[Photo Album]: 1950 Automotive Road Trip

1950. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto commercial album. Measuring approximately 10.25" x 7.25". A total of 88 leaves with the first 37 containing 123 black and white photographs and photo postcards dry set in corner mounts on the versos and rectos (the final pages are unused). Overall very good plus or better. Album of photographs and real photo postcards chronicling a 1950 road trip, primarily along U.S. Highways 66, 180, and 83 through Eastern New Mexico then South through Texas, following the U.S.-Mexico border capturing scenic views in and around areas including Carlsbad, Pharr, El Paso, and Corpus Christi. Many images taken across the dashboard of a 1937 Plymouth Coupe, in a classic "through-the-windshield" style, beautifully capturing life on the road in the American Southwest. A quintessential album of postwar automotive Americana, embodying the spirit of the open road and eerily evoking Kerouac's *On the Road*, written at roughly the same time and inspired by many of these same highways.