Journal of a Trip Across the Continent: volume III
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- Title
- Journal of a Trip Across the Continent: volume III
- Date
- 1902
- Traveller
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- Shurtleff, Sarah Anne (Keegan)
- Reference
- A170 box 13 203v
- Region
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- North America
- Country
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- United States
- Places
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- Alaska
- California
- San Francisco
- Alameda
- Raymond
- Yosemite Valley
- Mariposa
- San Raphael
- Santa Fe
- Oakland
- Description
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A journal recording Sarah Shurtleff's travels and her reactions to and thoughts about the people she met and the places she visited. The volume is illustrated with pictures she collected and with photographs, many of which were taken by her husband, Asahel Shurtleff. The volume includes an index. This series of journals are copies of the pencilled diaries that she wrote at the time of her trip (see ref. A170 box 12 198v-200v).
In this journal she describes her experience of Chinatown and Chinese people. She visits Golden Gate Park, a museum of art, Vernall Falls and Yosemite National Park. She also describes an oriental press.
- Library / Archive
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