Explains the trip's purpose and that the album was originally compiled by Phyllis Gentieu, and that Norman Gentieu removed the photographs and transferred them to archival housing for preservation purposes.

Outlines daily activities during the trip.

Includes: Skyline Drive, Shanandoah National Park; Barbara Frietchie House; Parthenon in Nashville; Almadura Apartments; Frisco-Harahan Bridge; Desoto Park; Memphis Municipal Airport; views of Clarksdale, Mississippi; Memorial Cemetary in Memphis; Muscle Shoals, Memphis Technical High School; Helen Keller's birthplace in Tuscombia, Alabama; Memphis Free Zoo; Southwestern University; and Riverside Park.

Includes: Masonic Home Grounds in Louisville; views of West Badan, Indiana; Cherokee Park; Western Kentucky State Teachers College; French Lick, Indiana; Churchill Downs; J.M. Atherton High School; Hanover College; Fort Knox; Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site; Rob Morris birthplace in LaGrange, Kentucky; Shawnee Park; State Capitol in Frankfurt, Kentucky; and Belvoir Apartments.

Includes: Allegheny Mountain Tunnel; a tobacco field; State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Union General Sheridan statue in Somerset, Ohio; a covered bridge near New Holland, Ohio; and Miss American Beauty Pageant parade on Atlantic City boardwalk.