New England and Canadian Trip, 1952
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Adams, Anne
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This is a combined journal and photograph album of a trip that was taken through New England and Canada from September 8 to September 21, 1952. The journal consists of 10 original typewritten pages and eighty one 8 ½ x 9 cm. black and white photos. Also included are 24 coloured postcards, a 25 x 20 cm. black and white photograph and a chart of where the couple stopped and how much they spent.
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The text and photographs are interspersed. For every red x within the text, there is a corresponding photograph. The photographs are numbered and they include:
1. Home of James A. Garfield, Mentor, Ohio
2. Niagara River
3. Niagara River from Canadian side
4. Power Generator above falls from Canadian side
5. Rough water above falls and power plant
6. Niagara River
7. Niagara Falls
8. Horseshoe Falls
9. Below the falls (Canada left, U.S.A. right)
10. Close-up of Horseshoe Falls from Canadian side
11-12. The whirlpool
13. Flower garden – School [of Horticulture]
14. Union Jack at Victoria Park [referred to here as Hydro-Electric
Park]
15. Floral clock [referred to a musical clock, Hydro-Electric Park]
16. Brock statue, Queen Victoria Park [referred to here as Hydro-
Electric Park]
17. Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York
18. Across Lake Otsego, Cooperstown, New York
19 Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown, New York
20. View from Fenimore House, Cooperstown, New York
21. James Fenimore Cooper House, Cooperstown, New York
22-23. Capitol Building, Hartford, Connecticut
24. Grave of Sgt. Benjamin Case in old cemetery, Providence Rhode
Island
25. Nathan Hale, patriot spy – Homestead near Hartford, Connecticut
26-28. Capitol Building, Providence, Rhode Island
29-30. Waterfront, New Bedford, Connecticut
31. Plymouth Rock with ocean in the background
32. Plymouth Rock Massachusetts – reconstructed dwelling
33. Ocean view from Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
34. Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
35. Daniel Webster grave between Plymouth and Boston,
Massachusetts
36. Daniel Webster Family lot [plot] between Plymouth and Boston,
Massachusetts
37. Paul Revere home, Boston, Massachusetts
38. Paul Revere home, Massachusetts [photos 37 and 38 show “our
bus”]
39-40. Old Ironsides (Constitution), Boston Naval Yards
41. Concord English statue – before crossing the bridge
42. Looking across the bridge, Concord – American statue in
background
43. Minute Man Statue, Concord, Massachusetts
44. Entrance to Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Massachusetts
45. Wayside Inn Chapel
46. Wayside Inn – old mill (100 years old & still in operation)
47. Harvard University Museum [lady in the picture referred to as
Joe]
48. Longfellow’s home, Boston (Washington also lived here)
49-50. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s home (House of Seven Gables), Salem,
Massachusetts
51. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s birthplace, Salem, Massachusetts [bumper
of their car in photo referred to as “us”]
52. Newbury, Massachusetts – house built in 1725
53. New Hampshire coastline showing Atlantic Ocean
54. Rock bound coast of Maine
55. Maine’s Atlantic coastline
56. Entrance to the state capitol at Augusta, Maine
57. State capitol, Augusta, Maine
58. Atlantic Ocean – Maine coastline
59. Hills, river and road, Maine
60. Custom Station – crossing into Canada from Maine
61-62. Canadian scenery
63. Quebec, Canada
64. Chateau Frontenac, Quebec
65. Lower Quebec
66. Quebec Parliament Building
67. Italian ship at a port near Montreal
68. French ship near Montreal
69. Logs for the largest paper mill in the world, Three Rivers [Trois-
Rivières], Canada
70. Montreal suburb
71. Hydro Electric Dam – Ottawa River
72. Canadian scenery
Unnumbered. Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, Canada
73. Route 17 – King’s Highway
74. Webbwood, Ontario
75. Leaving Canada
76. Gate to cross on ferry from Sault Ste. Marie to Michigan
77. View of Sault Ste. Marie from ferry
78. View of U.S.A. from ferry
79. Lake Huron from ferry – St. Ignace, Michigan
80. From ferry – freighter and Mackinac Island