1901 Souvenir PACIFIC GROVE California GAR34TH ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT Monterey County

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1901 Souvenir PACIFIC GROVE California GAR34TH ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT Monterey County:
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1901 Souvenir PACIFICGROVE California GAR 34TH ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT Monterey County

DESCRIPTION: 1901Promotional pamphlet for Pacific Grove,(California), “Official Souvenir[for] 34 th Annual Encampment Dep’tCalifornia & Nevada, GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) Pacific Grove,Calif. California, May 8th to11th 1901; Compiled by I. Manning King, Daily Index Print, Salinas; ColorFrontispiece of California Poppies; 38 numbered pages [pages 3 to 12 are GARrelated; pages 13 to 38 are of promotional material on Pacific Grove and thesurrounding area; 4 [unnumbered] pages of the GAR program and 10 [unnumbered]pages of local advertising; with 16 photographic illustrations in and aroundPacific Grove, the pamphlet is 6-1/2 inches by 10 inches; the following are apartial listing of contents:

Pacific Grove andvicinity photos:

Memorial Cottage – Yountville
Hospital – Yountville
Assembly Hall – Pacific Grove
Mrs. McKinley
Custom House – Monterey
Carmel Mission
Monterey Surf
Pacific Grove vignettes
El Carmelo Hotel - Pacific Grove
Del Monte Hotel – Pacific Grove
Spreckels’ Beet Sugar Factory – Salinas
Mission San Antonio
The Oaks
Street Scene
Old Mill on Sur
Salinas Tall-ho Party
Pilarcitos Grade near Del Monte

Advertising:

T. A. Work [Reality].
Chas. K. Tuttle [drugs, stationary & photogoods].
J. W. Rowling Real Estate and Insurance[Salinas].
Bullene’s Stables [Salinas] Grove Bakery andCandy Kitchen.
Hotel Abbot [Salinas].
Elite Restaurant
Central Hotel [Monterey].
Long & Gretter [Drugs].
W. T. Blackie Grain, Beans, Etc. [Salinas City].
A. M. Fitzsimmons [Real Estate]
The Everett House [Monterey].
El Carmelo Hotel.
New Jeffery House [Salinas]
L. H. Garrigus [Insurance, Grain, Real Estate,Oil Stocks].
M. Hughes Saddle and Harness Maker [Salinas].
H. B. Kessler Singer Sewing Machines [Salinas].
F. A. Hihn Co. Planning Mill & Lumber Yard[Salinas].
T. C. Reavis Dry Goods [Salinas].
S. C Landram Groceries & Provisions
Blanchard’s Candy & Ice Cream [Salinas].
Winham Bros. Real Estate [Salinas].
The Eagle Drug Store [Salinas].
Woman’s Exchange Food & Curios
The Hollenbeck Block Cigar Store
Tassajara Hot Springs [Stages from Salinas].
Jno. C. Quinn Oil Lands [San Francisco].
Francee & Burkman Furniture [Salinas].
C. S. Harris Real Estate.

DISCRIPTIVE TEXT MONTEREY COUNTY:

The Great Salinas Valley
The Carmel Valley
The Pajaro Valley
Cities, Towns, Ranches: Monterey, Pacific Grove,El Carmelo, Hotel Del Monte, Salinas City, Moss Landing, Castroville, Chualar,Soledad, Gonzales, King City, San Lucas, San Ardo, Bradley, Oil Fields, CoalMines, Tassajara Springs, Botany, Etc.

CONDITION: Verygood plus [SEE SCANS].

HISTORY: Grand Army of the Republic: The GrandArmy of the Republic was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of theUnion Army, Union Navy, Marines and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service who servedin the American Civil War for the Northern/Federal forces. Founded in 1866 inDecatur, Illinois, and growing to include hundreds of posts (local communityunits) across the nation (predominately in the North, but also a few in theSouth and West), it was dissolved in 1956 at the death of its last member,Albert Woolson (1850–1956) of Duluth, Minnesota. Linking men through theirexperience of the war, the G.A.R. became among the first organized advocacygroups in American politics, supporting voting rights for black veterans, promotingpatriotic education, helping to make Memorial Day a national holiday, lobbyingthe United States Congress to establish regular veterans\' pensions, andsupporting Republican political candidates. Its peak membership, at more than490,000, was in 1890, a high point of various Civil War commemorative andmonument dedication ceremonies. It was succeeded by the Sons of Union Veteransof the Civil War (SUVCW), composed of male descendants of Union Army and UnionNavy veterans. It held an annual \"National Encampment\" everyyear from 1866 to 1949.

Pacific Grove: Pacific Grove was founded in 1875 whenPacific Land Improvement Company, owned by David Jacks, donated acreage towardsthe first West Coast Chautauqua retreat formed by a group of Methodists who modeledthe town after Ocean Grove, New Jersey. In time, the butterflies, fragrantpines and fresh sea air brought others to the Pacific Grove Retreat to rest andmeditate. The initial camp meeting of the Pacific Coast branch of theChautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle was held in Pacific Grove in June1879. Modeled after the Methodist Sunday school teachers\' training campestablished in 1874 at Chautauqua Lake, New York, this location became part ofa nationwide educational network.

In November 1879, after the summer campers returned home,Robert Louis Stevenson wandered into the deserted campgrounds: \"I havenever been in any place so dreamlike. Indeed, it was not so much like adeserted town as like a scene upon the stage by daylight, and with no one onthe boards.\"

The Pacific Grove post office opened in 1886, closed laterthat year, and was re-opened in 1887. Pacific Grove incorporated in 1889.

Pacific Grove, like Carmel-by-the-Sea and Monterey, becamean artists\' haven in the 1890s and subsequent period. Artists of the En pleinair school in both Europe and the United States were seeking an outdoor venuewhich had natural beauty, so that Pacific Grove was a magnet for this movement.William Adam was an English painter who first moved to Monterey and thendecided on Pacific Grove for his home in 1906. At about the same time EugenNeuhaus, a German painter, arrived in Pacific Grove with his new bride. CharlesB. Judson was an artist of aristocratic lineage who painted in Pacific Groveover a long period of time beginning in 1907; Judson\'s murals decorate thehalls of the California Academy of Sciences.

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