Title:

[Photograph albums documenting a couple's travels in Oregon and elsewhere]

Travel photograph albums containing snapshot views documenting the early 1950s travels of an unidentified couple, likely a man of Anglo descent and a woman of Asian descent, each of whom appear in a few images. The bulk of the locations depicted are in Oregon: Mt. Hood, Oregon coast, Columbia River (including many scenes of Native Americans fishing at Celilo Falls), Painted Hills, Wallowa Mountain, Hell's Canyon, Pendleton (with many scenes of the Pendleton Roundup), Crater Lake, Pinnacles, Redmond, lava beds near Bend, Crooked River Gorge, Tumalo Falls, Salt Creek Falls, a geyser at Lakeview, Oregon Caves, and sand dunes. Other locations depicted include Canada (Glacier National Park, Niagara Falls and Quebec), Mexico (Taxco and Acapulco), Washington D.C., Fort Henry, the Statue of Liberty, and Florida. Given the illustrations of Japan and Korea on the album covers, and a few images of the man posing atop an early concrete version of the U.S. Marines Iwo Jima memorial in Washington D.C., it is possible that he is a veteran of World War II or the Korean War.

Date:

1952 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-or

Oregon -- Description and travel

Oregon -- Photographs

Title devised by cataloger.

Photographers, compiler unknown. Photo lab markings on backs of most prints are dated 1952 or 1953.

Souvenir albums with identical bindings: black lacquered wood boards, front covers illustrated with an image of Mt. Fuji and maps of Korea and Japan, with floral motifs.

Volume 1 includes a small number of hand-written captions on album leaves. Volume 2 lacks any descriptive annotations.

Photograph albums documenting a couple's travels in Oregon and elsewhere, BANC PIC 2023.072, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Purchase from Zephyr Used & Rare Books ; 2022.

Type:

graphic

Photograph albums.

photoprint

approximately 485 photographs in 2 albums : color prints mounted to album leaves ; prints 9 x 9 cm or smaller, albums 27 x 37 cm

English

Origin:

California