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SERIES I. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM (circa 1900 – circa 1913)
One (1) Album
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains the photograph album of Hollis Peck from 1900 to the mid-1910s. The photograph album has green cloth cover that is very worn. The album is approximately 7″ x 10″. There are photos of various locations in and around Aptos, Soquel and Capitola, the San Juan Mission, UC Berkeley campus, and the Lick Observatory. The photos include various churches. There are also photos of families and friends at these locations. Some of these photos are labelled with locations and names.(93 x Photos)
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SERIES II. SCRAPBOOK “WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA” (1908)
One (1) Scrapbook
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains the a scrapbook “Wild Flowers of California” that was drawn freehand by Manuel Rogers, Eighth Grade. There is a note on the inside cover, portion of it is torn off, “- – – Davis, With Compliments of Ferndale School.” There are twenty-five (25) leaves and/or wild flowers pressed in the pages of the scrapbook. There is no date on the scrapbook, though it may have been a going away present when she left her position as superintendent of schools in 1926. The dried flowers in the book include: wake, wild turnip, California poppy, California trillium, toothwort (pepper-root), shepherd’s purse, pussy willow, hound’s tongue, sun cup, zygadene, false Solomon’s seal, fairy bells, Indian paint brush, wild cucumber, common buttercup, creeping wood violet, violet nightshade, blue lupine, miner’s lettuce, wild portubaca, wood anemone, radish, skullcap, woodland star, star flower, and cream cups.
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1:X
SERIES III. LETTER AND NEWSPAPER CLIPPING (1925 – 1940)
One (1) Envelope
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains a letter from Abbie Richardson dated January 11, 1925 congratulating Mrs. Peck on her wedding. The postmark of the letter is from Olympia, Calif. The newspaper clipping is Mrs. Cecil Marie Davis Peck’s obituary, June 26, 1940.
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