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A.F. Tripp notes of an excursion to California in the winter and spring of 1893
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Notes of an excursion to California in the winter and spring of 1893
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Alpha Marsh Cary travel diary
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Although the diary is unsigned, it is reasonable to believe the diary was written by Alpha Marsh Cary from San Diego. The diary was kept during a journey that she and her parents took from San Diego to the East Coast and back again. Besides visiting family along the way, and in upstate New York, the family traveled through Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and New York City. On their journey home, they visited family in Colorado, stopped at the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, and visited San Francisco. The author details some of the activities she did while on the trip including reading, sewing, playing cards, going to amusement parks and Vaudeville shows, and seeing "moving pictures." The family also toured a medical museum near Washington, DC, led by its head, Dr. Daniel Lamb, and the Johns Hopkins Institute. They traveled by automobiles, train, streetcars, and even a steamer.
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Tourists in southern California, 1875-1903 :
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Paul F. Allen's thesis covers the history of tourism in southern California from 1875 to 1903. Allen details the tourists who came to California, the reasons they came, the activities in which they took part, the hotels in which they stayed, and the places they visited, particularly Los Angeles, Pasadena, and San Diego. The thesis also includes a list of California guidebooks and a bibliography.
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California trip
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Diary kept by an unnamed Massachusetts man during his travels by train from Chicago to Los Angeles and his subsequent stay in California. The first half of the diary includes colorful descriptions of scenery and local people as the author traveled through St. Louis, Little Rock, New Orleans (which he called "the most foreign looking American city I know of and with the exception of Chicago, the most filthy"), El Paso, much of Arizona, and through the San Gorgonio Pass to the San Gabriel Valley. In this section the author also writes of racial segregation in the Southern states, his observance of stage actress Maud Granger and "her actor lover" on a train in Arizona, and his tour of the Arizona Territorial Prison. The second half of the diary covers his stay in California, where he had gone to see his mother and sister for the first time in 13 years. He writes of his impressions of Los Angeles as "a bright town...clean and new," of traveling up the coast to Santa Barbara, camping in Dos Pueblos Canyon, a trip to San Francisco, and his awe at seeing Mt. Shasta.
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Mary and George Svenson honeymoon photograph album
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Photograph album of a honeymoon trip in California, Oregon, and Washington bearing seventy-two original photographs and typescript travelogue. They traveled north passing the McCloud River, the Sacramento River, Castle Craigs, Mt. Shasta, Klamath Falls, Lake and Indian Reservation before arriving at one of their chief destinations, Crater Lake. After spending some time there they headed up eastern Oregon by way of Bend, Crooked River Canyon and the Deschutes before arriving in Portland where Mary had an aunt. They then traveled north to the Olympic Forest and spent some time at Olympic Hot Springs. They returned via Western Oregon.
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Myrtle Albright travel diary and scrapbook
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Scrapbook compiled by Myrtle Albright while on her transcontinental railroad trip in the summer of 1920 with her sister Julia. Their journey crossed the central Great Plains, the Southwest, with a visit to a Native American school in New Mexico, and Southern California before continuing to the San Francisco Bay area, Salt Lake City, Yellowstone, Chicago, and back to Durham. The scrapbook contains souvenir postcards and clippings, buttons for "Elliott Tours," excursion tickets and pieces of travel ephemera, and photographs. A detailed account, most likely written by Albright, describes locations visited, the sights seen, and their experiences both on the train and at various destinations. Accompanying the scrapbook is a separate 21 page hand-written account of a 1925 motor tour that describes touring in the vicinity of Washington, D.C. and Richmond, Virginia, and describes historic monuments and the weather.
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