Album of photographs and postcards of Western United States trip | Collections | The Huntington

Album of photographs and postcards of Western United States trip | Collections | The Huntington

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[Photograph album of a trip through the western and southern United States]
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Photograph album chiefly containing amateur snapshots possibly taken by Elon L. Yeomans of Wayne County, New York, from travels through the Western and Southern Unites States, and Quebec, Canada, dating from the early 1900s. The images primarily depict scenic views of natural landscapes and other tourist destinations and landmarks from locations in Colorado (including Grand Junction); California (including Riverside, Los Angeles, Catalina Island, Mount Lowe in the San Gabriel Mountains, Santa Barbara including the Santa Barbara Mission, Pacific Grove, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco); Mount Shasta; the Columbia River; Seattle, Washington; Mammoth Hot Springs; Yellowstone; Quebec, Canada, and the Saguenay River; Charleston, South Carolina; Savannah, Georgia; and Florida. Most of the photographs have handwritten captions identifying the locations depicted.
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Photograph albums of a Japanese businessman's trip to the United States
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Two albums of photographs taken by a Japanese businessman of his trip to the United States in the early 1930s. The man appears to have been Yaroku Katayama, who was engaged in export trade in the 1930s and 1940s, and appears in a few photographs, including one aboard the passenger ship Taiyo Maru with Japanese parliamentarian Mitsuhashi Shiroji. The two small albums have many handwritten captions in Japanese, and a few in English. The date 1932 is written in two captions in both albums. The small black-and-white snapshots depict street scenes and scenery in Niagara Falls, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Chicago, and in Arizona, where he traveled by train on the Santa Fe Railway. One of the albums is primarily of scenes in Hawaii, especially Honolulu, where he stopped en route to his return to Japan.
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Photograph album of an automobile road trip from Chicago to Arizona
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An album of 116 photographs with handwritten captions documenting a 1935 automobile excursion from Chicago, Illinois, to Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) in Arizona. The unidentified young, male photographer and his companions crossed the Great Plains to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, then proceeded to southern Utah and northern Arizona to visit other national parks including Zion, Bryce Canyon, and Grand Canyon. Photographs depict scenery and natural wonders such as geysers and mud pots in Yellowstone, as well as corn fields in Iowa and wheat fields in Nebraska. The travelers are also seen fishing, camping and hiking along the way. The album also includes scenes in Chicago and seven images of their wrecked automobile after a crash in Wyoming.
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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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Abraham Lincoln photograph album
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A photographic album with 59 images showing the places where Abraham Lincoln lived in Illinois and Kentucky. The towns and cities featured include Elizabethtown, Kentucky; Hodgensville, Kentucky; Lincoln City, Indiana; Petersburg, Illinois; Springfield, Illinois; and Chicago, Illinois. Most of the photographs show the exteriors of buildings, with a few interior views, particularly of Lincoln's house in Springfield, Illinois. A manuscript letter from compiler Albert C. Grier to Milwaukee Lincolniana collector John E. Burton, attached to the rear pastedown, explains how the album was assembled.
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Photograph album of Western United States and New York State
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An album with 66 photographs of various locations in New York State and the Western United States, including California, Washington, Texas, and Arizona. Images of New York include the New York City harbor, Battery Park, the Flatiron Building, Thousand Islands, the town of Clayton, and the city of Ogdensburg. Views of the Western states include street scenes in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California; the Cascade Range of mountains; an "Indian Fair" in the city of Toppenish and other places in the Yakama (also spelled Yakima) Indian Reservation in Washington; the city of San Antonio in Texas; and the Mojave Desert in Arizona. There are also single views of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Northern Pacific Railway, and New Orleans.
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