Laura Adams Armer papers, 1961-1963.

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Armer, Laura Adams, 1874-1963. Laura Adams Armer papers, 1961-1963.

Laura Adams Armer papers, 1961-1963.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/441972844

This collection includes a typescript memoir by Laura Adams Armer and a typescript diary originally written by her father, Charles Adams. Armer's memoir, My Childhood in the City by the Golden Gate, describes daily life in San Francisco's South of Market area in the 1880s, writing of Chinese neighbors and their laundry, an Indian neighbor, saloons and hoodlums, wooden sidewalks, holiday celebrations, a ferry ride, the Cobweb Palace, the Mechanics Fair, Woodward's Gardens and Golden Gate Park. She mentions her early artistic leanings and training. One anecdote involves harvesting grain in the Sacramento Valley. Of particular interest is her account of the departure and return of the Adam's roomer, Thomas Stevens, who circled the globe on a bicycle in 1884. The diary of an overland journey kept by Laura Armer's father, Charles Wilson Adams, Diary of Charles W. Adams, begins April 12, 1859, in Rockford, Illinois, and ends September 11, 1859, in Ball's Ferry, California.

1 folder (including 1 typescript memoir (36 leaves) and 1 typescript diary (20 leaves)).

San Francisco Public Library, Main Library