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Starr family. Starr family photograph collection [graphic].

Title: Starr family photograph collection [graphic]. ca. 1895 ca. 1940.

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.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 6 oversize folders (ca. 700 photographic prints), 2 boxes (ca. 200 negatives), and 3 negatives : b&w ; various sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/664026442 View

Alsup, William H.,. William H. Alsup research materials related to Walter A. Starr, Jr., 1895-2001.

Title: William H. Alsup research materials related to Walter A. Starr, Jr., 1895-2001.

Contains research materials used for a book, Missing in the Minarets: the search for Walter A. Starr, Jr., about a climber who in 1933 while climbing alone in the Minarets Wilderness of California. Includes Sierra Club bulletins, photocopies of personal journals and photographs, correspondence, interviews, notes, and newspaper clippings etc. Walter A. Starr, Jr. climbing journal (July, 1928).

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (0.8 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227503540 View