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Olive Mayer collection of aerial photographs of San Mateo County.
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Title:
Olive Mayer collection of aerial photographs of San Mateo CountyCreator/Contributor:
Mayer, Olive, 1918-2013, creator, collector.Abstract:
Aerial views chiefly depicting undeveloped areas of San Mateo County. Locations identified include Bear Gulch, Star Hill,
San Gregorio, McCreery and Dyer properties, Pigeon Point lighthouse, Rockaway Beach, Half Moon Bay, El Granada, Bald Mountain,
Irish Ridge, Skyline Trail, Crystal Springs Reservoir, Langley Hill, Purisima Creek, La Honda Road, Mills Creek, Cahill Ridge,
Sawyer Ridge, Los Francos, Digs Canyon and Nuff Creek.
Date:
1970 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caSan Mateo County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
California -- San Mateo County
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the
Reference Inquiry form.
Transferred from the Olive Mayer papers (BANC MSS 2009/132).
Gift of Olive Mayer; 2009.
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.
Type:
graphicPhotograph
photographs.
Photographs
Aerial photographs
Pictorial works
Aerial photographs-California-San Mateo County.
Aerial photographs.
Photographs.
Photographies.
Physical Description:
photonegative
photoprint
1 box (approximately 190 photographic prints) and approximately 275 negatives : 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
Language:
English
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CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the
Reference Inquiry form.