I am processing a small collection of photographs from a local family. Most are from one family member's tour of duty during WWII and there are a few of those I will be contacting the World War II  Museum, New Orleans about.  

My question to you all is in regards to another part of the collection; a series of travel photographs from 1923 when someone from the family traveled to Colorado, Arizona, California, Alberta, CA. and some unidentified.  All are landscape shots, no people and are labeled on the back.  With little documentation as to whom in the family went on the trip or a journal/diary about the trip as well as no photographs of the family on this trip, photographs like this are not suitable for us to keep in the collection.  

I see their importance as early vacation photographs in a time when traveling by car was quite an adventure.  Does anyone know of an institution which collections such early travel vacation photographs?  I have thought of contacting each state's archives and/or the National Parks  as well as checking with the Smithsonian as one central depository.  

Thank-you for your assistance. 

Shannon Lindridge
Registrar
Broome County Historical Society
Roberson Museum and Science Center

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