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Olive Mayer papers, approximately 1968-2000.
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Olive Mayer papers, approximately 1968-2000Creator/Contributor:
Mayer, Olive, 1918-2013, creator, creator.Abstract:
Correspondence, legal documents, reports, notes, press releases, and photographs documenting Olive Mayer's work as a peace
activist and an environmental activist in San Mateo County.
Date:
1968 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caLand use -- California -- San Mateo County
Coastal zone management -- California -- San Mateo County
Conservation of natural resources -- California -- San Mateo County
Women conservationists -- California -- San Mateo County
Women and peace
Utilisation du sol -- Californie -- San Mateo (Comté)
Littoral -- Aménagement -- Californie -- San Mateo (Comté)
Conservation des ressources naturelles -- Californie -- San Mateo (Comté)
Femmes écologistes (Défenseuses de l'environnement) -- Californie -- San Mateo (Comté)
Femmes et paix
Women conservationists
Coastal zone management
Conservation of natural resources
Land use
Women and peace
Devil's Slide (Calif.)
Sweeney Ridge (Calif.)
California -- San Mateo County
California -- Sweeney Ridge
Sierra Club. -- Loma Prieta Chapter.
Sierra Club. -- Loma Prieta Chapter
Mayer, Olive -- 1918-2013 -- Archives
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Preliminary container list available.
Gift of Olive Mayer; 2009.
Maps transferred to the Map Collections of the Bancroft Library.
Related collection: Olive Mayer collection of aerial photographs of San Mateo County (BANC PIC 2010.077).
Olive (Ollie) Graham Hendricks Mayer (November 7, 1918 - March 20, 2013) was a mechanical engineer who began working with
the women's international peace movement in the 1950's and on San Mateo County conservation issues in the 1960's. She was
known for her work in preserving coastal resources, including the campaign against the construction of a major freeway to
replace Highway 1 and in support of a tunnel at Devil's Slide. Additionally, she opposed illegal logging practices and supported
the extension of a county-wide network of hiking trails. Mayer was a fifty-year member of the Sierra Club, and a former conservation
chair of the Loma Prieta Chapter. She was raised in News Jersey and New York before attending Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania,
where she was one of the first women to graduate with an engineering degree. She married Dr. Henry Mayer in 1941 and they
raised their family in Woodside, California. She died of heart failure at the age of 94.
Olive Mayer papers, BANC MSS 2009/132, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
Photographphotographs.
scrapbooks.
Photographs
Albums (Books)
Archives
Photographs.
Albums (Books)
Scrapbooks.
Photographies.
Albums personnalisés.
Physical Description:
print
16.5 (13 1 1 oversize folder)
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.