Starr family photograph collection [graphic]. ca. 1895 ca. 1940.

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Starr family photograph collection [graphic]. ca. 1895 ca. 1940.

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Chiefly photographs taken by Walter Augustus (Peter) Starr, Jr. and his father Walter A. Starr, Sr. of various locations in the Sierra Nevada mountains, including the Minarets Wilderness where Peter died during a mountaineering expedition in 1933. Also includes photographs by the Starrs used by William H. Alsup to illustrate Alsup's book "Missing in the Minarets", written about Peter Starr's fatal expedition; and a small series of photographs taken by Stephen H. Willard of various locations in the Sierra Nevada. Some photographs of Starr family members and friends are also present.

2 boxes and 6 oversize folders (ca. 700 photographic prints), 2 boxes (ca. 200 negatives), and 3 negatives : b&w ; various sizes.

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Starr family.

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Starr, Walter A.

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Second vice president, United States Grain Corporation, 1919. From the description of Walter A. Starr miscellaneous papers, 1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868990 ...

Starr, Walter Augustus, 1903-1933

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Biographical/Historical Note Second vice president, United States Grain Corporation, 1919. From the guide to the Walter A. Starr miscellaneous papers, 1919, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Willard, Stephen H.

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Willard was an American photographer active ca. 1920s-1930s. From the description of Four landscapes in Death Valley : photographic prints. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81614121 ...

Alsup, William H.

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Walter Augustus "Pete" Starr, Jr. (1903-1933) was an American lawyer and mountain climber. A graduate of Stanford University, Starr was a respected lawyer in San Francisco, but he is better known for his abilities as a mountain climber and an explorer of the Sierra Nevada. Starr was an icon in the climbing world. He had scaled more than 40 prominent summits in the Sierra and several in the Alps, including France's Mont Blanc. In August 1933, he failed to return from a month-long hike in the Mina...