New England and Canada Trip, 1952
This collection comprises a combined journal and photo album documenting a trip through New England and Canada from September 8 to September 21, 1952. Photographs include several sites around Niagara, as well as locations in Cooperstown, New York; Hartford, Connecticut; Providence, Rhode Island; Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts; Boston; Augusta, Maine; and Montreal.
Photographs from Boston include the homes of Longfellow and Paul Revere. In Salem, they visited the Witch House [home of the witch trials], House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne’s birthplace, Gallows Hill, Salem Common, Pioneers’ Village and the home of Lidia Pinkham [who concocted a women’s tonic in 1876 which was touted as quackery by health officials]. They also visited Quebec and noted that French was the predominant language there. By the end of their trip, they had spent $288.01, driven 3,152 miles at an average of 16 miles per gallon, and had a “swell time”.
