This photograph album documents the McCarthy family from Dayton, Ohio as they travel across the United States to California from June through December 1921. During the family's travels they visited a variety of places including Hannibal, Missouri, Pikes Peak, Colorado, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Flagstaff, Arizona, cliff dwellings, the Grand Canyon, the Mojave Desert, San Gabriel Valley, California, and Pasadena, California. A brief description of each place is written below the photographs in the album.