Box 1
Contains 35 Results:
Donner Park, Museum and Lake: Donner Museum (Folder 1 of 2), 1978-1982
Correspondence, newspaper articles (photocopies), photographs (4X6), negatives, brochures, notes, and postcards regarding the Donner Memorial State Park in California, including the museum located there. Includes the May 1978 correspondence relating to a gift to the museum - a photographic reproduction of a land deed by George Donner to William Donner, 3/13/1841. Copies of the land deed can be found in Box 1, Folder 23.
Donner Park, Museum and Lake: Donner Museum (Folder 2 of 2), 1978-1980
Original newspaper articles regarding the Donner Museum or Donner Memorial State Park, 6/1/1978 through 4/24/1980, in chronological order. Most of the articles are undated.
Donner Park, Museum, and Lake: Donner Camp, 1980
Color and black and white photographs (4X6) showing a trip to the Donner campsite near Alder Creek in the Tahoe National Forest, undated. Also contains two newspaper articles, one dated 11/6/1980, the other undated.
Donner Park, Museum and Lake: Sutter's Fort, 1976
Color photographs (4X6), brochures, maps, notes, and postcards regarding the Sutter's Fort State Historic Park, in California. Some of the photographs are dated 1976.
Donner at 100 years (1946) Reunion, Springfield (Folder 1 of 2), 1945-1979
Photocopies of newspaper articles, color and black and white photographs (4X6), negatives, and correspondence regarding the Donner party during the year 1946.
Donner at 100 years (1946) Reunion, Springfield (Folder 2 of 2), 1945-1979
Original newspaper articles, 1945 through 4/16/1979, in chronological order. One undated article.
Donner at 50 years, 1935-1971
A photocopy of an Illinois State Journal article written in 1946; a photocopy of the Illinois House of Representatives resolution 176, 4/15/1971; an article relating a brief history of the Donner Party, undated; newspaper article on the death of last Donner party member, 3/26/1935; photocopies of a Reno evening Gazette article on Donner Party, 3/30/1930; photocopies of a newspaper article commemorating the Donner Party, 5/21/1896.
Donner Paper: Donnerana, 1979
Newspaper article with a poll on Donner Party, 12/10/1979; notes on Donner books and Donner Memorial State Park contact information, undated; newspaper article on modern wagon train rides, undated; list of future Donnerana objectives, undated.
Donner Medallions, 1985
Correspondence and photocopies regarding the Donner Party commemorative medallions minted by the Nevada City Mint, 1/1/1985. Also contains a receipt for 10 of the medallions, 6/17/1985.
Donner Land Deeds, 1835-1841
Photographs and photocopies of a land deed from George Donner to William Donner, 3/13/1841, and from the U.S. Government to William Donner, 9/8/1835.