Scrapbooks of travels, 1903-1911.

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Scrapbooks of travels, 1903-1911.

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Four scrapbooks kept by LeRoy Crawford during trips he made with his niece Etta Crawford. Each volume contains a typewritten travelogue as well as a variety of original photographs, postcards, images from magazines, cartes-de-visite, and other ephemera. Each volume was assembled by LeRoy and Etta in Chase's Lake, New York. Although each is also inscribed Henrietta Crawford, she does not seem to have been involved in the travels documented. The first volume (1902-1903) describes the Crawfords' travels on the Northern Pacific Railroad ("this train was in all respects the most complete and comfortable one that I have ever seen," LeRoy noted) from St. Paul to Seattle, where they visited the Port Orchard Navy Yard and Moran shipyard (includes photographs of the Ocean Queen and battleship Nebraska during the early phases of their construction). The scrapbook also follows the Crawfords' visits to Oregon, San Francisco, Mt. Tamalpais, British Colombia, and San Francisco, as well as their voyage on the S.S. Newport to Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Columbia. The second scrapbook (1907), titled "The Eden Tour of Forty Days," describes their travels to Jamaica and the West Indies aboard the RMS Thames, including stops in Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad, Panama, and the Bahamas. The 1909 album consists mainly of postcards which were acquired while the Crawfords were traveling on the Union Pacific to Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Alberta, and British Columbia (on the Canadian Pacific Railroad), and also includes postcards from the Alaska Yukon Pacific Expedition (1909). The final album (1911) follows the Crawfords as they again sailed on the RMS Thames and stopped in Cuba before touring Jamaica by car.

4 bound volumes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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