I got about a dozen Negroes and got it out and started and soon had to cross a creek when the magmeter got wet and had to be worked on. Were coming down a hill just out of Benton and went partly off the bank. Traveled all day and only made about 25 miles. They stay in a hotel called the Hodge's House and says the "bugs" are plentiful. 1716." (Quincy, Bainbridge, Donaldson, Troy. Put the car in the garage and got rooms and had good beds and slept well.
Lost the road in the afternoon and went out of our way about 10 or 20 miles and about dark it rained like the mischief and we had no carbide as John went ahead as path finer and Ed steered after and the roads was up and down hill and the wheels skidded but we finally arrived in Tallahassee about 10. Arrived at Greensville about noon and had dinner. night in Brooksville, about 110 miles out. Got off the road between Libby and Brooksville and were delayed about an hour. From third trip: “The men went in while we fixed dinner and us girls afterwards in our teddies and then put on fresh ones and washed those out.” Throughout her travel entries she uses racist terms as well as the archaic “negro” to describe African Americans they encounter on their travels.Ī partial transcript was provided by the seller: The diarist is presumed to be a white woman. Some expenses and notes are also kept at the back of the diary. The final trip recounted in the diary is dated 1917 and begins in Manatee visiting sites in and round Georgia including Andersonville Prison. The second undated trip begins in Handley, Texas, and returns to Manatee, Florida. The first undated trip begins in Manatee, Florida, and concludes in Sacramento, California. The white travelers are based in Manatee, Florida, and recount travel by earlier automobile including staying at auto camps, hotels, and farmhouses.
The Automobile Travel Diary documents three trips by car in 1917 and earlier.
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