Bunnell-Mapes family papers, 1821-1966 (bulk 1870-1907).

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Bunnell-Mapes family papers, 1821-1966 (bulk 1870-1907).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122453547

Primarily letters to Katherine Mapes Bunnell, including letters from her sister, Mary Mapes Dodge; Luther Burbank; Mary Hallock Foote; Ina Coolbrith; Kate Douglas Wiggin; Richard Watson Gilder; and various members of the Mapes and Bunnell families. Included also are articles and clippings relating primarily to the railroad industry, the University of California, and other historical subjects as well as a scrapbook kept by Katherine Bunnell ca. 1897-1899. Scrapbook, v.1 has been pasted into a Wells Fargo & Co. register for express freight forwarded on passenger trains, Central Pacific route. Includes stations in Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Redding, Stockton, Merced, and Fresno, Calif., and Reno and Elko, Nev. and points between, from ca. May-Nov. 1873.

7 boxes, 3 v.

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Mapes family.

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Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905

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Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909

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Foote, Mary Hallock, 1847-1938

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Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923

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American author and educator. From the description of Papers of Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, 1887-1923. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31083790 Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Robert N. Smith and Helen E. Dyer. Her father died when she was three. She and her mother then moved to Maine, the setting of most of her future books. Three years later, her mother married Albion Bradbury. At 17, she moved with her family to Santa Barbara (Calif.). There ...

Burbank , Luther, 1849-1926

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