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Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting “An Auto Trip from Los Angeles to New York City and return June 23 to September 22, 1922”
oblong quarto, photo album containing 203 silver and cyanotype views mounted on 35 black paper leaves, images identified in white ink captions, bound in original flexible paper backed boards, string, tie, some minor dust soiling to album, otherwise in very good, clean condition.
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A nice photograph documenting the 1922 automobile trip of an unidentified
Los Angeles couple – west to east and back again – The couple departed their
home located at 927 S. Windsor Boulevard and traveled via the southern route
through Arizona, New Mexico, visiting Native American sites, Holbrook, Arizona,
and a Rodeo at St. Johns Arizona, Socorro, Santa Fe, Pecos, and an Indian
Reservation in Isleta, New Mexico, Colorado Springs, Garden of the Gods,
Manitou, North Platte, Nebraska, Des Moines, Iowa, Allegan, Michigan, Grand
Rapids, Owosso, Michigan, Port Huron, Ontario and Toronto, Niagara Falls, and
various towns in New York State, New York City, Princeton, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Gettysburg, across Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Wyoming,
Utah and return home. The couple often camped along their route and visited family
members in Michigan and in Ohio.
