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Power, Robert H. Collection.

Collection Number: D-063

Correspondence, commission work notes, exhibits, newspapers and magazinearticles, publications and speeches, and research project notes relatedto Power's interest in Francis Drake and the San Francisco Bay. Restaurateur, historian and author of Drake's landing in California: a case for San Francisco Bay (1973) and Francis Drake & San Francisco Bay: a beginning of the British Empire (1974).

Finding Aid

Finding Aid on the Online Archive of California

Inclusive Dates

1950-1984.

Extent

2.4 linear feet

Subject

California History

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