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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC05755.020 |
From Archive Folder | Collections concerning the Alaskan gold rush |
Title | Edwin B. Sherzer to Clara M. Miller discussing the disreputable characters found in saloons and a lady who got stuck in the mud |
Date | 30 September 1900 |
Author | Sherzer, Edwin B. (fl. 1900-1902) |
Recipient | Miller, Clara M. |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | Addressed to "Dear Pitty." Letter mentions "the little stamp photos" from his mother. Talks about mud and spills, a lady getting stuck in mud. Mentions saloons and gambling: "This place is certainly awful for disreputable characters, you can go into any of the saloons or gambling houses and see the women gambling and mixing with the men and in some of them they run the tables." Mr. McTaggart took photographs of their camp. He loves her. How he learned to make pies by just doing it. |
Subjects | Alaska Gold Rush Frontiers and Exploration Mining Love Letters Photography Children and Family Women's History Diet and Nutrition Alcohol Morality and Ethics Gambling |
People | Sherzer, Edwin B. (fl. 1900-1902) Miller, Clara M. (fl. 1900-1902) |
Place written | Nome, Alaska |
Theme | Westward Expansion; Women in American History |
Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
Civil War: Recipient Relationship | Wife |