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Automobile travel and mountain climbing photograph album
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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 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.
mssHM 81399
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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