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Journal of a cross country automobile trip through the United States
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Journal of an automobile trip through the United States and Canada
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An illustrated journal documenting an automobile trip, in a 1918 Ford, from Massachusetts to Montana and back, in the summer of 1927, made by four individuals who appear to have been members of the same family. It is entitled "Big Chief and Yma go atrailing with nineteen eighteen. Dedicated to the friends who could not go." They met numerous other motor travelers during their trip and wrote extensively about their destinations including Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Montana, and Canada. The writer includes pointed comments about landscapes, roads, communities, and social life and customs throughout the fifteen American states and Canadian provinces the travelers visited. The author or authors are unidentified, though they refer to themselves as "Big Chief," "Yma," Mother," and "Cal." They mention in detail a visit to the Menomonie Reservation, Niagara Falls, and a meeting with photographer L.A. Huffman. The author(s) make negatives comments about people speaking Russian in the Midwest. The volume contains 11 photographs and appears to be homemade.
mssHM 84081
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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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Journal of a trip to California
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The journal chronicles a couple's six-month trip from Waukegan, Illinois through Colorado, Utah, and Mexico, to California, August 1920 to February 1921. The entries discuss: train travel, automobile travel, the couple's activities between Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles, California, visits to Tijuana and Mexicali, Mexico, San Diego, Long Beach, Venice, Hollywood, and Pasadena, California (with a visit to Busch Gardens). The journal contains 40 gelatin silver photographs taken during the trip. Following the trip narrative, the journal includes a listing of houses they bought from 1921 to 1926.
mssHM 84009
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Journal of a car trip to California
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Journal of a car trip from Washington State to California with brief visits to Mexican border cities, dated September 8, 1933 to February 8, 1934, and illustrated with 163 original snapshots, commercial photographs, and postcards. Travels occur in a 1927 Chevrolet and are primarily in California; many journal entries and photographs depict visits with the travelers' friends or family. The journey begins in the Everett, Washington area and continues to Eastern Washington with stops in Soap Lake, Spokane, and Walla Walla; the travelers then continue into Oregon, visiting Pilot Rock, Ukiah, Mount Vernon, Blue Mountains Hot Springs, and Austin. Entries for Northern California include a history and description of mining in Calaveras County and images of a large maritime hangar at Sunnyvale. In the Los Angeles area, the travelers take daytrips to the San Gabriel Valley and to the South Bay, San Pedro, and Santa Ana; the bulk of L.A.-area entries describe the aftereffects of the March 1933 Long Beach earthquake, depicted with numerous commercial photographs. Other sites visited in Southern California include Riverside, Colton, San Bernardino, Redlands, Palm Springs, and the Coachella Valley, where the diarist provides brief descriptions of a Native American trading post and of date tree cultivation; also, the Salton Sea, Plaster City, Descanso, Lake Cuyamaca and dam, Julian, Santa Ysabel, Ramona, and Lakeside. In the San Diego area, places traveled to include Escondido, Encinitas, La Jolla, Point Loma, Sunset Cliffs, Coronado Island and aviation base, Balboa Park's Indian Village and zoo, Old Town San Diego, El Cajon, Warner Hot Springs, and a few Native American reservations in the Rincon and Pala area; longer entries describe fruit orchards, the history of missions and Junipero Serra, and Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona, with several photographs of the Casa de Estudillo, the tourist attraction known as "Ramona's Marriage Place." The journal also includes several side trips to Mexican border cities, with brief entries for Mexicali and Tecate and lengthier descriptions of two visits to Tijuana. Journal is a bound scrapbook; entries and captions are handwritten in ink, and photographs and postcards are glued to pages.
mssHM 84035
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Automobile Club Cross-Country Tours
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The collection consists of 6202 black-and-white and color photographs, pen and ink drawings, and postcards, 1412 black-and-white and color negatives, 2606 black-and-white and color slides, and ephemeral materials, 1898-1982 (bulk 1920s-1930s) collected by the Automobile Club of Southern California. They form a general photographic reference collection as well as a broad visual survey of topics of interest to California motorists. Included are images of sites in North and Central America (with an emphasis on California), Europe, the Pacific Islands, and portraits, as well as images related to other subjects of interest to the Club's membership. Many of the images were published as illustrations for articles in the Club's first member magazine, Touring Topics. A large portion of the photographs were taken by authors of articles that appeared in Touring Topics; others were commissioned by the Club; and others appear to have been sent to the Club. Photographers (and authors) include, but are not limited to, Ansel Adams, Fred Archer, Viroque Baker, George Hugh Banning, Adelbert Bartlett, Virginia S. Bartlett, Andrew R. Boone, Julius Cindrich, Norman Clyde, Will Connell, Loyd Cooper, Imogen Cunningham, Asahel Curtis, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Fred Dapprich, E.H. Davis, E.E. East, John Anson Ford, Frasher, Ewing Galloway, Forman G. Hanna, Phil Townsend Hanna, Hoag and Ford, John Edwin Hoag, Bert W. Huntoon, Philip Johnston, Dr. Frederick Monsen, Dave Packwood, C.C. Pierce, Ernest M. Pratt, Putnam Studios, E. Willard Spurr, and John L. Von Blon.
photCL 375
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[Automobile Club cross-country tour?]
Visual Materials
The collection consists of 6202 black-and-white and color photographs, pen and ink drawings, and postcards, 1412 black-and-white and color negatives, 2606 black-and-white and color slides, and ephemeral materials, 1898-1982 (bulk 1920s-1930s) collected by the Automobile Club of Southern California. They form a general photographic reference collection as well as a broad visual survey of topics of interest to California motorists. Included are images of sites in North and Central America (with an emphasis on California), Europe, the Pacific Islands, and portraits, as well as images related to other subjects of interest to the Club's membership. Many of the images were published as illustrations for articles in the Club's first member magazine, Touring Topics. A large portion of the photographs were taken by authors of articles that appeared in Touring Topics; others were commissioned by the Club; and others appear to have been sent to the Club. Photographers (and authors) include, but are not limited to, Ansel Adams, Fred Archer, Viroque Baker, George Hugh Banning, Adelbert Bartlett, Virginia S. Bartlett, Andrew R. Boone, Julius Cindrich, Norman Clyde, Will Connell, Loyd Cooper, Imogen Cunningham, Asahel Curtis, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Fred Dapprich, E.H. Davis, E.E. East, John Anson Ford, Frasher, Ewing Galloway, Forman G. Hanna, Phil Townsend Hanna, Hoag and Ford, John Edwin Hoag, Bert W. Huntoon, Philip Johnston, Dr. Frederick Monsen, Dave Packwood, C.C. Pierce, Ernest M. Pratt, Putnam Studios, E. Willard Spurr, and John L. Von Blon.
photCL 375