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Raymond Wallace travel journals, 1935 July-1936 January.
BANC MSS 99/163 c
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Title:
Raymond Wallace travel journals, 1935 July-1936 JanuarySan Jose Mercury-news
Creator/Contributor:
Wallace, Raymond., creatorAbstract:
Contains a journal kept by Raymond Wallace in two notebooks of his hitchhiking trip around the western half of the United
States from July to September, 1935 (forty pages of the first notebook are Wallace's notes from a chemistry course at San
Jose State College). Wallace traveled through the Pacific Northwest, east to the Midwest, and as far as St. Paul, Minnesota,
before returning to California. His writings about the trip were published serially in the San Jose Mercury News. The third
notebook includes clippings of these articles, as well as published and unpublished letters written to the editor by various
individuals in reaction to his writings. A fourth notebook contains a record of Wallace's trip to Asilomar, California, with
other students during the winter break of December 1935 to January 1936.
Date:
1935 (issued)Subject:
n-us--- -- n-us-caWallace, Raymond -- Diaries
San Jose State College -- Students
Hitchhiking -- United States -- Personal narratives
United States -- Description and travel
Asilomar (Calif.) -- Description and travel
Note:
Raymond Wallace travel journals, BANC MSS 99/163 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Gift; of estate of Raymond Wallace; 1991.
In English.
Type:
Diaries.Physical Description:
print
4 volumes (in 1 box, .2 linear feet)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 99/163 c