Amy Deeter California Hiking Clubs scrapbooks
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Title: Amy Deeter California Hiking Clubs scrapbooks
Dates: 1924-1959
Collection Number: SFH 502
Creator/Collector:
Deeter, Amy F., 1892-1968
Extent: (2 pamphlet boxes) 11 folders
Repository:
San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco History Center
San Francisco, California 94102
Abstract: Scrapbooks created by a Contra Costa Hills Club and Sierra Club member
Language of Material: English
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Biography/Administrative History
Amy Deeter was born in Michigan. She married Conrad Askerberg of Detroit in 1914; the couple divorced in San Francisco in
1927. Deeter worked as a stenographer in San Francisco, and hitchhiked from San Francisco to Yosemite and back with her friend
Norah Roberts in 1924. Roberts married Thomas F. Maddick, and Amy and Norah remained friends until Amy's death. Deeter was
a storyteller, and an officer of the Golden Gate Story League in San Francisco during the time she created these scrapbooks.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection includes eleven scrapbooks created by Deeter, a member of several organizations. The earliest material is
her typewritten account of hitchhiking around California with her friend Norah Roberts, 1924. There is a gap until 1936,
when she was affiliated with the Contra Costa Hills Club (CCHC), which was focused on preserving open space in the East Bay
and on hiking. Scrapbooks include Deeter's detailed typewritten accounts of various excursions, along with correspondence,
photographs, Sierra Club, California Alpine Club, Tamalpais Conservation Club, and CCHC publications, and ephemera. Some
correspondence of Harold French, founder of CCHC, is included. Deeter, a popular storyteller, documented her storytelling
at various club gatherings.
Hiking.
Hitchhiking.
Parks--California--History.
Outdoor recreation--California--History.
Nature conservation--California, Northern.
Women storytellers--United States.
Maddick, Frances Norah Roberts, 1897-1991
Contra Costa Hills Club (Calif.)--History.
Sierra Club--History.
Tamalpais Conservation Club (Calif.)--History.
California Alpine Club (Calif.)--History.
National Story League
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)-Description and travel.
Sequoia National Park (Calif.)-Description and travel.
Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)-Description and travel.
Cazadero (Calif.)-Description and travel.
Los Angeles (Calif.)-Description and travel.
San Francisco (Calif.)-Description and travel.
Hearst-San Simeon State Historical Monument (Calif.)-Description and travel.
Scrapbooks