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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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Photographic Travel Album of the Southern and Western United States
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This personal album features artistically-composed photographs of often-visited sights and scenery from Louisiana to the Western United States. The photographs were taken by an unknown photographer, and were beautifully printed and mounted, with hand-lettered ink captions. Thirty-six of the forty-nine photographs are of California cities, landmarks or landscapes, but there are also views of New Orleans, Texas, and Arizona. This collection includes photographs of Missions San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano; San Fernando, Santa Barbara, San Miguel, and Carmel; Chinatown in San Francisco; Golden Gate Park; Mt. Tamalpais; Hotel Potter in Santa Barbara; Los Angeles; Long Beach; Avalon Bay in Santa Catalina Island; Riverside, California; Ocean Park; and Rancho Camulos. Of note are two photos at the Santa Barbara Mission that include clergy posed in the scenes. Other California locations include Redlands, Riverside and city scenes in San Francisco. There are views of buildings in New Orleans; the Alamo (San Antonio, Texas); San Xavier Mission (Texas); the ruins of Casa Grande (Arizona); and landscapes of Texas and Arizona. This album was probably owned by "C. W. Hornick," whose name is engraved on the album's front cover; he may also be the photographer. Item titles transcribed from written captions for each photograph.
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Photograph albums of travel in the United States and Canada and life in Los Angeles
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Two photographs albums of amateur photographs with one depicting a trip from Arizona to the East Coast in 1907, and the second showing images of a family in Los Angeles, California, in the early 1920s. The first volume contains 75 snapshots documenting a trip beginning on July 11, 1907, from O'Neill's Point at the Grand Canyon, Arizona, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, Santa Barbara, Yosemite Valley, San Francisco, Alaska, British Columbia, Banff in Canada, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the St. Lawrence River, and ending with photographs at Mt. Washington in August 1908. Each location is only represented by a few photographs, often depicting travel, the natural scenery including moutnains, glaciers, and big trees, and buildings such as hotels; there is one photograph of the ruins of the San Francisco city hall after the 1906 earthquake. The album has a handwritten title page: "Bess H. Specht. 1907. 133 Carver Street, East End. Pittsburgh, Pa." The photographs are captioned, including one that identifies the trip participants as: Alice Lyle, J.C. McCormick, Anna Bell, Bess Specht, Carrie Alston, Dell. Smith, and May Lyle. There are also five photographs of an infant labeled Taylor Salsgiver. The second volume, by an unidentified compiler, has 77 snapshots showing children and family members, activities, and residences in Los Angeles, California, ca. 1920-1921. There are views of neighborhoods, including houses at 2102 Third Avenue, at the corner of South St. Andrews Place and West 16th (now Venice Blvd.) and 1626 5th Ave. in Los Angeles, Catalina Island, Bimini Baths, the Japanese Gardens, and Venice among others. A 1923 school play program and three copies of the 1925 Los Angeles High School Commencement program are laid in at back. Many of the photographed are captioned with dates and brief labels in pen.
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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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Traveling photographers
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