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Photograph Album Depicting a Fishing Trip in the California-Oregon Mountains and Auto Dealership Business
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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Title: Photo Album Depicting a Fishing Trip in the California-Oregon Mountains and Auto Dealership Business
Identifier/Call Number: MC358
Physical Description:
1 item
Post-binder oblong quarto photo album with 64 unpaginated pages, on thick black paper stock (20 with photos mounted). Holds
42 original photographs sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 3.5 x 5.75 in., most with neat annotations in white ink. Contemporary
embossed flexible black board post-binder, punch-sewn at gutter margin with gold silk braid.
Date: 1931
Abstract: Photo album depicting the travels and business of Earl Smith, an up-and-coming Modesto, California Chevrolet dealership owner
in 1931.
Physical Location: Researchers should contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.
Language of Material:
English
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Photo album with 42 original photographs depicting a fishing trip in the California-Oregon mountains, the Walter Hinton Exchange
Club Tour to Modesto in 1931, the Angels Camp Jumping Frog Jubilee, and several of the Smith Evens Chevrolet dealership in
Modesto, California. Walter Hinton (1888-1981) is featured in some photographs. Hinton was a Navy pilot of a four-engine Navy-Curtiss
Flying Boat which was the first plane to cross the Atlantic in 1919, landing in Portugal.
Collection is open for research.
Michelle Trujillo created this finding aid with information supplied by Zephyr Used and Rare Books.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Zephyr Used and Rare Books, 2023.
[Identification of item], Photograph Album Depicting a Fishing Trip in the California-Oregon Mountains and Auto Dealership
Business, MC358, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.
All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for permission
to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the physical items. It is not intended to
include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
California, Northern -- History -- Pictorial works
Oregon--Description and travel
Camping -- Pictorial works
Fishing -- Pictorial works
Automobile dealers