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Ilse Frauendorf Otterson travel diaries, 1941-1997.
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Title:

Ilse Frauendorf Otterson travel diaries, 1941-1997

Creator/Contributor:

Otterson, Ilse Frauendorf, 1912-2005, creator, creator.

Abstract:

Collection of diaries kept by Ilse Otterson, which describe her life with her husband Harold Otterson, including a sailing trip from Los Angeles to Sausalito, into the San Francisco Bay and up the San Joaquin River, traveling in Mexico, and living in Lompoc, California.

Date:

1941 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Travel
Delta Region (Calif.) -- Description and travel
Lompoc (Calif.) -- Description and travel
California -- Delta Region
California -- Lompoc
Otterson, Ilse Frauendorf -- 1912-2005 -- Archives
Otterson, Ilse Frauendorf -- 1912-2005 -- Diaries

Note:

UNPROCESSED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via a Special Collections Request link.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Gift of Christopher and Patricia Newton; 2019.
Ilse P. Frauendorf was born 8 October 1912 in Dessau Anhal, Federal Republic of Germany. She married Otto Harold Otterson (1894-1985), an engineer with Douglas Aircraft, in 1934. In the 1940s and 1950s, they lived on an uninhabited island in the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta. Ilse died 26 July 2005, while living in Pismo Beach, California.
Ilse Frauendorf Otterson travel diaries, BANC MSS 2019/201, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.

Type:

Archives.
Diaries.
Travel writing.
Diaries.
Travel writing.

Physical Description:

print
5 (4

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

UNPROCESSED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via a Special Collections Request link.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.