Scrapbook of transfer of capital to Monterey, 1938-1939.

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Scrapbook of transfer of capital to Monterey, 1938-1939.

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Scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings, four letters (one a copy), and one promotional pamphlet pertaining to the proposed transfer of the California state capital from Sacramento to Monterey, originating in 1938. The newspapers include the Monterey Peninsula Herald, the Carmel Cymbal, Carmel Pine Cone, Pacific Grove Tide, Salinas Index Journal, King City Rustler Herald, Fresno Bee & Republican, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Call-Bulletin, Los Angeles Times, numerous other California newspapers, and the Christian Science Monitor. Two of the letters, one addressed to Mrs. Holman, are signed by S.F.B. Morse of the Del Monte Properties Company.

1 scrapbook of newspaper clippings ; 30 x 24 cm.

Monterey Public Library

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Monterey Public Library

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Work, T. A. (Thomas Albert), 1869-1963.

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Patterson, Ellis E. (Ellwood), State Assemblyman, 1897-1985.

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Tickle, Edward H. (Humphrey), State Senator, 1878-1969.

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Holman, Zena, Mrs. W.R.

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The proposal to move the state capital to Monterey was initiated in March 1938, by a group of citizens of the Monterey Peninsula, under the leadership of S.F.B. Morse, whose company owned a substantial acreage on the Monterey side of Carmel Hill, which was intended as the site of the state capital building and related office buildings. The Campaign had the support of State Senator Edward Tickle of Carmel, but not that of local Assemblyman Ellis Patterson, who became a candidate for lieutenant go...

Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Brown), 1885-1969.

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Monterey Chamber of Commerce.

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Holman, W. R. (Wilford Ransselear), 1884-1981.

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State Capitol Committee (Monterey, Calif.)

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