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Mercedes Bryant photograph travel album of Omnibus College tour
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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.
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Czarine Boxall Canada travel album
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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.
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LeRoy Crawford scrapbooks of travels
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Five scrapbooks kept by LeRoy Crawford during trips he made with his niece Etta Crawford. Each volume contains a typewritten travelogue as well as a variety of original photographs, postcards, images from magazines, cartes-de-visite, and other ephemera. Each volume was assembled by LeRoy and Etta in Chase's Lake, New York. The first photograph album (1901) depicts LeRoy and Henrietta's travels in Tennessee, Mexico, and Cuba. The second volume (1902-1903) describes the Crawfords' travels on the Northern Pacific Railroad ("this train was in all respects the most complete and comfortable one that I have ever seen," LeRoy noted) from St. Paul to Seattle, where they visited the Port Orchard Navy Yard and Moran shipyard (includes photographs of the Ocean Queen and battleship Nebraska during the early phases of their construction). The scrapbook also follows the Crawfords' visits to Oregon, San Francisco, Mt. Tamalpais, British Colombia, and San Francisco, as well as their voyage on the S.S. Newport to Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Columbia. The third scrapbook (1907), titled "The Eden Tour of Forty Days," describes their travels to Jamaica and the West Indies aboard the RMS Thames, including stops in Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad, Panama, and the Bahamas. The 1909 album consists mainly of postcards which were acquired while the Crawfords were traveling on the Union Pacific to Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Alberta, and British Columbia (on the Canadian Pacific Railroad), and also includes postcards from the Alaska Yukon Pacific Expedition (1909). The final album (1911) follows the Crawfords as they again sailed on the RMS Thames and stopped in Cuba before touring Jamaica by car.
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Photographic travel album of United States scenery
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A small, personal photograph album of primarily nature scenes in South Dakota, Washington, Alaska, Maine, and one view of Seal Rocks, San Francisco, California. The photographs are accompanied by handwritten captions that include lines of verse about nature from American poets William Cullen Bryant, W. P. Foster and possibly others. Photographs include waterfalls, ocean coast lines, lakes, and mountains, with only occasional views of people, who are unidentified. There are three panoramic bird's-eye-views of the towns of Wrangell and Skagway, Alaska.
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Automobile travel and mountain climbing photograph album
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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.
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W. R. Densmore photograph album of early automobile touring
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An early automobile photograph album and scrapbook compiled by W. R. Densmore of the Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit. The album contains over 100 professionally-made photographs, with 19 approximately 8 x 10 inches, and also contains newspaper clippings about Densmore, early automobiles, and races. The album primarily chronicles Densmore's driving tours, although it also contains material dealing with other aspects of his life. Many images chronicle the famous Los Angeles to San Francisco drive of 1904, with Densmore and three companions seen in a Packard touring car. The other men were: H. B. Larzelere of Pacific Motor Car Company, San Francisco; Wallace W. Everett, guide; and H. A. French, correspondent for The Automobile magazine. Other images record similar overland auto journeys, in the White Mountains (1905); Long Island, New York (1905); the Wilkes-Barre Mountains, Pennsylvania (1905); and a grand tour of Italy (1913). Most of the automobiles featured are early Packard models, with riders in open-air cars, often wearing goggles and duster coats.
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