Finding Aid to the Feather River and Gray Eagle Lodge Photograph Album PC PA 059

Jaime Henderson
California Historical Society
July 2019
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
reference@calhist.org


Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: California Historical Society
Title: Feather River and Gray Eagle Lodge Photograph Album
Creator: Keene, F.
Identifier/Call Number: PC PA 059
Physical Description: 0.77 linear feet
Date: 1923
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.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English.

Scope and Content

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.

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

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.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials found in collection; provenance is unknown.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item, date]; Feather River and Gray Eagle Lodge photograph album, PC PA 059; [box number]; California Historical Society.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Feather River (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Graeagle (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Gray Eagle Lodge (Plumas County, 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