Alice Eastwood Collection

Résumé du livre

Letters, postcards, brochures, and ephemera related to the life of Alice Eastwood, the longtime curator of botany at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. One handwritten letter and one postcard are from Eastwood herself and addressed to a Mr. Holifeld [sic] [likely Hohfeld] and Jane on occasion of her trip to Sweden. One letter is from Jean [Wentworth?] to Lillian [Hohfeld?]. Other correspondence includes: typewritten letters to and from Edward Hohfeld, a trustee of the May T. Morrison Trust Estate, regarding donations to the Save-the-Redwoods League for the Alice Eastwood Grove in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park and a receipt for a donation. Letters to Mr. Hohfeld are on Save-the-Redwoods letterhead paper. Hohfeld mentions in his response letter that Eastwood and Morrison were "close friends." Ephemera include: a printed brochure for soliciting contributions for the grove, a brochure for the Alice Eastwood Herbarium Fund, a brochure marking her 80th birthday, a San Francisco Chronicle newsclipping [1942?] account of her 50th year as the curator for botany at the Academy. On the verso side of the Chronicle article there is a political cartoon of Hitler and Mussolini drawn by Cloyd Sweigert. The front cover of the brochure for the Grove has a lithographic image of an Alice Chittenden painting of Alice Eastwood in 1937. On the back of the brochure there is a lithographic image of Prairie Creek Redwoods State park by Moulin Studios. Postcard showing Scandinavian Airlines plane with passengers disembarking. Stationery note from Grand Hotel Stockholm.