This page contains images from a travelogue written by Arvid Anderson (my maternal grandfather) describing a trip he and a friend made to the US East Coast and to England in the summer of 1912. The travelog is hand-typed and bound, with numerous pasted images and nostalgic inserts. It is quite fragile, so I feel the best way to provide this info to family members is through this WWW page.
Arvid Wilhelm Anderson, son of Andrew Lorentz Anderson (1859-1911) and Eva Christina Johnson (1859-1941), was born in 1887, so the travels described in this travelogue took place when he was about 26. Several years later he married Florence Peterson (born 1890), with whom he had three children: Erma Irene (born 1918), Alice Virginia (born 1921) and Edward Lorentz (born 1925). Florence is among the signatories on the 'Testimonials' page (see below). Arvid died in 1956.
The original travelogue is bound in such a way as to make xeroxing or scanning problematic without specialized equipment. That fact, along with certain time pressure, led me to create the images using a cell-phone camera, and so the production quality is rather rough. I think I've got all the pages so they are readable in a standard browser and in the correct orientation. The images are in the order of the original travelogue. Some pages contain fold-outs and inserts. When that happens, the images of the inserts provide what I hope you will find a pleasant detour from the primary narrative. A more sophisticated presentation may (or may not) be available at some point in the future.
All images here are presented for your nostalgic pleasure, are copyright to Erik Butterworth, and may not be used for any commercial purpose. Thanks to Tyler Butterworth for the photography.
Selected starting points for the narrative are below:
Last updated: Erik Butterworth - June 4, 2015
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