Edith and Horace Hager Album
Content Description
A scrapbook kept by white husband and wife Horace and Edith Hager on a road trip across the United States and briefly Canada in the mobile home trailer in 1948. The couple departed their New Jersey home pulling their new trailer they named "Ched." Edith or "Ede" and Horace or "Chap" along with their dog Candy are shown posing around the trailer in May 1948 before their departure. Photographs on their trip depict sites, people, animals, scenery, and other aspects of their trip. Included are photos of: bison ("buffalo") grazing east of Grand Island, Nebraska; Lookout Mountain and Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado; New Mexico; Horse Head on Blue Mountain and ranch hands in Monticello, Utah; Yellowstone National Park; and others. After Yellowstone the couple began their trip back to the east visiting Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Ontario, and New York. The final page of the album includes the notes "March – 1948 Yellowstone (indecipherable) / Omaha Neb. / Sept 30th 1948 / June".
The scrapbook includes 94 black and white gelatin silver photographs and 52 pictorial postcards. The album also includes admission tickets, fishing licenses, tax receipt, golf scorecards, a hospital chart and receipt, advertising cards for restaurants and mobile home parks, and other ephemera.
Description largely provided by seller.
Dates
- 1948
Creator
- Hager, Edith (Creator, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Extent
0.15 Cubic Feet (1 folder containing 1 volume) : Albums
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Custodial History
Immediate Source of Acquisition
- Canada -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hager, Edith
- Hager, Horace
- Mobile home living Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Scrapbooks Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- United States -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- gelatin silver prints Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- personal papers Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- photograph albums Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- picture postcards Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Creator
- Hager, Edith (Creator, Person)
- Hager, Horace (Creator, Person)
- Title
- Edith and Horace Hager Album
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Amy Schindler; Angela Kroeger
- Date
- 2016-06-03
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Nebraska at Omaha Archives & Special Collections Repository
Archives & Special Collections
Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library
6001 Dodge St.
Omaha Nebraska 68182-0237 United States
402-554-6046
unoasc@unomaha.edu