Description


Overview


Original photograph album c. 1913-1920 documenting the Fowler-Murry-Libby

 family’s remarkable journey from Bethel, Maine to the Pacific Coast, capturing a 

vivid cross-section of early-20th-century American life — logging, automobiles, 

mountain highways, and the new spirit of travel that defined a generation leaving 


New England for the West.


This album is the second in a two-part family series.
The companion album from Bethel Maine (1913–1917) is being offered in a separate auction.


Together they form a continuous photographic chronicle of the same family spanning both coasts.



Album Details


Approx. 222 original photographs (211 mounted + 11 loose)

Missing: 

19 (typical glue marks only)


Album size: 

approx. 10 × 7 in. (black paper, back cover present, front cover detached)

Image size: 

2½ × 3½ in. avg., clear gelatin-silver prints

Condition: 

Binding loose, pages stable; photos crisp with excellent tonal range


Handwritten captions throughout in same distinctive hand as the Bethel album


Identified Locations & Highlights


Maine → Oregon → California, 1913–1920


Maine Roots (transition from the first album)


Family portraits, dogs, mill workers, and familiar names from Bethel — Helen 

Fowler, Albert Fowler, Paul Murry, Cora, Ora, Hale, and others — anchoring the 

narrative before the family’s move west.


Oregon Scenes


Hood River Valley – farm workers in vast berry and orchard fields.

Eagle Creek Trail – majestic forest vistas, cliff tunnels, and bridges along the Columbia River Highway (constructed 1913–1916).

The Dalles & Celilo Falls – rare early views of S.P.&S. Railroad bridge and the Columbia River in flood and low-water stages.

Crater Lake – snow-walled roads, rim-side autos, and early National Park lodge buildings.


California Views


Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Ry. – postcard photo 

“The Iron Steed,” showing Shay locomotive No. 8.


Monterey Mission & Carmel Mission ruins – captioned 

“First Carmel Mission at Monterey.”

Early coastal town streets, shoreline scenes, and Pacific Highway travel photographs.


Automobile & Travel Life


Repeated views of Model T Fords and open-touring cars, roadside repairs, “on a 

picnic,” and west-coast camping sequences with tents, cookware, and friends 

gathered beside the cars — a superb documentation of the automobile age 

ransforming American travel.



Notable Captions Include


“Trip to Eagle Creek” | “May 1920” | “On the plank road” | “The Iron Steed – 

Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Ry.” | “Highway at The Dalles” | “Crater Lake” | 

“Mr. Warren Home”



Provenance & Historical Significance


Handwriting, photo stock, and recurring family members confirm this is a

continuation of the Bethel Maine album (see Marc Goudreau’s companion auction).

Together they trace one family’s movement from rural New England industry to 

western exploration, bridging the pre-WWI era through 1920 — a miniature 

documentary of the American journey itself.



Cross-Reference Note


🔹 This album continues the photographic record begun in the Bethel Maine 

(1913–1917) album — see my separate auction for that volume, offered under 

“Bethel Maine Fowler-Murry-Libby Family Photo Album c. 1913–1917.” 

Together, these two collections chronicle the family’s complete journey from 

Maine’s mills to the Pacific Coast.


Please View Photos Provided.



Please let me know if there are any questions or concerns.


Measures Approximately:

See details above.


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