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Hooker family papers, 1783-1951.
BANC MSS 77/1 cBANC MSS 77/1 cLOCAL
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Title:

Hooker family papers, 1783-1951

Creator/Contributor:

Hooker, Katharine, 1849-

Creator/Contributor:

Hooker, Marian O. (Marian Osgood), 1875-1968

Creator/Contributor:

Porter, Bruce, 1865-1953, Correspondent

Creator/Contributor:

James, Alice., Correspondent

Creator/Contributor:

Porter, Margaret James., Correspondent

Creator/Contributor:

Whitney, J. D. (Josiah Dwight), 1819-1896, Correspondent

Creator/Contributor:

Neylan, John Francis, 1885-1960, Correspondent

Creator/Contributor:

Gannett, Henry, 1846-1914, Correspondent

Creator/Contributor:

Hittell, Theodore Henry, 1830-1917, Correspondent

Creator/Contributor:

Wilstach, Paul, 1870-1952

Creator/Contributor:

Putnam, Israel W. (Israel Warburton), 1786-1868

Creator/Contributor:

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

Creator/Contributor:

Danvers Historical Society

Creator/Contributor:

Online Archive of California

Abstract:

Consists of family correspondence, including the correspondence of Katherine Putnam Hooker and Marian Osgood Hooker with Alice James, William Dean Howells, and Theodore H. Hittell. Family papers include early business papers, notes on family history, and accounts of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco. Also included are the diaries, writings and sermons of Israel W. Putnam in his work for the First Church, Middleboro, Massachusetts, diaries of Samuel W. Osgood and John D. Hooker, and the writings of E.W. Hooker and other family members, and A history of the Putnam family, by Eben Putnam and publications of the Danvers Historical Society.

Date:

1783 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca -- n-us-ma
Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco
Fires -- California -- San Francisco
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Personal narratives
Tremblements de terre -- Californie -- San Francisco
Incendies -- Californie -- San Francisco
Tremblement de terre de San Francisco, Calif., 1906 -- Récits personnels
Earthquakes
Fires
California
California -- San Francisco
First Congregational Church (Middleboro, Mass.)
First Congregational Church (Middleboro, Mass.)

Note:

Selected accounts of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire available in digital format: accessible through Online Archive of California.
Photographs and drawings transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1977.006-.008--PIC and 1977.093--A).

Type:

family papers.
Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

print
5 boxes (2.0 linear ft.)
Box 1: Correspondence, A-Po. Box 2: Correspondence, Pu-W, miscellaneous family papers, accounts of San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906. Box 3: Writings by Israel W. Putnam. Box 4: Writings by Israel W. Putnam, diaries of Samuel Osgood and John Daggett Hooker, writings by E.W. Putnam. Box 5: Putnam family history, by Eben Putnam, Danvers Historical Society publications

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 77/1 c
BANC MSS 77/1 cLOCAL

Origin:

California

Related Item:

History of the Putnam family : Putnam, Eben, : 1868-1933
History of the Putnam family