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Collection Summary
Collection Title:
Francis P. Farquhar Papers, 1912-1968
Collection Number:
BANC MSS C-B 517
Creator:
Farquhar, Francis Peloubet
Extent:
Number of containers: 6 boxes, 10 cartons
Linear feet: 14.6
Repository:
The
Bancroft Library.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location:
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Abstract:
Materials reflecting his avocations as conservationist, mountaineer, author, and historian.
Include letters from friends and colleagues, officials of various government agencies and private organizations, etc., with copies of his replies; and subject files (with mss. of his writings, bibliographies, notes, tear sheets and reprints of articles by him and by others, etc.) relating to topics such as the Colorado River, big trees, various national parks (Glacier, Mesa Verde, Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, etc.), Dinosaur National Monument, Hetch Hetchy, Mount Shasta, Mount Whitney, the Sierra Nevada, wireless telegraphy in California, and to individuals such as Henry Larcom Abbot, William H. Brewer, James T. Gardiner, Joseph LeConte, John Muir, and Grizzly Adams. Correspondents include: Horace M.S. Albright, Norman Asa Clyde, Ansel Franklin Hall, Stephen T. Mather, C. Hart Merriam, George W. Stewart, Francois Matthes, and the National Park Service.
Languages Represented:
English
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