Marian H. Smith travel diary, 1930.

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Marian H. Smith travel diary, 1930.

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Unbound typewritten travel diary, entitled "So We Go West", written by Marian H. Smith in 1930. The diary documents her participation in the Transcontinental Study Tour to California, conducted by the University of North Carolina. Smith joined the bus tour in Black Mountain, N.C., along with her friends Bronte Jumper, Dorothy Phillips, and Lucia Phillips. The diary includes short vivid descriptions of places where the bus tour stopped, as well as of the activities undertaken by the tour group. The diary includes poems and songs written by tour members about the places they visited and the people on the tour. Cities visited include Los Angeles, Calif., Oakland, Calif., San Francisco, Calif., Denver, Colo., Nashville, Tenn., Salt Lake City, Utah, and Reno, Nev. Parks described include Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Petrified Forest National Park, and various tourist camps.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Smith, Marian H.

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Marian H. Smith participated in a study tour to California conducted by the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1930. From the description of Marian H. Smith travel diary, 1930. WorldCat record id: 70692230 ...

Smith, Marion H.

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