Scrapbook and camera, 1937.

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Scrapbook and camera, 1937.

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The collection consists of a 74 page scrapbook compiled by Miss Ethel M. Shaw concerning her trip to the western U.S., Alaska, and Canada in July of 1937, and her camera. Included in the album are 136 photographs and postcards depicting images of the cities and towns she visited. These include Montreal, Vancouver, Carcross, and Ben-My-Chree, Canada, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Sitka, Juneau, and Skagway, Alaska, and Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago. Also included in the album is an extensive array of tourist brochures, pamphlets, advertisements, maps and plans (10), and timetables relating to historic sites, hotels, the Canadian National Steamship Line, the Canadian Railroad, the Santa Fe Railroad, the New York Central line, and TWA. The collection also includes a xerographic copy of the scrapbook. The camera is an Eastman Kodak Number 2 Folding Hawk-Eye Model B. It is accompanied by a user manual and Miss Shaw's name-embossed camera case.

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