Alma Simpson Travel Journals

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4204

No requestable containers

Content Description

The collection consists of two composition books containing photographs, postcards, clippings, travel ephemera, and handwritten descriptions of Alma Simpson's travels with her family during the summers of 1923 and 1925. Both have detailed handwritten accounts illustrated with snapshots, postcards, as well as some brochures and paperwork from lodges and car rentals.

The first book has information about the family's trip from their home in Montclair, New Jersey, to Niagara Falls in 1923 and a trip through Pennsylvania to Washington DC in 1924. The second covers their 1925 summer trip from Pennsylvania to Niagara Falls again, and then on to New York and Massachusetts.

Dates

Creation: 1923-1925

Creator

Simpson, Alma (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Alma Simpson lived in Montclair, New Jersey in the early 1920s.

Extent

.3 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

A detailed account of a family's travels during the early 1920s as described by an independent young college woman during her summer vacations.

General

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