[Western Trip Album Compiled by Female Travelers.]

Various Places With an Emphasis on California and Missouri, 1912. Very good +. Many photos measure around 5” x 3” with around one third are captioned. Album good due to detached covers, photos generally very good plus or better.

This is an album documenting trips by three unknown women with around half the photos being posed shots of unknown family and friends while the rest are compelling photos of California, Kansas and several other areas as described below. We think the compiler was from Kansas City as that's where the album starts and it ends in Hannibal, Kansas.

In Kansas City we see some street scenes and an electric park. The section on Hannibal has at least 30 5x7s of churches, public buildings, the Mark Twain Hotel and a fantastic birdseye view of Main Street. Also around Hannibal we see Mark Twain's Cave, an exceptional shot of a riverboat and two large mini-panoramas.

At least 100 photos were taken in California. They include a series at a ranch in El Cajon where the compilers picked grapes, several at the Coronado Hotel and several more of their lodgings at a “tent city” at Coronado Beach. There's a birdseye view of Coronado Beach, scenic shots around La Jolla and Point Loma and photos in and around Redondo Beach and the Hotel Del Rey. There are at least a dozen photos around Santa Catalina Island and a couple in Tijuana including a street scene.

Other interesting photos include a few of a train wreck in Colorado and a few more in Seattle. There are also at least six photos showing buildings and exhibits at 1909's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition as well as the second ever Indianapolis 500 in 1912. There are at least 20 other great RPPCs including street scenes in Illinios, Michigan and Michigan City, Indiana.