Robert B. Blair, Arthur Jones, and Fred Jones automobile travel photographs | Collections | The Huntington

Robert B. Blair, Arthur Jones, and Fred Jones automobile travel photographs | Collections | The Huntington

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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.
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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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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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Rae Ione Fritch, Nina Alvide Harris, Allys B. Collings and Dorothy Andrist automobile travel scrapbook
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This scrapbook/photo album is an assemblage of souvenirs compiled by four young North Dakota women who traveled by automobile across the United States in 1933, eventually reaching the Chicago World's Fair of that year (the "Century of Progress" Exposition). They passed through 32 of the 48 states and acquired souvenirs ranging from postcards, maps, and other ephemera items to samples of mineral and botanical materials. In the inside back cover is a newspaper clipping about the women's trip.
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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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