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Miriam McFate’s 1926 Travel Journal

In 1926 my grandparents, Clarence and Miriam Abia McFate of rural Poweshiek County, Iowa, built a ‘home’ on the back of what I believe was a Model TT Ford truck, and moved the family (3 adults, 5 children and a dog) to Long Beach, California. They traveled 2800+ miles over the span of 41 days, about 35 of those moving from camp-to-camp. This collection is grandma’s daily journal plus whatever supporting material I could dig up on short notice.

My work on this project is also preparation for the publication of excerpts from the journal which will appear in the Spring 2025 edition of Rootstalk - A Prairie Journal of Culture, Science, and the Arts.

Be advised, this is a work-in-progress and still contains language that may be offensive to some. My grandmother meant no harm so please don’t be offended; I will try my best to faithfully sanitize the language as this collection comes together.

– Mark A. McFate

About CollectionBuilder CSV

The University of Idaho Library’s Digital Collections was built using CollectionBuilder-CSV.

CollectionBuilder-CSV is a “Stand Alone” template for creating digital collection and exhibit websites using Jekyll, given:

• a CSV of collection metadata
• a folder of images, PDFs, audio, or video files

Driven by your collection metadata, the template generates engaging visualizations to browse and explore your objects. The resulting static site can be hosted on any basic web server.

CollectionBuilder is an set of open source tools for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that are driven by metadata and powered by modern static web technology. See CB Docs for detailed information.

{% include feature/image.html objectid="demo_001" width="75" %}

Include a PDF

• PDF – > {% include feature/pdf.html objectid="demo_002" width="50" %}

Include a Video

• Video: {% include feature/video.html objectid="demo_004" %}

Include an Audio File

• Audio: {% include feature/audio.html objectid="demo_003" %}

Include Bootstrap Features

The template also provides includes to make it easier to add Bootstrap components to your Markdown writing. These features allow you to better organize and highlight your content.

Include a Card

• Card – > {% include feature/card.html header="This is a Card" text="The card features an image from the collection as a cap" objectid="demo004" width="25" centered=true %}

Include a Button

• Buttons – > {% include feature/button.html text="Button Link to Somewhere" link="https://collectionbuilder.github.io/" color="success" %}

Include an Alert

• Alerts – > {% include feature/alert.html text="this is an *alert* that 'warns' a user" color="warning" align="center" %}

Include a Modal

• Modals – > {% include feature/modal.html button="This is a modal using a 'primary' colored button to invite clicking" title="when clicked:" text="A Modal will pop out a box with some more information" color="primary" %}

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