White, Ralston | Mill Valley Public Library

2 El Capitan, date unknown - Print, Photographic

2022.002.072

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Letter from Mill Valley & Mt. Tamalpais Scenic Railway Secretary H.W. Carothers to Ralston L. White regarding a check for stock dividends - Ephemera

Form letter from Mill Valley & Mt. Tamalpais Scenic Railway Secretary H.W. Carothers to Ralston L. White, May 10, 1913, regarding a check for stock dividends. White was president of the Tamalpais Land & Water Company from 1910-1943. Check for dividends was originally enclosed with letter.

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Letter from Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway Secretary H.W. Carothers to Ralston L. White regarding certificates of stock - Ephemera

Letter from Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway Secretary H.W. Carothers to Ralston L. White, June 21, 1913, regarding certificates of stock in the Railway for Lawrence W. Symmes and Harold Lee Boericke. White was president of the Tamalpais Land & Water Company from 1910-1943. Stock certificates were originally enclosed with letter.

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Letter from Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway to Ralston L. White - Ephemera

Letter from Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway to Ralston L. White, March 2, 1917. White was president of the Tamalpais Land & Water Company from 1910-1943. Letter documents receipt of "certificate #34 for ten (10) shares of stock of the Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway for transfer. Letter is signed "Thomas J. Kent by Geo W. Hall".

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Oral History of Edna Foster - Oral History

Edna Deming Foster was born March 18, 1894, in Ashland, Oregon, and came to Mill Valley in 1923. After graduating from University of California, Berkeley, Edna married Henry Foster in 1921 and the couple moved into a house on Lovell Avenue in Mill Valley on Armistice Day, 1923. Edna quickly became involved in the PTA at Old Mill School, the Outdoor Art Club, and other local community affairs. In this oral history, Edna recounts her time at UC Ber...

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Oral History of George R. Pimlott - Oral History

George R. Pimlott was born September 1, 1905 in San Francisco. Shortly after the Great San Francisco Earthquake hit in 1906, George's family moved to Mill Valley. He attended Summit School, was in the first graduating class of Old Mill School, and graduated from Tamalpais High School. George became an electrician and worked together with his father at their family business, Electricians Inc. in Mill Valley until the Depression. After a few stints...

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Oral History of Gordon Foster - Oral History

The Reverend Gordon Foster was born August 28, 1914 in Detroit. His father was dean of Springfield College in Massachusetts, and while the family lived there young Gordon contracted polio and lost the use of one arm. While being treated in Warm Springs, Georgia, the family became friends with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his family. Gordon's family subsequently moved to southern California, where he met his wife Marjorie while in college. After ...

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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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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, ...

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