This collection consists of the diaries and daybooks written by Marie Cecil White Smith over the course of sixty years.

Marie Cecil White Smith (1892-1976) was a longtime resident of Chico, Redding, and finally, Santa Rosa and kept extensive diaries until 1970 where she recorded her observations and experiences living in California. White Smith was also the older sister of Lewis Edmund White who studied mechanical engineering at Stanford University from 1913 to 1917 before being drafted into WWI. An account of this time was recorded in her diaries.

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