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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
One of 12 copies of an oversized book produced for the participants of a car trip from Denver, Colorado, to Los Angeles, California, from July 8th to August 1, 1919. The volume contains 165 photographs tipped in on 39 pages and 23 pages of text. The images document stops in Fort Duchesne, Salt Lake City, Austin Creek, Reno, Yosemite, Tallac Lagoon, Glacier Point, San Francisco, Carpenteria, and Colorado Springs, and depict the desert and mountain landscapes, the automobile travel, and visits to landmarks, restaurants, etc. The photographs also include images of the participants including aviator Orville Wright (who may have taken the photographs). The text includes a day-by-day narrative of the journey as well as lists of "Car Equipment," "Personal Equipment," the trip participants, and two pages decorated with printed images and the text of two poems: "The God of the Open Air" and "The Desert Horseman" by Gustavus D. Pope and Sidney D. Waldon. Some of the photographs are panoramas (8.3 x 28.6 cm).
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