Southwest automobile camping photograph album, 1928
1 volume
The Southwest automobile camping photograph album contains 46 photographs of an auto camping trip to Arizona and New Mexico in 1928. Each photograph includes notation naming location, individuals, and some dates. Multiple photographs are missing. The first portion of the album shows various locations in Arizona including the Sentinel (Arizona), Gillespie Dam, San Xavier Mission and Grotto, Casa Grande Ruins, Wickenburg Mountains, Granite Dells, Hopi Point and Powell Memorial at the Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, and Canyon Lake. Locations in New Mexico include Elephant Butte Dam, Hot Springs, and Raton Pass. Auto camps shown include "Stumble Inn," (Tucson, Arizona), Rowe's Well Camp (near the Grand Canyon), and Texas Home Camp (Hot Springs, New Mexico). The last image is of the Oklahoma State Capitol.
Many captions name William and Mattie Mulholland in the photographs. Also included is one loose photograph of poodles from "Baby Doll Kennels," in Erie, Pennsylvania.
The album is 20.5 x 13.5 cm with black artificial leather covers.