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Starr family photograph collection.
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Title:
Starr family photograph collectionCreator/Contributor:
Starr family., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Starr, Walter A. (Walter Augustus), 1877-Creator/Contributor:
Starr, Walter A., Jr, 1903-1933Creator/Contributor:
Willard, Stephen H.Abstract:
Chiefly photographs taken by Walter Augustus (Peter) Starr, Jr. and his father Walter A. Starr, Sr. of various locations in
the Sierra Nevada mountains, including the Minarets Wilderness where Peter died during a mountaineering expedition in 1933.
Also includes photographs by the Starrs used by William H. Alsup to illustrate Alsup's book "Missing in the Minarets", written
about Peter Starr's fatal expedition; and a small series of photographs taken by Stephen H. Willard of various locations in
the Sierra Nevada. Some photographs of Starr family members and friends are also present.
Date:
approximately 1895 ca. 1940 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caMountaineering -- Search and rescue operations -- California -- Photographs
Mountaineers -- United States -- Photographs
Secours en montagne -- Californie -- Photographies
Alpinistes -- États-Unis -- Photographies
Mountaineering -- Search and rescue operations
Mountaineers
Minarets Wilderness (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Pictorial works
Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.) -- Ouvrages illustrés
California
California -- Minarets Wilderness
United States
United States -- Sierra Nevada
Jr -- Starr, Walter A -- 1903-1933 -- Pictorial works
Jr -- Starr, Walter A -- 1903-1933
Note:
Collected by Eddy Starr Ancinas.
Title devised by cataloger.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
RESTRICTED NEGATIVES. Use of negatives only by permission of the appropriate curator. Inquiries regarding these materials
should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.
Gift ; Of Eddy Starr Ancinas; 2007.
Correspondence and other William H. Alsup research material related to Walter A. Starr, Jr. transferred to the Manuscript
Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 2007/248).
Container listing available in library.
Type:
graphicPhotographs
Pictorial works
Physical Description:
photonegative
photoprint
2 boxes and 6 oversize folders (approximately 700 photographic prints), 2 boxes (approximately 200 negatives), and 3 negatives
: black and white ; various sizes.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
RESTRICTED NEGATIVES. Use of negatives only by permission of the appropriate curator. Inquiries regarding these materials
should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.