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One album of vacation photographs and postcards depicting locations throughout California from 1922 and 1924. Measuring 28.5 x 18 cm, the album contains more than 250 black-and-white photographs, postcards, and photogravures mounted on black paper. Each item is labeled with its location, subject(s), and in some instances, the month and year it was taken. Southern California locales include Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Riverside, Fullerton, Laguna Beach, San Juan Capistrano, and Catalina Island. Northern California locales include Monterey, the San Francisco Bay area, and Stanford University. Outdoor recreation areas such as the California Redwood Park, Big Basin State Park, the Muir Woods, Camp Baldy, and Arrowhead Lake are also featured. Although the majority of the photographs depict places in California, the album also contains views of Crater Lake, Oregon; Glacier National Park, Montana; and a 1922 horseback excursion to Arizona's Grand Canyon. Many of the images of Oregon's Crater Lake and the redwood parks are postcards, both in color and black and white.

Although the provenance and the photographer of the album are unknown, it is possible that both are connected with a man and woman who appear in many of the photographs and are identified in the captions as D.M. Carroll and Jean Miller Carroll, respectively. The album's provenance also could be connected to a woman identified in the captions as Mrs. Florence Sands Murray, whose Alhambra, California home appears in the album.

The leather-bound album includes, in addition to the photographs and postcards mentioned above, one small tintype depicting an image similar to a San Gabriel Mission photograph in the album. A large photograph of the San Juan Capistrano mission and one of Camp Baldy are both hand tinted.

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