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Automobile travel and mountain climbing photograph album

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1908-1912.
Call number: mssHM 83836
Provenance: Purchased from Jordan Antiques & Antiquarian Books, March 2019.
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Raught family automobile travel photograph albums

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These photo albums document automobile trips taken around the western United States and western Canada between 1915 and 1933, principally for recreational purposes. Destinations range from Yellowstone National Park to Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada and include various locations in California, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Mexico. There are also a number of photographs of family events, some of which may not have been part of the motor excursions. Only a very few snapshots do not have captions. One of the volumes also contains a State of Washington license permit for a Black 1915 Dodge and a Department of Interior automobile permit allowing the Raught family to enter the National Parks in their Dodge from August 28 to December 31, 1915.

mssHM 83447-83448

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Photograph album of automobile trips through the West and Mexico

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A photograph album containing 128 photographs documenting two separate excursions by automobile, one undertaken in 1937 and the other in 1939. The first trip appears to have been taken by a family group of five who may have lived in Iowa or Missouri. Their trip photographs are all captioned, and include images of their group and the car, the roads, the sights they visited, and sometimes motels or cabins. They traveled through Texas, New Mexico (including Laguna Pueblo), Arizona, and California, where they visited numerous locations. They are seen at stops in and between Los Angeles and San Francisco, including missions, Hollywood, and three snapshots taken at the Huntington Library. A typed record of the miles traveled, gas used, and cabins they stayed in is pasted to the back of the album. The 1939 trip features mostly photographs of Texas, including parks, landmarks, and visits to friends' houses. They also visited Mexico, including a bullfighting ring, and New Orleans, Louisiana. One photograph of a wooden shack in Arkansas is captioned indicating it is an African American dwelling.

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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.

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Photograph album of automobile travel throughout the United States, (bulk 1912-1923)

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This photograph album documents the life and travels of an unidentified woman from 1912 to 1923 throughout the United States (with one image of a dog from 1906). The woman seems to be closely associated with the Meier & Frank department store in Portland, Oregon. There are photographs of Meier & Frank company picnics, sports teams, and other activities. Notably, many of the travel images include automobile travel and feature the unidentified woman as the driver. There are extensive photographs throughout California and Oregon. Images captured in California document Santa Monica and Venice beaches; Mount Wilson and the Pasadena area including an image of the Japanese Gardens at The Huntington; Los Angeles movies studios; the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair, called the Panama Pacific International Exposition; San Gabriel and San Fernando missions; the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, and more. Images captured in Oregon document the Meier & Frank building, the Portland Automobile Club grounds; Mount Hood; Oregon City Falls; and the Powell Valley Road to Gresham. Rock Island, Illinois, and Grand Rapids, Michigan are also heavily featured in the photographs. The images depict the photographer's family; friends; travels; holidays; outdoor activities such as hunting, fishing, and camping; visiting tourist sites; the photographer's rose garden; and more. Additional locations include Tijuana, Mexico; Yellowstone National Park; Idaho; Iowa; and 1918 Armistice Day celebrations in Salt Lake City, Utah. Nearly all photographs are dated and captioned in ink on the front of the photograph but are not in chronological order.

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Photograph album depicting travel in Central Mexico

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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.

mssHM 83832

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Miss Pugsley travel album

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Miss Pugsley entitled her diary: "Stepping Westward: The Log of a Spinster's Transcontinental Trip." The album opens with Pugsley leaving Boston via train and then traveling across New York, through Niagara and Detroit, to Chicago and then across the plains of Kansas to New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington State, and back via Canada. The album is illustrated with 60 photographs and over 40 postcards (most of which are captioned and identified). Pugsley highlights various parts of her trips including: the Harvey Museum in Albuquerque, Inscription Rock, the Grand Canyon, Hopi Indians, Los Angeles, Pasadena, the San Gabriel Mission, the beaches of Santa Monica and Venice, Hollywood, the Mission Inn in Riverside, San Francisco, Yosemite, Mt. Hood, Seattle, and Victoria (British Columbia). Much of her trip was done via automobile. A modern transcription accompanies the diary.

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Automobile travel and mountain climbing photograph album

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