Miss Ethel M. Shaw was a resident of Boston, Massachusetts. In 1937, she traveled with Misses Anita and Marion Atwood to the western United States and Alaska. Miss Shaw's trip began on July 1 in Boston and continued to Montreal, Canada, where she boarded the Canadian National Railroad Continental Limited and arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia, on July 5. Her trip continued aboard the Canadian National Steamship Line SS Prince George and she traveled to Skagway, Alaska. In Skagway, Miss Shaw traveled on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad to Carcross, where she boarded the SS Tutshi for an excursion to Ben-My-Chree, Yukon Territory. After returning to the SS Prince George, she visited several Alaskan towns including Ketchikan, Wrangell, Sitka, and Juneau. Miss Shaw returned to Vancouver on July 14, where she boarded the Great Northern for a rail trip to Seattle and Portland. From Portland, she visited Los Angeles and San Francisco, before departing for Chicago aboard the Santa Fe Railroad's Chief. She arrived in Chicago on July 25, and traveled home to Boston aboard the New York Central Railroad's Twentieth Century Limited, arriving on July 26.
From the description of Scrapbook and camera, 1937. (UAA/APU Consortium Library). WorldCat record id: 60314478
