Collection Guide
Brief record only
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
[United States cross-country travel photograph album].
Collection Number:
No online items
Collection Overview
Title:
[United States cross-country travel photograph album]Abstract:
Album of photographs documenting cross-country road trips taken in 1930 and 1931 by two young men living in the Midwest, probably
Indiana. Their first trip, beginning July 1, 1930, is documented with scenes of points of interest in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Washington D.C., New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Canada, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, California,
Arizona, Utah and Wyoming. Locations depicted extensively include Niagara Falls, Columbia River Highway and Yellowstone National
Park. Their second trip, beginning July 4, 1931, is documented with images from Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, New Mexico and
Colorado. A third trip, undated, is documented with many scenes taken throughout Michigan.
Date:
1930 (issued)Subject:
n-us--- -- n-usp-- -- n-us-miAutomobile travel -- United States -- Photographs
United States -- Description and travel -- Photographs
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel -- Photographs
Michigan -- Photographs
Travel
West United States
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer(s) unknown.
Hand-written captions on album leaves describe most images.
United States cross-country travel photograph album, BANC PIC 2021.019, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Purchase from McBride Rare Books ; 2021.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Photograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 275 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints ; prints various sizes, album 19 x 29 cm
Language:
English