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Photograph album depicting travel in Central Mexico

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1905.
Call number: mssHM 83832
Provenance: Purchased from McBride Rare Books, March 2019.
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Mercedes Bryant photograph travel album of Omnibus College tour

Manuscripts

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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Mexico travel photograph album

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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).

photCL 370

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[Photograph album of scenes in Mexico]

Visual Materials

Photograph album with various snapshots chiefly documenting a trip to Mexico by Los Angeles, California, resident Charles A. Finlayson around 1930, including images of buildings and streets in Mexico City, a visit to a park with deer, buildings under construction, the canals of Xochimilco, and Aztec ruins at Teotihuacan, as well as images, presumably, of Finlayson. Throughout the album, there are also images of the derailment of a locomotive and train cars, presumably of the National Railroad of Mexico, which were carrying military cannons, with photographs of executed men who had been hanged from utility poles along the tracks.

photCL 371

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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 of Barbara Hartman's automobile travels across the United States

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A travel album of approximately 500 snapshots and a few lithographic cards and commercially-produced photographs, compiled by a young woman named Barbara Hartman who lived in Seattle and possibly the Los Angeles area. The photographs are annotated with neatly-written captions that contain identifications and recollections of multiple automobile trips across the American West, to the East Coast and to the South in the years 1946-1949. The album documents ski trips to Snoqualmie Pass, Washington; nature and wildlife in Oregon and Wyoming; excursions to Glacier National Park and a stay at Many Glacier Hotel; the French Quarter, New Orleans; Miami and the Florida Keys; the Mammoth Caves, Kentucky; Washington D.C.; Mount Vernon; Philadelphia; New York City; Chiricahua National Monument and the town of Hayden, Arizona; the redwoods of Northern California; several popular tourist destinations in Southern California (including a visit to the Huntington Library); and repeat visits to a mountain cabin in Lake Arrowhead, California. A couple of different young women, identified only by first names, and sometimes her parents and others are pictured on trips with Barbara, who presumably took most of the photographs. There are scenes of large family gatherings and some trips to relatives' houses in different parts of the country. Photographs at the beginning of the album show Barbara and other young women outside a house in Seattle with their cats; she is also pictured ice skating with friends in Chicago and on jaunts with other women to New York City and Boston. Other scenes of note include a tour of antebellum plantation homes in Natchez, Mississippi; the Date Festival in Indio, California; and two women posing in a tourist "Tijuana jail" photo booth. This album provides a rich visual representation of automobile touring in postwar America and the experiences of women travelers.

photCL 612

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Czarine Boxall Mexico travel albums

Manuscripts

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.

mssHM 83458-83460

Photograph album depicting travel in Central Mexico

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