Picher (Anna Bell) Collection, 1892-1900

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Title:: Anna Bell Picher Collection
Dates:: 1892-1900
Creators:: Picher, Annie Belle
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Extent:: (Boxes: 2 ov; 1 ov bundle; 2 ov folders)
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Preferred citation:: Anna Bell Picher Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Scope and content:: Scrapbooks about "California in Harpers Magazine," "California Missions as Architecture" and other loose documents related to California mission culture. One scrapbook "El Camino Real" dated 1900, shown by the Pasadena Exhibition Association, includes photographs of the last families of the San Gabriel Mission. Notable are several missal parchments of hymns printed in Latin. Circa 1892-1900, undated
Biographical / historical:: Alternate name spelling and title is Annie Belle Picher, Director, Stone Boundary League. Picher sought for a Congressional memorial in the interest of establishing historic, interstate, boundary stones on the transcontinental, federal highways, reaching the Pacific through Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Texas and California. She also had a project for the marking of "El Camino Real".

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid created by Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County staff.
Date Prepared:: 1892-1900
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.

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Preferred citation:: Anna Bell Picher Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Location of this collection:: Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

900 Exposition Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90007-4057, US