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Flick and Sally & Henry through the national parks, 1922 : original diary, 2005 /
BANC MSS 2011/66 ; BANC CPF 355
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Flick and Sally & Henry through the national parks, 1922: original diary, 2005Flick and Sally and Henry through the national parks, 1922
Creator/Contributor:
Gates, Joan, creator, transcriber.Abstract:
Typescript, spiral bound volume, containing a transcription of a manuscript diary of two women who went on a 5000 mile car
trip, in a 1920 Ford touring car they called Henry, to visit the national parks including Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Zion, Yellowstone,
Glacier, and Crater Lake. The diary also includes color reproductions of their original receipt for the car, a map with their
route outlined in green, decals from sites they visited or traveled, newspaper clippings, and numerous photographs of the
women and scenic views along with the original manuscript notations. Includes one computer disc containing files of scanned
images of each page of the original diary, and pages from a second diary (not transcribed) titled, "Further Wanderings of
Flick and Sally this time with Henry II across the continent from San Francisco to Boston, 1924."
Date:
2005 (issued)Subject:
n-us--- -- n-usp-- -- n-us-az -- n-us-ca -- n-us-ut -- n-us-mt -- n-us-orElfick, Margaret -- Diaries
Elfick, Margaret -- Portraits
Osborn, Sally -- Diaries
Osborn, Sally -- Portraits
Women travelers -- California -- San Francisco -- Diaries
Women travelers -- United States -- Diaries
Women travelers -- California -- San Francisco -- Portraits
Women travelers -- United States -- Portraits
National parks and reserves -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries
National parks and reserves -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works
Automobile travel -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries
Automobile travel -- United States -- Diaries
Automobile travel -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works
Automobile travel -- United States -- Pictorial works
West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)
Zion National Park (Utah)
Glacier National Park (Mont.)
Crater Lake National Park (Or.)
Note:
transcribed and compiled by Joan Gates.
Gates, Joan. Flick and Sally & Henry through the national parks, 1922, 2005, BANC MSS 2011/66, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Gift; of Joan Gates; 20050207.
Margaret "Flick" Elfick, from London, England, and Sally Osborn, from Boston, met on a train crossing the country to San Francisco
and spent the rest of their lives together. Sally Osborn was the secretary to several mayors of San Francisco, California.
In English.
Type:
Diaries.Photographs.
Physical Description:
52 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 2011/66
BANC CPF 355