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BANC MSS .C-B 545
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Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Charles B. Turrill Papers as Manager, Preliminary World's Fair Exhibit
Creator:
Turrill, Charles Beebe
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS .C-B 545
Physical Description:
3.4 linear feet
(2 boxes, 13 volumes, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1892
Abstract: Copies of letters sent and received Apr.-Nov., 1892; drafts of rules and regulations, premium lists, applications for space,
and other materials.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research.
Gift of Elliot A. P. Evans, February 3, 1955 and August, 1957.
Charles B. Turrill, Californian writer and businessman, was California Commissioner for the World's Cotton Exposition, New
Orleans, 1884-1885, and Director for California for the North, Central and South American Exposition also in New Orleans,
1885-1886. He was manager of the Preliminary World's Fair Exhibit of California, shown at the Mechanics Institute's 27th Industrial
Exposition, San Francisco, January 10-February 18, 1893, which was later shown at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,
1893. His scrapbooks and papers reflect these activities.
[Identification of item], Charles B. Turrill papers as manager, Preliminary World's Fair Exhibit, BANC MSS C-B 545, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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