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Inland Automobile Association

About this collection

The Images

The Inland Automobile Association photograph collection consists of digitized prints from a photo album created by the association's secretary, Frank W. Guilbert. As part of an effort to promote tourism by automobile, the Inland Automobile Association participated in the 1916 National Parks Highway Association trip from Chicago to Mount Rainier National Park. Guilbert documented the 3,100 mile journey in detail, from the start on Lake Michigan in Chicago to the boundary of Mount Rainier National Park. The images show typical small towns, rural road conditions, and vehicles encountered.

Historical and Biographical Note

The Inland Automobile Association (IAA) is headquartered in Spokane, Washington. It maintains an affiliation with the American Automobile Association (AAA). During the early 1900s, the IAA joined with other persons and groups to promote motor transportation and improved highways. One of the concepts aggressively promoted was automobile tourism. A series of trips were organized between 1912 and 1916 by the National Parks Highway Association. Frank W. Guilbert (1872 - 1940), the secretary of the IAA, was a participant on the 1916 trip designed to publicize the scenery along the route. A scrapbook of photographs documenting the trip was filed with the Inland Automobile Association. The images in this digital collection are all taken from the scrapbook of this 1916 trip.

The Archival Collection

The Inland Automobile Association Records were donated to the Archives & Special Collections at EWU by the association in 1974. They include records of the Spokane County Good Roads Association, correspondence, and newspaper clippings in addition to the photographs viewable in this digital collection. Online finding aid available: http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv11444.

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  • A paved road at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center located on the route of the National Parks Highway Association tour by Frank W. Guilbert

    A paved road at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center located on the route of the National Parks Highway Association tour

  • A paved street at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center with a church in the background on the route of the National Parks Highway Association tour. by Frank W. Guilbert

    A paved street at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center with a church in the background on the route of the National Parks Highway Association tour.

  • Chicago intersection where the National Parks Highway Association tour began by Frank W. Guilbert

    Chicago intersection where the National Parks Highway Association tour began

  • City limit sign asking drivers to slow down and respect the law by Frank W. Guilbert

    City limit sign asking drivers to slow down and respect the law

  • Great Lakes Naval Training Center by Frank W. Guilbert

    Great Lakes Naval Training Center

  • Great Lakes Naval Training Center by Frank W. Guilbert

    Great Lakes Naval Training Center

  • Group of men sitting in and gathered around one of the official Mitchell Six automobiles used during the National Parks Highway Association tour by Frank W. Guilbert

    Group of men sitting in and gathered around one of the official Mitchell Six automobiles used during the National Parks Highway Association tour

  • Group of men sitting in and gathered around one of the official Mitchell Six automobiles used during the National Parks Highway Association tour by Frank W. Guilbert

    Group of men sitting in and gathered around one of the official Mitchell Six automobiles used during the National Parks Highway Association tour

  • L.H. Brown and Jimmy Hoag from the National Parks Highway Association tour are standing with a group of naval cadets by Frank W. Guilbert

    L.H. Brown and Jimmy Hoag from the National Parks Highway Association tour are standing with a group of naval cadets

  • L. H. Brown and W. G. Eden from Chicago standing near one of the official Mitchell Six cars for the National Parks Highway Association tour by Frank W. Guilbert

    L. H. Brown and W. G. Eden from Chicago standing near one of the official Mitchell Six cars for the National Parks Highway Association tour

  • Man posing for the camera at the beginning of the National Parks Highway Association tour by Frank W. Guilbert

    Man posing for the camera at the beginning of the National Parks Highway Association tour

  • Man standing with hands in pockets looking off into distance on the National Parks Highway Association tour by Frank W. Guilbert

    Man standing with hands in pockets looking off into distance on the National Parks Highway Association tour

  • Naval cadets on the lawn of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center by Frank W. Guilbert

    Naval cadets on the lawn of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center

  • Naval cadets posing with two of the official Mitchell Six automobiles by Frank W. Guilbert

    Naval cadets posing with two of the official Mitchell Six automobiles

  • Official Mitchell Six automobile from the National Parks Highway Association tour by Frank W. Guilbert

    Official Mitchell Six automobile from the National Parks Highway Association tour

  • Official Mitchell Six automobile from the National Parks Highway Association tour by Frank W. Guilbert

    Official Mitchell Six automobile from the National Parks Highway Association tour

  • Official Mitchell Six touring car parked in front of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center with two men sitting inside it. by Frank W. Guilbert

    Official Mitchell Six touring car parked in front of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center with two men sitting inside it.

  • Official Mitchell Six touring car parked on rural road with man standing behind. by Frank W. Guilbert

    Official Mitchell Six touring car parked on rural road with man standing behind.

  • One of the official Mitchell Six touring cars parked on the side of a rugged dirt road by Frank W. Guilbert

    One of the official Mitchell Six touring cars parked on the side of a rugged dirt road

  • One of the official Mitchell Six touring cars sunk in mud on rural dirt road. by Frank W. Guilbert

    One of the official Mitchell Six touring cars sunk in mud on rural dirt road.

  • Touring car parked on dirt road in front of a bridge by Frank W. Guilbert

    Touring car parked on dirt road in front of a bridge

  • Touring cars from the National Parks Highway Association tour, parked in Great Lakes Naval Training Center by Frank W. Guilbert

    Touring cars from the National Parks Highway Association tour, parked in Great Lakes Naval Training Center

  • T. S. Lane and L. H. Brown in front of one of the official Mitchell Six cars for the National Parks Highway Association tour by Frank W. Guilbert

    T. S. Lane and L. H. Brown in front of one of the official Mitchell Six cars for the National Parks Highway Association tour

 
 
 

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