Source Record 640

Description:       Source Type}   Photograph Family History} Olson
Photographs. (10)  John L. Miller (Jack), cross country hitchhiking trip, Wilmar, California to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, 28 Oct 1939 to 12 Nov 1939.  [Also see Diary and Postcards]:
  • Hitch-hiking across country to N.J., 1938" [29 Oct 1938]
  • "Me."  Standing beside car that took me from Wilmar (home) to Tuscon, Ariz.  550 miles." [28 Oct 1938]
  • "Another hitch-hiker at Tuscon, Arizona.  Notice Cactus in salute."  [29 Oct 1938]
  • "Pecos River bridge - actually 100 ft. above water here.  Coloring." 
  • "Clouds shot from auto traveling 65 M.P.H.  On Texas plains."
  • "Ft. Hancock, Texas.  Mexican 'dobe store.  'Red running' to get out of picture with my suitcase.  We just heard freight whistle and are in a hurry to catch it.  [31 Oct 1938]
  • "Alpine - typical small Texas town." [1 Nov 1938]
  • "Louisania[sic] sugar cane fields.  State Capital of Louisiana tiny tower in background." [4 Nov 1938]
  • "On ferry boat crossing the Mississippi.  State Capitol of Louisania at Baton Rouge in Distance [4 Nov 1938]
  • "Norfolk to Cape Charles.  Chesapeake Bay." [11 Nov 1938]
Source Cost     } $ 0.00
Kind of Evidence} Original
Last Updated
by} Karen Hancock
Date Updated} 12 Apr 2012
Date Created}   10 Jul 2001
Repository:Dan and Karen Hancock
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Auburn, California 95603-5851
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