Spooner family papers 1857-1963

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Spooner family papers 1857-1963

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Collection consists of family photographs ofJohn Pitcher Spooner family and papers of John Pitcher Spooner and Fred K.Spooner. John Pitcher Spooner's papers include family correspondence, notes, asea voyage sketchbook and genealogy notes (1857-1917). Fred Spooner's papersinclude school papers and reminiscences of steamboat crew members and childhoodexperiences (1920s).

.5 linear feet

eng,

University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6651533

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Spooner family

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Spooner, John Pitcher, 1845-1917.

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John Pitcher Spooner was born in New Bedford, Mass. (1845) and went to sea at an early age. After several voyages he settled in San Francisco, Calif. (1864), where he took a job with Bradley-Rulofson Photographers. After fifteen years with this firm he married one of his models, Sarah Elizabeth Williams, and opened his own studio in Stockton, Calif. (1879). Spooner's glass plate photographs and stereo views of Stockton constitute a valuable record of the city's appearance during the last quarter...

Spooner, Fred K.

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John Pitcher Spooner Photography Studio (Stockton, Calif.)

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