Frank Place Scrapbooks of Trail Clippings, 1908-1950

Scope and Content Note

This scrapbook collection of trail clippings, compiled by Frank Place, consists of news items and articles from newspapers and magazines pertaining to walking and hiking trails. Also included are some poems about walking. Most of the clippings are from New York and New Jersey newspapers, primarily from The New York Times and The Evening Post. Articles about walking written by Place are included, as are clippings from a weekly column called "The Long Brown Path" by Raymond H. Torrey which appeared in The New York Evening Post.