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Wallace G. Macgregor papers, 1890-1937.
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Wallace G. Macgregor papers, 1890-1937Creator/Contributor:
Macgregor, Wallace G., 1867-, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Macgregor, Lucy Wyman, 1866-, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Macgregor, Wallace Gibbs, 1893-1983, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Edson, Alice Macgregor, 1897-1970, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Online Archive of CaliforniaAbstract:
Chiefly contains letters from Wallace G. Macgregor to his family in East Braintree, Massachusetts, concerning his activities
as a chemist, working first in the gold mines of Big Bug, Arizona, and later traveling as a consultant to mines in Nevada
and other places. Macgregor's letters also include detailed descriptions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, and
mention the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition. Later letters also include notes written by Lucy and their children.
Also includes Wallace Macgregor's diaries for 1896 and 1902, plus a family genealogy, a few blueprints, and miscellaneous
printed material concerning mining.
Date:
1890 (issued)Subject:
n-us-az -- n-us-nv -- n-us-caMacgregor, Wallace G -- 1867- -- Archives
Macgregor, Wallace G -- 1867- -- Diaries
Macgregor, Lucy Wyman -- 1866- -- Correspondence
Macgregor, Wallace Gibbs -- 1893-1983 -- Correspondence
Edson, Alice Macgregor -- 1897-1970 -- Correspondence
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Mining engineers -- California
Gold mines and mining -- Arizona
Gold mines and mining -- Nevada
Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Personal narratives
Big Bug (Ariz.)
Note:
Eleven letters describing the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire: Also available in digital format: accessible through
the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire website.
Wallace G. Macgregor papers, BANC MSS 97/49 cp, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1997.075--PIC).
Wallace Macgregor was born on January 8, 1867 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On July 16, 1891, he was married to Lucy Wyman
Gibbs (born January 28, 1866 in Chelsea, Massachusetts) in Braintree, Massachusetts. They moved to California, where Macgregor
worked as a mining engineer, eventually settling in Berkeley, California. They had two children, Wallace Gibbs Macgregor (1893-1983)
and Alice Macgregor Edson (1897-1970).
In English.
Type:
Blueprints.Genealogies.
Physical Description:
print
6.45 (16 4
Language:
English
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http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/earthquakeandfire/index2.html