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Views of a cross-country walking trip from Pennsylvania to California with views of New York City and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Title
Views of a cross-country walking trip from Pennsylvania to California with views of New York City and New Orleans, Louisiana. [graphic] / Todd Webb.
Author
Webb, Todd, 1905-
Publication
1945-1957.

Details

Additional Authors
Romana Javitz Collection.
Description
57 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26.1 x 33.9 cm. and smaller.
Summary
Views of landscapes, cityscapes and interiors in various cities, towns and areas in between taken on a cross-country walking trip from Pennsylvania to California. Other views include street scenes in New York City showing store fronts, churches, subway stations and cityscapes, and one view of a streetcar named "Desire" in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Subject
  • Adobe buildings
  • African Americans
  • Aged persons
  • Amish
  • Architectural decorations & ornaments
  • Architectural elements
  • Automobiles
  • Balloons
  • Bars
  • Bell towers
  • Bison
  • Blacksmith shops
  • Buildings
  • Business districts
  • Cabins
  • Cable railroads
  • Carriages & coaches
  • Carts & wagons
  • Children & adults
  • Children playing outdoors
  • Children's clothing & dress
  • Churches
  • Cigar store indians
  • City & town halls
  • City & town life
  • Clothing & dress
  • Croplands
  • Crosses
  • Deserts
  • Dogs
  • Doors & doorways
  • Dwellings
  • Electrical apparatus
  • Elevated railroads
  • Farm life
  • Farms
  • Fire fighters
  • Ghost towns
  • Hats
  • Horses
  • Hotels, taverns, etc
  • Hides & skins
  • Irrigation
  • Lanterns
  • Lettuce
  • Light fixtures
  • Markets
  • Men
  • Mining
  • Monuments & memorials
  • Mothers & children
  • Nuns
  • Opera houses
  • Outdoor furniture
  • Parades & processions
  • Pedestrians
  • Post offices
  • Porches
  • Railroad stations
  • Religious articles
  • Religious orders
  • Restaurants
  • Roads
  • Rocking chairs
  • Saddlery shops
  • Sculpture
  • Seafood stores
  • Shoe stores
  • Signs
  • Skulls
  • Skyscrapers
  • Smoking
  • Spires
  • Stoves
  • Street railroads
  • Streets
  • Tailoring
  • Taxidermy
  • Teenagers
  • Telephone lines
  • Thanksgiving Day
  • Tourists
  • Traffic signs & signals
  • Transcontinental journeys
  • Waterfronts
  • Waiting rooms
  • Weather vanes
  • Window displays
  • Women
  • Arrow Rock (Mo.)
  • Baggs (Wyo.)
  • California
  • Carlisle (Pa.)
  • Chama (N.M.)
  • Colorado
  • Dodge City (Kan.)
  • Ephrata (Pa.)
  • Grantsville (Utah)
  • Jackson (Calif.)
  • Jennerstown (Pa.)
  • Kansas
  • Kutztown (Pa.)
  • Lancaster (Pa.)
  • Ligonier (Pa.)
  • Louisiana
  • Missouri
  • Nevada
  • New Holland (Pa.)
  • New Orleans (La.)
  • New York (N.Y.)
  • New Mexico
  • Osage City (Kan.)
  • Ouray (Colo.)
  • Pagosa Springs (Colo.)
  • Pennsylvania
  • Raton (N.M.)
  • Salinas River Valley (Calif.)
  • San Francisco (Calif.)
  • Taos Pueblo (N.M.)
  • United States Highway 40 (Utah)
  • Utah
  • Virginia City (Nev.)
  • Wyoming
Genre/Form
  • Cityscapes.
  • Interiors.
  • Landscapes.
  • Self-portraits.
  • Photographic prints.
  • Silver gelatin photographic prints.
Note
  • Collection stamps, verso.
  • Photographer's stamps, verso.
  • Titles, dates inscribed in ink and pencil, verso.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Cite As (note)
  • Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms of Use (note)
  • Permission of the photographer required for reproduction.
Provenance (note)
  • Transfer, 1991.
Call Number
MFZ (Webb) 93-6219
OCLC
NYPG93-F156
Author
Webb, Todd, 1905- photographer.
Title
Views of a cross-country walking trip from Pennsylvania to California with views of New York City and New Orleans, Louisiana. [graphic] / Todd Webb.
Imprint
1945-1957.
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Cite As:
Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms Of Use
Permission of the photographer required for reproduction.
Finding Aids
Detailed inventory available.
Provenance
Transfer, 1991.
Added Author
Romana Javitz Collection.
Research Call Number
MFZ (Webb) 93-6219
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