Myra A. Gates travel scrapbooks of California, 1929-1949.

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Myra A. Gates travel scrapbooks of California, 1929-1949.

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Four unbound scrapbooks containing typewritten accounts of Gates' tourist travels through Calif., with accompanying picture and photographic postcards of landscapes, hotels, trains, and sights. Includes extensive material on the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) and of San Francisco in the 1940s. Also includes descriptions of Inverness, St. Helena Sanitarium, Los Angeles, and the Redwood Highway.

4 folders (0.4 linear ft.)

California historical society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6714057

California historical society

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Gates, Myra A.

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Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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History It has been said that with two great bridges in the course of construction, there began in San Francisco, in about 1933, a substantial feeling that a celebration or exposition should be held to commemorate their completion. As the plans for an exposition developed, it seemed fitting that its theme should be man's progress in communication, transportation, trade and industry, since these were the fields symbolized by the bridges. The S...