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Automobile travel--United States--History--Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Gertrude Lovett Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01300
Scope and Contents This collection contains the diaries, 1953-1960, of Gertrude Lovett of Beverly, Massachusetts. The diaries describe trips taken by Lovett and her husband, Earle Lovett. The first diary, 1953, concerns a road trip taken by the Lovetts starting in Massachusetts and traveling to the West Coast of the United States and Canada, including stops in a number of National Parks. There is also an account of a trip to Florida in 1960.The second diary contains an account of a 1959 trip to...
Dates: 1953-1960

Motor Trip Diary and Blanket

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00889
Scope and Contents Car trip diary, 1927-1934 and travel blanket of an unidentified woman. The diary records her trips in her Erskine Studebaker and later a new 1934 Ford. Includes are dates, miles, times and who accompanied her, as well as brief remarks. The following description was provided by the seller: "She writes of attending the 1927 Cleveland Industrial Exhibition and seeing the exhibit titled "The Tower Of Jewels" she attended ball games, boat races again, dances, camping, picnics,...
Dates: 1927-1934

Travel Diary "The Smokies, North and South Carolina, etc."

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00737
Scope and Contents

Travel diary, April 1960 of an unidentified author, who describes day-by-day impressions of people met, food, crops, etc.  Among the states visited are North and South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Indiana and Illinois, which seems to be the state where the author and his or her travel companion reside.

Dates: 1960

Travel Diary (Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y.)

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00697
Scope and Contents

Travel diary (8pp.), 1950, describing the car trip of three young men from Alabama to New York City. The description focuses on their stays in Washington, D.C. and New York City, but there is also some mentioning of the bad traffic during the trip and stops for food and some overnight stays along the way.

Dates: 1950