TITLE: Ralph's scrap book / illustrated by his own camera and collection of photographs ; and compiled by his father, Edmund Bicknell ; Dedicated to his friends and presented to them in his memory

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A young journalist and photographer who traveled to California, especially Pasadena, Temescal Mountains, and Yosemite photographing and writing of his experiences for a Massachusetts magazine, as well as keeping a scrapbook of his adventures. 

Dying before his time, so common in the era, his mourning family found solace in preserving his words in this specially printed work.

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Illustrated by his own camera and collection of photographs, and compiled by his father Edmund Bicknell. 

 

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CHAPTERS:  Brief historical sketch -- His pure and brilliant mind -- Self-education -- The pen he loved so well -- The last stroke of a busy pen -- His last letter -- Letter from his physician -- His correspondents -- Shakespeariana -- His first poem -- Looking beyond -- Ralph's first composition -- The Essex School Journal -- Our golden anniversary -- Musings at my window -- The city of New York -- How paper is made -- Encouraging words -- Our mountain home -- Political enthusiast -- McKinley letter -- New Massachusetts inn -- Chaffee and Chamberlain -- Three-fingered Bill -- The man without the job -- Honor for Lawrence, Mass. -- Won first prize -- Modern residential city -- His loyalty -- Mexican national pastime -- Tidd was superstitious -- Humar and pathos -- Crippe Creek gold mines -- Campaigning at "Cripple" -- Jeremiah Tighfist's dream -- Pasadena ostrich farm -- His power in tragedy -- Sugar cane competition -- In the Temescal Mountains -- Mountezuma's fall -- Salt Lake City -- The land of sunshine (letters) -- Our winter home (letters) -- Shooting and fishing excursion (letters) -- A California barbeque -- Yosemite Valley (letters).

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