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Guide to the Mary Curry Tresidder Diary
SCM0190  
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    Call Number: SCM0190
    Creator: Tresidder, Mary Curry, 1893-
    Title: Mary Curry Tresidder diary
    Dates: 1936
    Physical Description: 0.125 Linear feet (1 volume)
    Language(s): The materials are in English.
    Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
    Green Library
    557 Escondido Mall
    Stanford, CA 94305-6064
    Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
    Phone: (650) 725-1022
    URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

    Biographical/Historical note

    Mary Curry, daughter of David Curry, founder of Camp Curry at Yosemite, was married to Donald B. Tresidder, president of the Yosemite Park and Curry Company and later president of Stanford University (1943-1948).

    Scope and Contents note

    Diary was kept from January 21 to April 23, 1936, during the trip that Mary Curry and Donald B. Tresidder made to the 1936 Winter Olympic Games in Garmish-Partenkirchen, Germany. The diary continues with their travels to Vienna, Paris, London, and the English countryside.