Monterey County Free Libraries local history photograph and document collection Circa 1890s to 1970s

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Monterey County Free Libraries local history photograph and document collection Circa 1890s to 1970s

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Monterey County Free Libraries' local history collection consists of books, photographs, maps, and documents on the history of Monterey County and California from the 1890s to 1970s. The collection offers historical interpretation of Monterey County and its role in California history. Digitized images in the collection include photographs, postcards, and documents of people, places, and buildings including libraries and librarians, schools, missions, industries (whaling, salt, and agricultural) in Aromas, Big Sur, Carmel, Gonzales, Jolon, Monterey, Moss Landing, Seaside, Pacific Grove, Salinas, Seaside, Soledad, Spreckles, and more. Of particular interest are photographs of the first county librarian, Anne Hadden, delivering library service on horseback to Big Sur, and photographs of farm labor camps in Monterey County circa 1960s.

200 items including photographs, postcards and printed ephemera; Online items available

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Monterey County Free Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6650586

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Bernard Ralph Maybeck (1869-1957) studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Returning to New York, he worked for Carrere and Hastings. Maybeck sought his fortune out West in 1890, first in Kansas City, then in San Francisco. In 1890, Maybeck married Annie White, who became his office manager. In 1894 Maybeck became an instructor of descriptive geometry for the University of California, Berkeley. From 1896-1899 he orchestrated the Phoebe Hearst International Competition for the U...

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Biography/Administrative History L. S. (Louis Stanislas) Slevin, a California native, came to Carmel in 1903 and photographed the whole of Monterey County from Big Sur to the Pinnacles National Monument. He left a history of the area in both prints and postcards. Albert and Alzora Snyder were local historians for the town of Aromas which is located in the northern end of Monterey County. They left their extensive photograph and cl...

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Biography/Administrative History L. S. (Louis Stanislas) Slevin, a California native, came to Carmel in 1903 and photographed the whole of Monterey County from Big Sur to the Pinnacles National Monument. He left a history of the area in both prints and postcards. Albert and Alzora Snyder were local historians for the town of Aromas which is located in the northern end of Monterey County. They left their extensive photograph and cl...

Slevin, L. S. (Louis Stanislas), 1878-1945

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Biography/Administrative History L. S. (Louis Stanislas) Slevin, a California native, came to Carmel in 1903 and photographed the whole of Monterey County from Big Sur to the Pinnacles National Monument. He left a history of the area in both prints and postcards. Albert and Alzora Snyder were local historians for the town of Aromas which is located in the northern end of Monterey County. They left their extensive photograph and cl...

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