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[Sarah Mildred Wright photograph albums].
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[Sarah Mildred Wright photograph albums]Creator/Contributor:
Wright, Sarah Mildred, creator, creator.Abstract:
Photograph albums chiefly documenting Sarah Mildred Wright's years in Berkeley, Calif. while a student at the University of
California (where she received her M.A. in 1921). Photographs also depict her activities in the years shortly preceding and
following her stay in Berkeley, including leisure outings with friends and family in the Midwestern United States; travels
across the United States and Western Canada; and miscellaneous domestic scenes. Particular subjects depicted include the U.C.
Berkeley campus; the Berkeley fire of 1923 (inaccurately dated herein as 1924); San Francisco and the greater San Francisco
Bay Area; Mount Tamalpais; Yosemite Valley; and various locations in Illinois (Evanston, Chicago, Indiana Dunes), Ohio (Xenia,
Akron), Wisconsin (Lake Geneva), Massachusetts (Boston, Plymouth), and British Columbia. Sarah Midred Wright is depicted throughout
the albums.
Date:
1915 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caLeisure -- California -- Photographs
Fires -- California -- Berkeley -- Photographs
Fires
Leisure
Students
Berkeley (Calif.) -- Photographs
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Photographs
California
California -- Berkeley
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
University of California, Berkeley -- Photographs
University of California, Berkeley -- Students -- Photographs
University of California, Berkeley.
Wright, Sarah Mildred -- Archives
Wright, Sarah Mildred -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Compiled and chiefly photographed by Sarah Mildred Wright.
Some prints bear hand-written captions in margins.
Transferred from the Sarah Mildred Wright diaries (BANC MSS 2022/209).
Gift of the Estate of Ralph Gaarde, via Barbara Gaarde ; 2022.
Sarah Mildred Wright photograph albums, BANC PIC 2023.051, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicArchives.
Photographs.
Photograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 600 photographs in 3 albums, stored in 1 box : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; prints and albums various sizes
Language:
English