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Our trip of 1956Creator/Contributor:
Parks, Larry, creator, creator.Abstract:
Snapshot photograph album documenting a cross-country road trip taken in the summer of 1956 by a California family who flew
from Los Angeles to Detroit, then travelled by car to New England before driving westward. Well-documented highlights include
the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, and Yellowstone National Park. Other points of interest
include rural upstate New York; New London and Niantic, Connecticut; New York City; scenery along the Pennsylvania Turnpike;
Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota; Missouri River; Badlands; Dinosaur Park; Mount Rushmore; Needles Highway; Cody and Buffalo
Bill Dam, Wyoming; Grand Tetons; and Salt Lake City. The compiler, a young man probably of high-school age, is depicted in
a few images. Also depicted throughout the album are the compiler's family, extended family members and family friends. Printed
imagery of Yellowstone Park on front cover depicts two bears eating from a tree stump, and Old Faithful geyser.
Date:
1956 (issued)Subject:
n-us---Automobile travel -- United States -- Photographs
Voyages en automobile -- États-Unis -- Photographies
Automobile travel
Yellowstone National Park -- Photographs
Yellowstone National Park -- Photographies
United States
United States -- Yellowstone National Park
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village -- Photographs
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.
Note:
Title written on first page.
Name, perhaps that of compiler/photographer, written inside front cover: "Larry Parks".
Commercial photograph album. Title printed on cover: "Yellowstone Park". Poem printed on cover: "Where the west begins". Cover
illustrated with park scenery.
All images are described with hand-written captions. Photographs are arranged chronologically.
Purchase ; from Tschantz Rare Books ; 2021.
Our trip of 1956, BANC PIC 2021.047, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Photograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 150 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints mounted to paper leaves ; prints 9 x 9 cm, album 22 x 29
cm
Language:
English