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Photograph album of automobile road trips across the United States and into Mexico | Collections | The Huntington

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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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W. C. White photograph album of road trip through Mexico City
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Photographs of an early automobile tour of Mexico City and vicinity, taken in April, 1906, approximately four years before the upheaval of the Mexican Revolution. The traveler, most likely an American, photographed his automobile in many locations, often where burros or horse wagons are mostly seen on the road. A woman is seen in the passenger seat sometimes, and possibly another car is part of the touring group. Images include stops at historic buildings, landmarks, street scenes, and the "Noche Triste Tree" in Mexico City; old Spanish architecture in Lerma; and travel through the countryside to Toluca. Local residents appear throughout, including men gathering water at a cistern, a woman washing clothes outside her house, and people at a Mexican National Railway train station. There are three images identified as "General Gonzales, Governor of the State of Mexico," riding in a car with other officials. Handwriting inside the album's cover identifies it as "W. C. White's pictures - Mexican trip, April 1906," and there are detailed captions throughout.
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Photograph album of an automobile road trip titled "Trip West 1928,", (bulk 1928)
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A photograph album documenting an automobile trip taken by friends across the western United States (with excursions into Canada and Tijuana, Mexico), during the summer of 1928. The first page is titled "Trip West 1928" and includes an image of an automobile covered with travel decals captioned: "Home after 10,000 miles." Photographs show the travelers visited many national parks, including Crater Lake, Yellowstone, Glacier, and Yosemite, as well as other tourist attractions such as Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak, Catalina Island, Hollywood, the Redwood Highway, Vancouver, and Canada's Waterton National Park. Some images show the unidentified young men dealing with automobile trouble, hiking in the mountains, camping, and posing with an "old" and "new" car. The majority of the snapshots were taken in the West, but there are some images of tourist attractions in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, all identified in handwritten captions. The album has three pages titled "My Pals" for autographs; several men and women signed their names and home towns, dated between 1929 and 1933.
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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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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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Album of photographs and postcards of Western United States trip
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An album with 117 photographs and 129 postcards chronicling an unidentified family's trip to the American West starting from Chicago, Illinois, on July 19, 1917. The images are chiefly snapshots and color lithographic postcards.The images follow the family's progress from Illinois to Missouri, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Canada, and Alaska. Includes photographs of the family on the steps in from of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; postcards of Kansas City, Missouri; photographs and postcards of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Grand Canyon, Arizona; California, particularly Santa Catalina Island, Coronado Beach, San Diego, Riverside (especially the Mission Inn), Long Beach, Santa Barbara, the Yosemite Valley, and San Francisco; Oregon, including Portland, the Columbia River, and Bayocean; Seattle, Washington; Canada, including Victoria, Vancouver, Alert Bay, and Prince Rupert, in British Columbia; a train ride on the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway through the Rockies; Lake Louise, Banff, and Alberta, in the province of Alberta; Alaska, including totem poles, Wrangell, Taku Glacier, Juneau, and Skagway. There are several photographs of the family's modes of transportation, including automobiles, steamboats (especially the "Princess Alice"), and trains. The postcards are issued by Fred Harvey, Frank H. Nowell, Louis H. Pederson (L.H.P.), Cross & Dimmitt, George Weister, and Fred Button.
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