Guide to the Huber S. Manifold Scrapbook MC322
Liz Phillips
University of California, Davis Library,
Dept. of Special Collections
2021
1st Floor, Shields Library, University of
California
100 North West Quad
Davis, CA 95616-5292
speccoll@ucdavis.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis Library,
Dept. of Special Collections
Title: Huber S. Manifold Scrapbook
Creator:
Manifold, Huber S.
Identifier/Call Number: MC322
Physical Description:
1
volume
In buckram cloth with a maroon label pasted on the
front cover reading, "My Scrapbook: A book which hath been
called from the flowers of all books - George Eliot." 48 pages
filled with photographs and various ephemeral items followed by
several unused pages. 96 black and white photographs, ranging
in size from 4.25 x 2.75 inches to 7.75 x 9.75
inches.
12.75 x 10.5 inches
Date: 1938
Abstract: Scrapbook and
photograph album documenting Hubert and Beatrice Manifold's road
trip from the East Coast to the West Coast and back, taken with
two friends.
Physical Location: Researchers should
contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections,
as many are stored offsite.
Scrapbook and photograph album documenting a road trip taken
by two couples, Huber S. Manifold, his wife Beatrice Manifold,
and their friends, Paul and Ruth, from the east coast to the west
coast and back again. The album is filled with photographs and
ephemeral items that capture the sights of many of the United
States National Parks, including the Grand Canyon, Zion National
Park, Yellowstone, Mt. Rainier, Yosemite, Crater Lake, and
Glacier National Park as they crossed the country from
Pennington, New Jersey, to Seattle, Washington. On just about
every page, the author has written about the area depicted on the
photographs or brochures.
The scrapbook carefully and legibly documents the
cross-country road trip. Each of the 48 pages is dated, the first
one starting June 27, 1938, at Fort Royal, VA, the last one dated
August 5th, 1938, ending in Pennington, N.J., the group's
hometown. Manifold also records where the group stayed, the
weather, any car trouble he had, and what the couples ate for
breakfast and dinner. Two menus from the La Placita Cafe of
Albuquerque, New Mexico are taped into the scrapbook, with an
advertisement from the Black Cat Cafe in Flagstaff, AZ. Manifold
takes careful notes about the quality of his food, and whether it
was a "Mexican or Italian dinner".
The trip begins in Front Royal (1 page), moves onto Morriston
and Pulaski, TN (2 pages) and then onto Ft. Smith, Arkansas;
Amarillo, Texas; Cubero and Albuquerque; NM, Tuba City, Cameron,
and Marble Canyon, AZ; St. George, and Ogden, Utah; Barston, San
Diego, Los Angeles, Glendale, Merced, Yosemite, San Mateo, Santa
Rosa, and Crescent City, CA (9 pages); Yellowstone; Rawlings,
Wyoming; Bend, Oregon; Kelso, Seattle, Camano Island, Skagit,
Ritzville, and Helena, Washington (7 pages); Polson, Montana;
Kearney, Nebraska; Geneseo, IL; Elkhart, IN; Chatham and
Hamilton, Ontario; and finally Pennington, NJ.
Most of the photographs have information written on backs
about where the picture was taken, information about that
particular area, and so on. Photographs include mesas and cacti
in Texas; oil rigs in Oklahoma; Church of San Felipe, Church of
Isleta, adobe pueblos at Isleta (all 3 of these photos show
locals standing outside the church/pueblo), the San Mateo Range
in NM; the Painted Desert, a trading post on a Navajo
Reservation, a Hopi Village, rodeo, Bright Angel Trail, Grand
Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Yosemite, Wawona Tunnel Tree, University
Church in Palo Alto, Fisherman's Wharf, Crater Lake, Mt. Rainier,
Camano Island, Skagit, Parliament building in Victoria, Glacier
National Park, and Yellowstone.
Other highlights include the couples' days in New Mexico and
Arizona. Manifold writes that they ate lunch in the shade in 100
+ degree heat but did get to visit Adobe Pueblo houses. In Tuba
City, AZ, the group drove through Native American Reservations
and spoke to some of the residents of the area. Manifold referred
to the Native American populace of Moencopie Hopi Indian village
as "rather progressive."
On July 4, 1938, Manifold and his group attended a "Southwest
Indian Pow Wow." He taped in six photographs of scenes from the
festival, five of which show various feats of horsemanship, the
sixth showing a group of what appear to be the festival
participants competing in the "Better Indian Babies Contest." The
Black Cat Cafe advertisement contains the itinerary for the
three-day festival, listing the 82 individual names of the Native
American men participating in the events. The men were from a few
different tribes: the Hopi, the Navajo, the Apache, the Ute, the
Havasupai, the Maricopa, the Hualapai, and the Paiute.
The Fourth of July itinerary of the contest lists events like
"The Better Indian Babies Contest," Bronco riding, calf roping,
half-mile bareback cow pony race, bulldogging, bronco riding, and
others. The night program lists seventeen dances, songs, and
chants performed by the Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, Kiowa, and Apache
people. On this page Manifold has also taped in a program for the
Petrified Forest Monument of Arizona, listing the stop as "very
much worthwhile."
The next page has photographs of the Grand Canyon, with the
page after it depicting the sights of Zion National Park. Other
national landmarks Manifold and his group visited include Boulder
Dam (now the Hoover Dam), with a brochure taped in discussing
highlights and fun facts about the dam. Manifold notes that he
enjoyed "the talkies of the dam construction at Boulder
City".
The following pages review the group's visit to Los Angeles,
then San Diego, with several brochures from their stops such as
the horse racing track at Santa Anita, Old Town San Diego (with
two brochures advertising it as Ramona's birthplace, the
protagonist from Helen Hunt Jackson's novel), and three
photographs from San Juan Capistrano. Manifold also taped in a
brochure from Yosemite, with a map and activities to do in the
park noted. The photographs on this page depict Bridal Veil
Falls, and Mirror Lake.
The group swings north to Palo Alto and then to San Francisco,
with a photograph of Fisherman's Wharf and a panoramic view of a
harbor from Coit Hill. The caption on this photograph says
"F.D.R. reviews the fleet. F.D.R. is aboard S.S. Houston. S.S.
Pennsylvania - flagship - has just fired its salute." S.S.
Pennsylvania would later suffer minor damage at Pearl Harbor.
After San Francisco, the group drove north to Bend, OR, with a
few pictures of Crater Lake taped in the scrapbook. After Bend,
Manifold and his party traveled on to Seattle, WA. They toured
Puget Sound, Mt. Rainier, and the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. The
liability waiver releasing the Timber Co. from any responsibility
in regards to potential accidents or death is pasted in with
Manifold's signature. The waiver warns tourists to not smoke, and
to not speak to the employees. Manifold writes "Weyerhaeuser
Timber Co. - largest in world - spent a very enjoyable +
profitable two and a half hours on the grounds of the plant".
On a later page, the group tours the City of Seattle's
Department of Lighting, with a Lady's Souvenir Ticket (printed on
pink paper) and a Man's Souvenir Ticket (printed on blue paper)
pasted in. On July 24th, when the group is visiting friends in
Washington State, there are three photographs of the traveling
party (Paul, Bee, Ruth, and Huber). On the way back, Manifold
pasted in the Motorists Guide to Waterton-Glacier International
Peace Park, with a holiday card from Paul and Ruth showing
Heavens Peak in Glacier National Park laid in.
The last two notable stops in the groups' road trip include
Yellowstone National Park and the Chicago Stock Exchange. For
Yellowstone's page, Manifold taped in a picture of Bee and Ruth
at the Continental Divide with two photographs of grizzly bears
eating lunch out of a lake. He also included two photographs of
Old Faithful. For the Chicago Stock Exchange, Manifold taped in
two brochures. On the way back the group stopped in Ontario,
Canada, to visit relatives. From there they drove home to New
Jersey.
[Description provided by Buckingham Books]
Collection is open for research.
Liz Phillips created this finding aid with information
supplied by Buckingham Books.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Buckingham Books, 2021.
[Identification of item], Huber S. Manifold Scrapbook, MC322,
Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of
California, Davis.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial
works
Yellowstone National Park -- Pictorial
works
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) --
Pictorial works
Hopi Indians -- Pictorial works
Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Pictorial
works
Arizona -- Pictorial works
Utah -- Pictorial works
Washington (State), Western -- Pictorial
works
Manifold, Huber S. -- Archives
Michael and Margaret B. Harrison
Western Research Center