Travel Diary of Marguerite Treet, 1919

This travel diary, belonging to Marguerite Treet of Hackensack, New Jersey, describes her trip from New York to San Francisco and back in 1919. The entries are dated from July 7, 1919 to November 18, 1919 and include descriptions of her activities, accommodations, sightseeing, meals, people she meets, and the state of her car. The trip takes her through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, then up to Alaska, back down to Oregon, and California, before heading back east through Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, West Virginia, and Maryland. The first few days of her trip take her from New York to Niagara Falls.

RG 876   Travel diary of Marguerite Treet “New York to Frisco and Back”, 1919

Description of Niagara Falls from Marguerite Treet's travel journal, 1919

In this journal entry, Treet notes that she went to the Clifton Hotel and had a nice meal before visiting the Falls, writing that “words can’t express their wonder. What an exhibition of might & power! As we looked down from a nearby point it looked like a mass of ice in thousands of forms & shapes. And the view from below. The spray hid the fall of the water all around that mighty roar.”