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Photograph albums of travel in the United States and Canada and life in Los Angeles
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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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Leaves from a photograph album
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The leaves include: a. Bess (London) Fleming b. Jack London in London, Eng., 1902 c. Jack London and Bess (London) Fleming, 1903 d. Bess (London) Fleming, 1903 e. Joan London and Bess (London) Fleming, 1903 f. Joan London and Bess (London) Fleming, 1903 g. Virginia Prentiss and Bess (London) Fleming, 1903
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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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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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Photograph and scrapbook album of travel in Canada and the American South, including sites related to Mark Twain
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A travel album of snapshots, commercially-made souvenir photographs, and various postcards from two trips, titled in the album "Niagara Falls and Canada, 1937," and "Southern Trip, 1938." The traveler is unidentified except for the wooden cover with initials C.D.C. The images are primarily of buildings, statues, historical sites, scenery, and houses, with very few images of people. The album begins with images of Niagara Falls; Quebec; Montreal; Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan; and three pages devoted to memorabilia of the Dionne quintuplets born in Ontario, Canada, 1934. The second trip includes images of New Orleans; Springfield, Illinois and Lincoln's home; a postcard of an African American man captioned "Uncle Melton, Gatekeeper at Afton Villa," an Antebellum mansion in Louisiana; Mark Twain's home and Twain-related statues and sites in Hannibal, Missouri; and Natchez, Mississippi. There are also two pamphlets from the Natchez Garden Club: a tour of 12 Antebellum houses in Natchez, 1938 (16 pages); and a program for the club's 1938 "Confederate Ball." There are several postcard images of Antebellum mansions in the South, showing interiors and exteriors.
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Western Journey photograph album and travel narrative
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A volume of photographs accompanied by a typescript travel narrative by Thomas Recknagel, a Cornell University undergraduate, documenting his travels by automobile and railroad in the summer of 1938. The bound volume is titled "Western Journey" and begins with snapshots taken during a train trip from Ithaca, New York, through Chicago, to San Francisco, where Recknagel met his parents and family friends to travel by car. They headed north through Oregon to British Columbia, where their trip included a cricket match in Vancouver; Victoria; a boat trip around the Gulf Islands; and a visit to the University of British Columbia, where Arthur Recknagel had taken a visiting lecturer position. The group took a return train trip through the Rocky Mountains, the Great Lakes, and across Canada to Port McNicoll, Ontario. There are two appendices of photographs from Recknagel's parents' trip in the beginning of the year, with several snapshots of Yosemite. The back of the volume also has 20 commercial photographs (3.5 x 5-inches) of Vancouver and the Fraser River area in British Columbia. Notable in the album are a series of photographs and narrative of the rescue of a man who had attempted suicide by jumping into the sea in San Francisco.
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