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Bunnell-Mapes family papers, 1821-1966 (bulk 1870-1907).
BANC MSS 83/107 cLOCAL
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Bunnell-Mapes family papers, 1821-1966 (bulk 1870-1907)Bunnell Mapes family papers
Creator/Contributor:
Bunnell, Katherine Mapes., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Bunnell family.Creator/Contributor:
Mapes family.Creator/Contributor:
Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926, Correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Foote, Mary Hallock, 1847-1938, Correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905, Correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 1856-1923, Correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909, Correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Wells, Fargo & CompanyAbstract:
Primarily letters to Katherine Mapes Bunnell, including letters from her sister, Mary Mapes Dodge; Luther Burbank; Mary Hallock
Foote; Ina Coolbrith; Kate Douglas Wiggin; Richard Watson Gilder; and various members of the Mapes and Bunnell families. Included
also are articles and clippings relating primarily to the railroad industry, the University of California, and other historical
subjects as well as a scrapbook kept by Katherine Bunnell ca. 1897-1899.
Scrapbook, v.1 has been pasted into a Wells Fargo & Co. register for express freight forwarded on passenger trains, Central
Pacific route. Includes stations in Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Redding, Stockton, Merced, and Fresno, Calif., and
Reno and Elko, Nev. and points between, from ca. May-Nov. 1873.
Date:
1821 (issued)Note:
Photographs have been transferred to Bancroft Pictorial Collections (BANC PIC 1983.122--PIC).
Type:
Scrapbooks.Physical Description:
7 boxes, 3 volumes
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 83/107 cLOCAL