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Miss Pugsley travel album
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Francine Smith and Carroll Haven Smith travel album
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Photograph album containing more than 150 black and white photographs documenting a 1913 automobile trip from San Francisco to New York via Los Angeles, Reno, Salt Lake City, Laramie, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, and Niagara Falls, accompanied by a 41-page handwritten narrative of the trip as far as Kansas City, written by Francine Smith, and approximately 70 additional photographs of one or more vacation trips taken in California. The trip was made in a 60 HP Locomobile owned and driven by Carroll Haven Smith of San Francisco, who was accompanied by his wife, Francine, and Mr. R. E. Hilton. Also includes newspaper clipping with article about Carroll Haven Smith's brother Reginald Smith.
mssHM 83445
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Western travel diary
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Travel diary by an unknown author documenting a train trip across the United States from Massachusetts to Yellowstone National Park and ending in Cleveland, Ohio. The diary is accompanied by a complete transcript.
mssHM 83423
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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.
mssHM 82592
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Automobile travel and mountain climbing photograph album
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The photographs in the album document four different expeditions undertaken in Oregon by four young men who traveled together between 1908 and 1912. The excursions include an ascent of Mount Hood in 1908 (including a stay at the Cloud Cap Inn), a fishing trip on the Nehalem River in 1909, deer hunting near West Fork in 1912, and an undated automobile trip through central Oregon. The album contains 182 black-and-white photographs, several of which were produced by Oregon commercial photographer George M. Weister. The photographs for the first three excursions are captioned; those for the car trip are not.
mssHM 83836
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Mercedes Bryant photograph travel album of Omnibus College tour
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The photographs, postcards, and ephemera document the travels of the participants in the 1931 Omnibus College tour, the first traveling summer school excursion for the college. The tour took the students through Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Montana, and Wyoming. The album contains over 300 photographs, all identified, 77 postcards, and various ephemera. With the album is a 14-page typewritten journal of the trip, along with over 12 loose photographs and postcards (one written by Mercedes Bryant to her mother, Etta). The album also includes 40 photographs taken by Mercedes Bryant in 1932 of locations in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
mssHM 83850
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West coast travel diary of a woman
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A western train trip diary of a young woman as she traveled from Chicago to the west coast in 1915. On the front page it is written "For Neva from Carrie." On the cover of the leather diaries, "My Travels" is lettered in gold gilt. The author traveled from Chicago to southern California with a stopover at the Grand Canyon, Los Angeles and San Diego where she celebrated her 32nd birthday. Then it was up the coast to Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Yosemite National Park, Oregon and Washington, and then it was over to Yellowstone National Park and back home to Salina, Kansas. There is a photo which accompanies the diary of a young woman in a hammock, which could be either Carrie or Neva. Also at the rear of the diary are a number of people listed with their addresses.
mssHM 83415