[Missouriana] : [Travel Narratives] : [Scrapbooks] : Various, including Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri: (1947). Approximately 11" x 9" scrapbook. Wooden boards with an inlaid design and "SCRAPS" to hinged front. String binding holding 15 leaves with dozens of photographs, postcards, and ephemeral articles mounted, mostly to rectos. A blend of commerical postcards and original photographs (we count 26 original vernacular snapshots). Neat cursive notations throughout composing an approximately 700 word original travel narrative. Section of loss to exterior wood hinge assembly, string binding holes wearing or worn out, one leaf loose. Overall a neatly assembled and reasonably well preserved handmade production, about very good.

A scrapbook forming an original, illustrated travel narrative of a young Dallas couple's August 1947 honeymoon in Missouri's Ozark region with identified places including Branson, Forsyth, Rockaway Beach, Lake Taneycomo, Roaring River State Park, Lake of the Ozarks, etc... 

Highlights include at least 16 original vernacular photographs and a detailed accounting of expenses on five mounted manuscript notebook leaves on the album's final page. Lengthy manuscript notations (totaling a narrative of some 700 words) bind the contents together, forming a compelling and appealing original mid-20th Century document on the enduring tourism appeal of Missouri's Ozarks.