Western Journey photograph album and travel narrative | Collections | The Huntington

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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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Bell family photograph albums of travel in the American West
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A collection of 10 family photograph albums, 1908-1924, chiefly of trips to tourist sites and national parks in the Western United States, depicting travel by car, mountain camping, natural scenery, and hiking. Little is known about the Bell family, but most of the snapshots have captions identifying locations and dates. One album says photographs by J. O. Downing, and there is a postcard album with postcards sent from all over the country, approximately 1910s. Album contents: Vol. 1. Sierra Club trip, Glacier National Park, 1924 -- Vol. 2. My 1923 Outing: Southern Nevada - Southern Utah - Northern Arizona (with two-page narrative describing an 1,850-mile automobile trip) -- Vol. 3. Construction of Granite Reef Dam, 1908, on the Salt River, Arizona, with workers' encampment and residences. Some snapshots of Native Americans; town of Roosevelt; Roosevelt Power Canal; Tonto Basin -- Vol. 4. Mount Rainier trip, August 1921 -- Vol. 5. Red Rock Canyon (Mojave Desert, Nevada), 1919 -- Vol. 6. Sequoia Park, July 1918 -- Vol. 7. High Sierra, Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1919 -- Vol. 8. Camp High Sierra, 1923 -- Vol. 9. Scenery and people at a log cabin, horseback riding, around Pinecrest, Tuolumne County, California, 1910s? -- Vol. 10. Souvenir postcards sent from various places in the United States, 1910s?.
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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 and scrapbook album of women's trip to Mexico
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A travel album of photographs, ephemera and typescript narrative, documenting a car trip taken by four Texas women to Mexico and back in August and September 1938. Typed diary pages are pasted on several album pages detailing the people and places the women encountered and the experiences they had. The photographs include snapshots of residents, towns and villages, ancient temples, churches and convents, with some images of the four women who are only identified as Elizabeth, Juanita, "Sister," and M.S. They are seen with their guide, "Mr. Castillo," on a riverboat in Xochimilco in Mexico City, and also traveling by car in the mountains and countryside. Comments in the narrative discuss the use of travel conveniences such as Western Union and Wells Fargo, having to speak Spanish, the activities of indigenous peoples, and scenic wonders. The album is bound in wooden covers and has a carved illustration depicting a rural Mexican scene, most likely purchased on the trip. Also included in the album are photographic postcards, menus, brochures, and other ephemera collected from the trip.
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Francine Smith and Carroll Haven Smith travel album
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Photograph album containing more than 150 black and white photographs documenting a 1913 automobile trip from San Francisco to New York via Los Angeles, Reno, Salt Lake City, Laramie, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, and Niagara Falls, accompanied by a 41-page handwritten narrative of the trip as far as Kansas City, written by Francine Smith, and approximately 70 additional photographs of one or more vacation trips taken in California. The trip was made in a 60 HP Locomobile owned and driven by Carroll Haven Smith of San Francisco, who was accompanied by his wife, Francine, and Mr. R. E. Hilton. Also includes newspaper clipping with article about Carroll Haven Smith's brother Reginald Smith.
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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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