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Czarine Boxall Canada travel album
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Czarine Boxall Mexico travel albums
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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.
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Travel album of San Diego and vicinity
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Travel album of snapshots of people and sights in San Diego, U.S. and Mexico border area, and other locations, possibly along a railroad trip. 46 photographs, 2 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches each. The compiler/photographer is unidentified. Views include: young men in uniforms camping; San Diego County Courthouse; Los Banos bathhouse; Hotel del Coronado; Coronado Beach and Boat House; trains; U.S. and Mexico border monument; customs building; a dam; an ostrich farm.
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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.
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Photograph albums of travel in the United States and Canada and life in Los Angeles
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Two photographs albums of amateur photographs with one depicting a trip from Arizona to the East Coast in 1907, and the second showing images of a family in Los Angeles, California, in the early 1920s. The first volume contains 75 snapshots documenting a trip beginning on July 11, 1907, from O'Neill's Point at the Grand Canyon, Arizona, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, Santa Barbara, Yosemite Valley, San Francisco, Alaska, British Columbia, Banff in Canada, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the St. Lawrence River, and ending with photographs at Mt. Washington in August 1908. Each location is only represented by a few photographs, often depicting travel, the natural scenery including moutnains, glaciers, and big trees, and buildings such as hotels; there is one photograph of the ruins of the San Francisco city hall after the 1906 earthquake. The album has a handwritten title page: "Bess H. Specht. 1907. 133 Carver Street, East End. Pittsburgh, Pa." The photographs are captioned, including one that identifies the trip participants as: Alice Lyle, J.C. McCormick, Anna Bell, Bess Specht, Carrie Alston, Dell. Smith, and May Lyle. There are also five photographs of an infant labeled Taylor Salsgiver. The second volume, by an unidentified compiler, has 77 snapshots showing children and family members, activities, and residences in Los Angeles, California, ca. 1920-1921. There are views of neighborhoods, including houses at 2102 Third Avenue, at the corner of South St. Andrews Place and West 16th (now Venice Blvd.) and 1626 5th Ave. in Los Angeles, Catalina Island, Bimini Baths, the Japanese Gardens, and Venice among others. A 1923 school play program and three copies of the 1925 Los Angeles High School Commencement program are laid in at back. Many of the photographed are captioned with dates and brief labels in pen.
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Yosemite travel album
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A travel album of snapshots and reminiscences in typescript pages documenting the camping trip of eight young women and men through Yosemite in 1909. The majority of snapshots are accompanied by captions in a contemporary hand. Views include the iconic Yosemite waterfalls, redwood trees, and geologic features, and show the group hiking, relaxing, riding burros, and cooking at the campground. The album begins with a two-page whimsical poem titled "To Yosemite" about preparing for the trip, and is signed Renette Felt. The back of the album has a nine-page typescript travelogue titled "Snapshots About Camp" (unsigned; presumably by Felt), followed by a three-page typescript titled "A Knocker's View of the Yosemite Trip or a Few Bum Jokes," signed by William H. Hughes, one of the travelers.
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Travel album to Great Britain
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An album of commercial black-and-white photographs depicting popular tourist destinations in England sometime in the 1930s. The album begins with one exterior view and several interior views of the SS Europa ocean liner of the North German Lloyd line. Once in Great Britain, there are views of London, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, Lincoln, York, the Lake region, Tintern Abbey, Raglan Castle, Chepstow Castle, North Devon, Clovelly, Exeter, and Bournemouth. The images depict landmarks including cathedrals, castles, town streets, and well-known residences and buildings, that are all identified in handwritten captions. There are no personal photographs included and no indication of the compiler or owner. The photographs of Clovelly are hand-tinted.
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