Hiram Bushell papers, 1921-1935.

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Hiram Bushell papers, 1921-1935.

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Collection includes diaries kept by Hiram Bushell while at the Civilian Conservation Corps' Yankee Hill Work Camp in Yankee Hill, California (1934-1935). The diary entries contain his comments on daily life in the camp and on relationships he built while living there. Bushell's sometimes poetic writings reveal his observations of the hierarchical relations that existed in the work camp and the ways in which he applied traditional Jewish thought to his experiences there.

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Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library

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Bancroft Library. Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.

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Judah L. Magnes Museum

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Bushell, Hiram, 1882-1953

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Hiram Bushell, born in Russia in 1882, arrived in Sacramento, California in the 1920s and opened a small hardware store. In 1934, during the Great Depression, he went to the Yankee Hill Work Camp that was located near Sacramento. From the description of Hiram Bushell papers, 1921-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 743435646 From the description of Hiram Bushell papers, 1921-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123465500 ...

Western Jewish History Center

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The Western Jewish History Center (WJHC), a research center based around a library and large archive, was founded in 1967. It is part of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, located in Berkeley, Calif. Its mission is to collect and preserve materials documenting the history of the Jewish community in the western United States. To that end, it has collected a large number of organizational records; personal papers and correspondence; audiotapes; and photographs, graphic art, and motion picture films. It h...

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