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- Creator:
- López y Galarza, Margarita, 1916-2000
- Published / Created:
- 1983.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-4481
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 88
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Photocopy of a typescript memoir by Margarita López y Galarza containing over 20 brief chapters reflecting on her life and identity as a Mexican American, 1983. López y Galarza recounts her family history in Jalcocotán, Mexico and describes her parents, brothers, and extended family members, many of whom were ranchers and railroad workers in California. Many of the stories concern her childhood in Sacramento, including her mother's role in the household, her experiences with religion, and her education. Several sections describe López y Galarza's elementary education in detail, including learning English and the program of Americanization at her elemenary school, which had a significant population of immigrant children, including Japanese Americans, Italian Americans, Irish Americans, and Mexican Americans. Other sections describe her father's opposition to her choice to attend college and become an American citizen, her career as a health educator at Los Angeles County General Hospital, and a visit to her birthplace in Jalcocotán with her daughter in 1972. Accompanied by a manuscript note from López y Galarza to a friend describing the process of writing the memoir and sharing family news, 1984
- Description:
- Margarita López y Galarza de la Vega Linsley (1916-2000) was born in Jalcocotán, Mexico and immigrated to Sacramento, California with her family in 1920. She earned her bachelor's degree from University of California, Los Angeles and master's degrees from University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley. She worked for the United States Department of Agriculture and was a health educator for Los Angeles County General Hospital, Kaiser Permanente, and the World Health Organization. López y Galarza was forced to legally change her first name to Marguerite when she became a United States citizen in 1940, because her American elementary school teachers had insisted on using the name Marguerite on her school records. She went by the nicknames Mago and Margo to family and friends., In English., and Title from title page.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California., West (U.S.), California, Jalcocotán (Mexico), and Sacramento (Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- López y Galarza, Margarita, 1916-2000. and Los Angeles County General Hospital.
- Subject (Topic):
- Americanization, Education, Elementary, Elementary schools, Health counselors, Immigrant children, Education, Immigrants, Mexican American children, Mexican American women, Mexican Americans, Religion, Railroads, Employees, Ranchers, Women, Race relations, Religious life and customs, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Happiness is being Mexican : typescript photocopy
3.
- Creator:
- Central Pacific Railroad Company
Hart, Alfred A., 1816-1908. - Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- WA Photos Stereos
- Container / Volume:
- Box 4
- Image Count:
- 2
- Alternative Title:
- Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for the stereoscope and album
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, Sacramento (Calif.), and West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Hydraulic mining
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hydraulic mining, California.
4.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1850]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +89
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Print shows an aerial view of Sacremento; harbor and ships in foreground; city, buildings, street, people, horses, wagons, in mid-ground; sky in background
- Alternative Title:
- Auswanderers Hoffnung and Emigrant's hope
- Description:
- BEIN WA Prints +89: Handwritten below image: The Emigrants Hope., BEIN WA Prins +90: Handwritten on verso: earlier print note additional buildings., and Title from caption above image.
- Publisher:
- Druck und Verlag v. A. Felgner
- Subject (Geographic):
- Sacramento (Calif.)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sacramento in Californien Des Auswanderers Hoffnung. [graphic]
5.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1850]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +90
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Print shows an aerial view of Sacremento; harbor and ships in foreground; city, buildings, street, people, horses, wagons, in mid-ground; sky in background
- Alternative Title:
- Auswanderers Hoffnung and Emigrant's hope
- Description:
- BEIN WA Prints +89: Handwritten below image: The Emigrants Hope., BEIN WA Prins +90: Handwritten on verso: earlier print note additional buildings., and Title from caption above image.
- Publisher:
- Druck und Verlag v. A. Felgner
- Subject (Geographic):
- Sacramento (Calif.)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sacramento in Californien Des Auswanderers Hoffnung. [graphic]
6.
- Creator:
- Orvis, Andrew M., 1819-1895
- Published / Created:
- 1849-1858
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 367
- Image Count:
- 34
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The journal records an 1849 journey from Wisconsin to California, crossing Illinois and Iowa and continuing by way of Council Bluffs, the Platte and Sweetwater, South Pass, Fort Bridger, and Salt Lake City. There is a gap but the account continues on the Mormon Trail to the Humboldt and the Truckee. The journal covers Orvis's experiences in the mines and in Sacramento. The journal is followed by accounts and records of employment showing that Orvis was back on his farm in Wisconsin by 1858.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California--Description and travel, Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, Sacramento (Calif.), and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Orvis, Caroline
- Subject (Topic):
- Agriculture--Wisconsin, Mines and mineral resources--California, Overland journeys to the Pacific, and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1849
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Transcript] Overland journey : from Lake Maria, Marquette County, Wisconsin, to California, and life in the mines
