Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Keene, F.
- Abstract:
- Photograph album created by F. Keene containing primarily photographs, but also postcards and ephemera, documenting a vacation to the Gray Eagle Lodge in Graeagle, California in 1923. Album also contains 20 loose photographs. The photographs show various lakes, rivers, and other natural features in the Feather River and Plumas National Forest region.
- Extent:
- 0.77 linear feet
- Language:
- English and Collection materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item, date]; Feather River and Gray Eagle Lodge photograph album, PC PA 059; [box number]; California Historical Society.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Photograph album created by F. Keene containing primarily photographs, and also postcards and ephemera, documenting a vacation to the Gray Eagle Lodge in Graeagle, California in 1923. Album also contains 20 loose photographs. The photographs and postcards show various lakes, rivers, and other natural features in the Feather River and Plumas National Forest region including Lily Lake, Smith Lake, Bear Lakes, Long Lake, Sardine Lake, Gold Lake; the Feather and Yuba Rivers; Gray Eagle Falls and Gray Eagle Creek; Feather River Canyon and Feather River Valley; Eureka Mines and Eureka Peak; Mt. Elwell, Downieville, Johnsville, Sierra Buttes, Gold Lake Camp. The photograph album contains a list of names of people who accompanied F. Keene on the trip. The names include: Anita Anderson, Elsie Brake, Amelia Green, Florence Jordan, Elsie Monte, Margaret Moysan, Regina Murray, Florence Rehfeld, Mervyn Silberstein, William Smith, Carrie Sproul, Hildegard Thalmann, Hilda Willmann, Selma Wolff.
- Acquisition information:
- Materials found in collection; provenance is unknown.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Feather River (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Outdoor recreation -- California, Northern -- Pictorial works
Summer resorts -- California -- Plumas County -- Pictorial works
Vacations -- California, Northern -- Pictorial works
Women travelers -- Pictorial works
Photograph albums
Ephemera
Postcards - Places:
- Graeagle (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Gray Eagle Lodge (Plumas County, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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California Historical Society collections have been transferred to Stanford University Libraries. Collections will be unavailable as Stanford accessions them and updates records. Please contact chscollection@stanford.edu with any inquiries.
- Terms of access:
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Materials in this collection, which were created in 1923, are in the public domain in the United States. Permission to publish or reproduce is not required.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item, date]; Feather River and Gray Eagle Lodge photograph album, PC PA 059; [box number]; California Historical Society.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022