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Czarine Boxall Mexico travel albums

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Description: These three albums depict a lengthy excursion taken by Czarine Boxall in 1945 to Mexico City, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tehucacán, Orizaba, Córdoba, Fortín de las Flores, Cuernavaca, Taxco, Morelia, Pátzcuaro, Guadalajara and Mazatlán, as documented by snapshots, captioned postcards and the compiler's own typewritten account, which is bound in with the pages of photographs and snapshots. Each of the three volumes contains extensive commentary about her trip as incorporated by Ms. Boxall on typewritten sheets of paper bound in with the images. The albums are each marked "Mexico" on the front cover.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1945.
Call number: mssHM 83458-83460
Creator: Boxall, Czarine (1905-1988)(Opens in new tab)

Series III. Mexico

Visual Materials

Includes photographs depicting markets, street scenes, street vendors, churches, indigenous people, and villages, as well as images depicting Mazatlán; Mexico City and environs; Taxco and Cuernavaca, including views of the Santa Prisca church and of cockfights; and Punta Banda, in which several photographs show people camping and painting. Many of the photographs are very small snapshots, 7 x 9 cm (2 x 3.5 in.) or smaller, taken by unidentified photographers; examples are in Box 6, Sleeves 1-3 and 6.

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Photograph album of a trip on S.S. Grenada : views of Cuba, Grenada, Trinidad, Venezuela, and Mexico

Visual Materials

A disbound photograph album with 85 commercial and family photographs documenting travel aboard the S.S. Grenada to locations including Havana, Cuba; Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Chihuahua, Mexico; Venezuela; Grenada; and Port of Spain, Trinidad. There are several port scenes in various locations, showing ships, local vendors, and coal being loaded onto ships. Photographs taken in Havana show the harbor, including the sunken remains of the USS Maine; the cathedral; and Castillo del Morro. Photographs of Venezuela show indigenous dwellings and the Orinoco River. Photographs of Mexico show views of Mexico City including interiors of the Castillo de Chapultepec, an aqueduct in Chihuahua, and the city of Orizaba.

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William Hertrich travel album

Visual Materials

A photograph album of 69 snapshots chronicling William Hertrich's travels to Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, and the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935-1936 in San Diego, California. Photographs of Alaska show the town of Dawson, McKinley National Park, glaciers, and two views of native Alaskan villages. Photographs in Hawaii show scenery around Honolulu, especially details of trees, plants and gardens, which are identified by name in captions. Photographs of Mexico show Cuernavaca, Mazatlán, and a pyramid at Teotihuacan. Hertrich does not appear in any photographs, but there is one photograph of his wife Margarete Hertrich with a woman identified only as Jean.

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Czarine Boxall Canada travel album

Manuscripts

This photo album portrays a lengthy excursion taken by Czarine Boxall in August and September 1947 to Lake Louise, Jasper and Prince Rupert, as depicted by snapshots, captioned postcards, and the compiler's own typewritten account, which is bound in with the pages of photographs and snapshots. The volume also contains a full itinerary of the trip, probably generated by the compiler using information supplied by the tour operator. The album is marked "Northwest Canada" on the front cover.

mssHM 83461

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Photograph album depicting travel in Central Mexico

Manuscripts

Album containing photographs taken during a 1905 train tour of Mexico. The photographs depict people and places throughout Mexico including Monterrey, Mexico City, Guanajuato, and Queretaro; there are also several photographs of the travelers and tour employees. The photographs are numbered and there is an index glued on the rear pastedown providing a description and location for all the photographs in the album. A souvenir brochure laid into the album indicates that the trip was a Raymond & Whitcomb Tour, which departed from Boston, New York, and Philadelphia on February 9, 1905. The brochure lists the names of the travelers.

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Mexico travel photograph album

Visual Materials

A photograph album of tourists sightseeing in Mexico, including Mazatlan, Ruiz (Nayarit), Mexico City, Guadalupe, Xochimilco, Cuernevaca, and Tasco. Images show street scenes, markets, churches and monasteries, a bullfight, the pyramids at Teotihuacan, Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl volcanoes, and the Desert of the Lions (Desierto de los Leones).

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