Gaspar Family Travel Scrapbook
Scope and Contents
The Gaspar Family Travel Scrapbook includes a single scrapbook with diary entries, photographs, and ephemera that document a family trip to Mexico from February 12 to March 23, 1942. The scrapbook includes a Hotel Emporio receipt for Jack Gaspar with a later 1946 date. The author of the scrapbook is not noted in the book, but is likely to be Ella Irene McClain Gaspar, the mother of Jack McClain Gaspar. Adeth Elizabeth Gorman Gaspar is frequently mentioned. The Gaspar family took a train through Los Angeles, Tucson, and Nogales to visit Mazatlán and Guadalajara, Mexico. Photographs and ephemera are pasted throughout the scrapbook. Photographs include images of fellow travelers, hotel workers, and the sites they visited. Ephemera includes menus, brochures, and a railway map. The writer describes playing the lottery, drinking, Jack's duck hunting, and visits to churches and other local sites with Adeth. Hotels mentioned include Hotel Belmar and Hotel Central.
Dates
- Creation: 1942-1946
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge. Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Full Extent
.25 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Spanish; Castilian
Abstract
The Gaspar Family Travel Scrapbook includes diary entries, photographs, and ephemera that document a family trip to Mexico from February 12 to March 23, 1942.
Processing Information
Mallory Furnier, 2023
Source
- Gaspar, Jack (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Gaspar Family Travel Scrapbook
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2023-12-07
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections & Archives Repository
University Library
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge CA 91330-8326 USA
818-677-4594
asksca@csun.edu
