AMERICAN RAILROAD TRIP, 1923 FROM BOSTON TO CALIFORNIA AND BACK Photo Albums,Scrapbook

Three-ring binder, seventy-eight pages, containing 82 original sepia photographs (81 present; one mount shows removal) and 167 commercial photographs and postcards. Pagination and annotations throughout in a neat hand, numbered at upper right of each leaf. Condition note: one vernacular photograph is lacking (mount and caption remain); light handling consistent with travel albums; overall sound. A rare and vivid record of a 1923 transcontinental railroad journey Boston to Los Angeles and return made aboard the Golden State Limited and associated lines. The album combines the traveler s own photographs with a curated trove of purchased souvenir images, preserving the rhythm and wonder of early 20th-century rail travel through the American heartland and Southwest. The journey begins in Boston, with a brief stop in New York, then west to Chicago ("where one could sleep without charge"). From there, the party boarded the Golden State Limited through Kansas City into the Southwest: Lamy, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and the Grand Canyon. Early leaves carry folklore and regional notes (e.g., Mesa Encantada; Pueblo de Isleta), alongside candid observations of the Albuquerque Indian School (then active) and snapshots of Indigenous people (including remarks about shawls used to avoid being photographed). The Grand Canyon section recounts Don López de Cárdenas (1540) and Major J. W. Powell s exploration, with postcards and snapshots of Hopi houses, ritual performances, and daily life. In California: Los Angeles, Pasadena, Cawston Ostrich Farm (album shows the couple riding an ostrich) and the Los Angeles Alligator Farm, then the coast Santa Barbara, Monterey, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Yosemite (group photo at Mirror Lake) before reaching Portland, Oregon. Return via Salt Lake City, Denver, and the Royal Gorge; homeward through Chicago. Tipped into the rear: a four-page typewritten itinerary ("Tour to California, 1923," day-by-day), a total mileage log of 8,783.9 miles, and a Union Pacific System pamphlet with U.S. map.