Travel photo album and scrapbook, 1929-1934
This collection contains a photo album and scrapbook featuring photographs, postcards, and travel manuscripts of a Massachusetts woman and her friends as they travelled to Ontario, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Illinois from 1929 to 1934. The photo album and scrapbook document several separate trips, including two different visits to Niagara Falls.
The photo album is dated 1929-1930 and documents a road trip to Rochester, N.Y., Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Maine, where she visits Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. There are over 20 photographs and postcards of Niagara, as well as about 40 more showing Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park, the Taconic Trail, airplanes flying in formation at Prospect Hill Fire Tower in Waltham, visits to cadets at West Point, NY, and Rochester NY.
The scrapbook contains postcards, typed and handwritten manuscripts, souvenir booklets, and photographs from trips taken in 1933 and 1934. The album begins with a trip to the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933 which included a stop in Niagara. The next section of the scrapbook documents a road trip to Washington, D.C. with fellow teachers. The trip included stops in New York City, Mt. Vernon, and Fort Hoyle, Maryland. A typewritten account of the trip is 17 pages and includes photographs, postcards, souvenir booklets, and a four-leaf clover. Some stops on their trip included Arlington National Cemetery, the Washington Cathedral, and the Caves of Luray, Virginia. At the end of the album are photos of three women and the car they travelled in. It is written that “We had one jolly time—but Homes and Husbands and Whatnot look pretty darn good to us after a week’s absence...”.
Material from this collection has been digitized and is available in the Digital Repository.
