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Register of the Altrocchi (Julia Cooley) Poetry Collection,
1908-1974
Mss115
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Title: Altrocchi (Julia Cooley) Poetry Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1908-1974
Collection number: Mss115
Creator:
Hugh Hayes
Extent: 0.5 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Altrocchi (Julia Cooley) Poetry Collection,
Mss115, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the
Pacific Library
Altrocchi, Julia Cooley (1893-1972)
Authors, American -California -Correspondence
California -Poetry
West (U.S.) -Literatures
California -Description and travel -1869-1950
Julia Cooley Altrocchi (1893-1972), author and poet, resided in
Berkeley, Calif. upon graduation from Vassar College. She was married to
Rudolph Altrocchi, Professor of Italian at the University of California. Her
best known work is Snow Covered Wagons (1936), a story-in-verse of the Donner
Party Expedition. Other works include The Old California Trail (1945), and
Spectacular San Franciscans (1949). She was an honorary member of the Ina
Coolbrith Circle, San Francisco, the Browning Society of San Francisco, and
Poets of the Pacific.
The Altrocchi Collection consists of books, pamphlets, correspondence,
and miscellaneous papers.