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  1. Early pioneers of Mill Valley, including Sidney Cushing, circa 1890s
  2. Founders of the Mt. Tamalpais Scenic Railway,  circa 1890
  3. Portrait of Lovell White.
  4. Lovell White portrait, date unknown
  5. Lovell White portrait with dark tie, date unknown
  6. Lovell White with Grandson Larry Symmes, 1929
  7. Oral History of Beryl Jean Symmes - Oral History

    Beryl Jean Symmes grew up in Richmond, Surrey, England. In 1943 she met Laurence M. Symmes Jr., an American serviceman. They married in 1947, and Laurence brought her to Mill Valley where he had settled after the war with his aunt Ruth Boericke White, the widow of Ralston White, who owned the Garden of Allah. Beryl and Laurence spent two weeks living at the famous Mill Valley residence before moving into their own home, named El Nido (The Nest), ...

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    Oral History of Beryl Jean Symmes
  8. Oral History of Jean Barnard - Oral History

    Jean Barnard was born in New York on October 30th, 1918 and graduated from Vassar College in 1940. Jean was a summer visitor in Mill Valley from 1919 to 1930, her family traveling from the East Coast by train to visit her Aunt Ruth Boericke and Ruth's husband, Ralston White, at their "Garden of Allah" estate. During her visits to Mill Valley, Jean's family would take the train up the winding mountain railroad and enjoy Mill Valley's scenic outdoo...

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    Jean Barnard, photo by Philip J. Planert
  9. Oral History of Ruth White Bowie - Oral History

    Ruth White Bowie was one of Mill Valley's grande dames in the true sense, though she would have deplored the use of the term. Ruth was born in San Francisco, and she and her twin sister were educated at Miss West's private school in the city, then at the Waltham School for Girls near Boston and Briarcliff Manor on the Hudson. In 1910, Ruth married Ralston L. White, a member of one of Mill Valley's most influential families. In this oral history, ...

    Record Type: Archive

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  10. Poster of "Early Founders of Mill Valley", date unknown
  11. Ralston and Ruth White, date unknown
  12. The Arches, date unknown - Print, Photographic

    2015.005.001

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    The Arches, date unknown

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