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Journal of a trip to California
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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.
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Motor trip from New York to California photograph album
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A photograph album covering an automobile trip from New York to California during the summer of 1921. Also: 22 loose photographs, two postcards, and a blank sheet of stationery from "Hotel Grant," Duchesne, Utah.
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Diary of a trip to California
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The diary chronicles Margaret's travels from June 10 to August 27, 1911, primarily in Northern California. The first week of the journal details her trip alone by train from Niagara Falls to California, with descriptions of Niagara Falls and sites in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona including Cripple Creek, Albuquerque, and the Grand Canyon; some entries include observations of local Native Americans. The rest of the journal consists of descriptions of travels by train and car in California. Locations visited in Southern California include Los Angeles, Pasadena, Venice Beach, Pomona, and Santa Barbara. After June 23, Margaret was based in the Bay Area town of San Rafael with multiple excursions to San Francisco and around Northern California. Her entries describe people met and interacted with, travel methods, homes and architecture, local landmarks and history, flora and landscape, missions and churches, and weather. There are frequent mentions of Aunt May and Uncle Will, who met her in Pasadena and possibly lived in San Rafael; Aunt May, and occasionally Uncle Will, usually accompanied her on her excursions to San Francisco and around California. Entries regarding San Francisco mention Ethel Barrymore plays, the Cliff House restaurant, Golden Gate Park and its zoo and Japanese Tea Garden, Chinatown, and the effects of the 1906 earthquake. She briefly describes attending a women's suffrage event (an Equality Tea) on August 4 and rally on August 25 and mentions a suffrage amendment on the ballot that year in California. Sites traveled to in Northern California include St. Helena and the Chabot estate vineyards; the Guerneville area and the Russian River; Santa Rosa, including a visit to Luther Burbank and his gardens; a fruit farm in Los Gatos; and Eureka and other areas in Humboldt County. The journal also includes a draft or copy of a letter from Margaret to her mother written in San Rafael and dated August 27. The final nine pages of the diary are additional notes on travels in Humboldt County, many of which are crossed out. There are also several pages of loose notes, two envelopes, and a receipt. The journal is unbound and is handwritten in ink on loose paper.
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Alice D. Perkins travel scrabooks of trips to Colorado, California and Mexico
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The scrapbook covers two trips, by train, that Perkins took with Raymond-Whitcomb, Inc. The first is a trip to Colorado and California in 1882 and the second is a trip to Mexico in 1888. The first excursion made stops at Pueblo and Denver, Colorado; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Yosemite National Park, California. The second excursion made stops at Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Quéretaro, and Mexico City, Mexico. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, postcards, as well as a "Pocket Guide to Mexico," and "Brief Guide to Mexico City." There is also a handwritten reminiscence of the excursions written by Perkins' granddaughter in 1920.
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William Noble Lacey Yosemite travel journal
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A typed account of William N. Lacey's "honeymoon" trip to Yosemite with his wife Ruth. Lacey gives details regarding the couple's preparation for the trip, including making their own sleeping bag, their journey there, and their hikes and experiences camping as well as descriptions of local plants and wildlife they encountered. Lacey specifically writes about running into Frank Capra, who was a student at Throop College at the time and also hiking in Yosemite. The journal contains 39 photographs throughout and a graph showing miles hiked each day and elevation gain.
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A trip from England to California
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The journal, which is made up of letters Cowan wrote back to friends in England, covers her voyage from Liverpool to New York City on the ship Etruria, and her train trip across the country to Loomis and Monterey, California. Cowan writes in great detail about her fellow passengers and the scenery around her. She also describes the ship Etruria and the train on which she travels and often makes comments regarding the odd cultural behavior of Americans. Cowan also gives detailed descriptions of the events that take place around her including a fire that stopped her train near Truckee, California; Cowan and her fellow passengers eventually had to hike to another train. The handwritten journal is illustrated with clippings from magazines and Cowan's hand-drawn sketches.
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