American travelers

Rogayle McGlothlin was born in 1940 and grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas. She became a business editor for the local newspaper, the Beaumont Enterprise and later wrote travel articles for several national magazines. This collection consists of negative slides that were taken diuring her many travel trips to places such as East Asia, Western Europe, Central America, and North America.

The Melody Maids were a girls' choir which traveled the United States and the world to perform for military bases from 1942 to 1972. Led by Eloise Rush Milam, the Melody Maids learned not just music, but also decorum and manners. This collection holds almost 200 scrapbooks made by Ms. Milam and the Maids during the group's thirty years of existence and the decades of celebrations and reunions that followed..