranged chronologically.
Antoinette Guernsey Gay
Monterey Trader
Monterey, California
Carmel, California
Newspaper Columns
Clippings
Scrapbooks
Calle de Alvarado