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Frona Wait Colburn Collection, 1900-1942.
08/23/96 T02/28/91 T02/21/91 T
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Title:
Frona Wait Colburn Collection, 1900-1942Creator/Contributor:
Colburn, Frona Eunice Wait Smith, 1859-1946, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Chamberlain, Arthur H.Creator/Contributor:
Hadley, Grace T.Creator/Contributor:
Holliday, CarlCreator/Contributor:
Ryan, Marah Ellis, 1866-1934Abstract:
Correspondence, notes and drafts, radio scripts, scrapbook.
Date:
1900 (issued)Subject:
Book collecting -- CaliforniaPageants -- California
Printing -- History
San Francisco Book Fair
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Not restricted. Please credit California State Library.
Journalist. The first newspaper woman on the San Francisco Examiner. She also worked for the San Francisco Call and the Chronicle.
She was an author, lecturer, and conducted a radio broadcast. She was the model for Jack London's heroine in his first novel,
"A Daughter of the Snows." She established the San Francisco Book Fair.
CSL Manuscript Summary Sheets
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print
10
Language:
English
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CaliforniaCopyright Note:
Not restricted. Please credit California State Library.