California–Yellowstone–Yosemite Photo Album (1929 & 1932–33) — 165 Captioned Travel Snapshots

Item #1610

A terrific, hand-captioned western travel photo album documenting two Depression-era trips west—one in 1929, and another in 1932–1933. The album contains about 165 black-and-white snapshots, neatly mounted with photo corners on black paper pages, with many locations identified in white pencil captions. The result reads like a personal road movie: salty horizon lines at the Great Salt Lake, tourist infrastructure and scenic overlooks, beach silhouettes and playful posed portraits, and classic “seen-it-in-a brochure” landmarks—alongside wonderfully specific moments like a Goodyear airship (“Volunteer” visible on the blimp) on an L.A. field, “Taking movies at Lion Farm,” and a Yosemite-area Big Trees stop labeled Wawona Tree.
Album size approximately 7.25" x 11.25". Most photos appear to be around 2.25" x 4.25", with a few smaller examples toward the back (per the original description you shared). A handful of photos are missing and several pages are detached, but the presentation remains strong overall, and the captions do a lot of the work for display and research.

Price: $375.00