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Postcards ➔ Scrapbook, Travel
Identifier:
2012.62.1Description:
A travel scrapbook compiled by Miss Carrie Demorest of Grand Rapids (formally of Ludington) about her travels to Europe in 1930. It contains documents, photographs, cards, postcards, tickets, notes and brochures.;The scrapbook provides a unique personal account of a trip of a lifetime for a single, working-class woman living in Grand Rapids. Additionally it contains information about what it was like to travel in the 1930s, modes of transportation, costs and common tourist activities, as well as personal accounts of living through the Stock Market crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Great Depression.;Carrie was 40 years old and working for Kent Bank in Grand Rapids when she left on a 2-month long vacation in the summer of 1930. Carrie kept her going away greeting cards, a newspaper article announcing her departure and itinerary (published in her hometown newspaper Ludington Daily News) and numerous letters from close friends and family. The personal messages tell a great deal about Carrie having for this opportunity and of the great aspirations trip was booked through The Student Travel Club, Inc., New York a tour company with a set itinerary. She set sail from New York on June 14th and arrived in Plymouth, England on June 22nd. From there she traveled to London by train and on other excursions in England. She also visited France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Brussels and then returned to the United States via Southampton to Montreal on August 3rd. Carrie continued to tuck postcards from friends into her scrapbook as late as the 1950s, likely as reminders of her own international adventure.Materials:
Paper, Wood, GlueDimensions:
2" h 11.5" w 12.5" dCurrent Location Status:
On ExhibitSource:
Gift Of Roberta Parker And Priscilla GadzinskiExhibit/Program:
Be Curious (October 1 2013 – March 1 2015)Rotating display of recently accessioned artifacts.