A rare 1926 photograph album documents a road trip from Los Angeles to Death Valley. The 76 images and diary entries capture automobiles, abandoned mines, homesteads and desert landscapes. Preserved in the University of California archives.

In 1925 Eve Adams opened a small tearoom in Greenwich Village where lesbian women could gather openly. She also wrote one of the earliest books about lesbian life in America. Within a year she was arrested and deported. In 1943 she was murdered in Auschwitz.

In 1920 a journalist walked nearly 4,500 kilometres across Australia following the Trans Australian Railway. The following year he attempted something even bigger: walking around the entire continent.