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Tall 8vo. 6 x 9 in. [88 pp (unpaginated).], on blue ruled paper, first 26 pp. filled out in two different manuscript hands in ink & pencil, first part by Elva, remainder by Albert, of approx. 4500 words. Limp tan covers, cloth backing & stapled at upper fore-edge, center crease from folding to insert into backpack, Arts & Crafts decorative borders (light age toning), still a VG exemplar. A concise and informative travel diary written by Elvah Reck, and her husband Albert Reck, a street car conductor for the PRL&P Co., and enthusiastic semi-professional photographer, as they traveled on the ever-expanding railway network in and around Portland, Oregon during the Progressive Era. Elvah notes that on the night before the family was to travel up the Columbia River Gorge, "Bert came home at 1:16 AM, developed negative of Oak Grove base ball boys and made preparations for the morning and retired at 3 AM." Subsequently Bert and family overslept by an hour, and raced to catch the train, and managed to board the Baily Gatzert sternwheeler by 7:00 AM. "Bert took a picture of Rooster Rock and two pictures of Cape Horn." Elvah makes frequent mentions of the beauty of the Columbia River and surroundings, and was fascinated by the working of the Cascade Locks. They left the sternwheeler, and packing three children, their belongings, and camera equipment they secured a camping spot. However, their daughter Norma climbed on an old stump to get a better view and "put her foot in a yellow-jacket nest and the way she climbed down from there and screamed was enough to bring everyone from the other camps . . . we fought yellow-jackets and ran a half mile to keep up with Norma." The family does manage to find an abandoned house to camp in, manage their breakfast, and then hike and travel along the rim, into Oneonta Gorge, and decided later to return back home "on account of Elvah's back."Reck records one of his many photo shoot excursions when on April 3, 1910 he takes off with fellow enthusiast, and machinist, Ed Leppert to take photos at Cazadero, OR, at the time a stop on the Estacada Interurban Railway Line of the PRL&P Co., catching Train No 62, shot logging pictures below Boring, OR, and then fishing near the Clackamas River at Eagle Creek, OR. Leppert (1867-1934) was a fellow Ohioan at the time working for PRL & P Co., as well as in the Albina shipyards, and 3 years later moved to Ogden, UT, before returning to Portland. Aug. 28, 1910, they took Ed along with the family for a week vacation at Seaside, OR after loading the camera, "and all manner of junk into one back-pack, two baskets, and a suitcase." Once again, the family was running late, missed the connection, and barely made Union Station in time to catch the 9:15 train on the Astoria & Columbia Railway to Seaside in three hours along the scenic River. Bert writes they secured a "Furnished Tent" for $ 7.00 for the week, and began shooting photos along the beach, of the bathers, the ocean, the Hotel Moore, and the breakers, and did some crab fishing. One of the days, the sun was out, so Ed and Bert "loaded up our stereo camera & tripod and started down the beach." They trekked along the sand and rocks, "watched a number of porpoises or 'sea hogs' sporting in the Ocean a short distance off shore. . . and [wished] for a telephoto lens." By the time the pair had lugged their camera to the lighthouse, the fog had rolled in obscuring the scenery. Elva Reck (1877-1955) according to census records and street directories had opened a "Racket Store" by 1920, which she operated for a few years. Bert Reck (1877-1972) had moved his family from Ohio by 1903, where he began a lifelong career as a streetcar motorman, as well as shooting and selling photos of hikes on Mt. Hood, digging clams, visiting Nye Beach in Newport, Depoe Bay, and other areas around the PNW. He frequently took photos along the line he ran from Sellwood to Cazadero, to the dam. See: History of Estacada, Faraday, and Cazadero, Oregon, Pacific Northwest Photoblog (Aug. 7, 2014); Portland Railway Light & Power Co., Interurbans, PDXHistory (2017).…