Compiled by Nebraskan, Swedish-American dairy farmer Norris Dean Anderson, this scrapbook contains photographs and postcards documenting an automobile camping trip from September 15, 1940 to 1941. Anderson, along with his father and sister, visited Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. The majority of the album is focused on rice farming and turkey ranching in and near Oroville and Richvale, California.

The Anderson family drove a 1930/1931 Model A Ford four-door sedan with a camp trailer. The album opens with photographs of Wray, Colorado cornfields destroyed by heavy rains, followed by views of stops along the way to Laramie, Wyoming, and onto Salt Lake City, Utah. Among the site, the Andersons attended a Mormon Tabernacle organ recital and visited Promontory Rock. The photographs go on to showcase their trip through Twin Falls and Nampa, Idaho, Lakeview, Oregon, Mount Shasta, Lassen National Park, and San Francisco (with several views of the Golden Gate and Oakland Bay Bridges).

The scrapbook contains several photographs and accounts of rice farming and harvesting in Richvale, California. Hand-colored photographs show a caterpillar tractor pulling a reaper, followed by the threshing, separating, and loading for transport to local agricultural warehouses. The farmers appearing in the photographs include Albert Lundberg, Arnold Lentz, and Frank Johnson, all midwesterners drawn by land promoters to Butte County. The clay soil of that area was initially unsuitable for most crops: heavy and sticky when wet, overly hard when dry. Korean American farmers began teaching them rice growing techniques in 1912, laying the foundation for the town to eventually become the epicenter of rice production in California. The aerial photograph with blueprint plat map key shows the Lindberg, Lundberg, Grell, Lentz, and other rice farm holdings as well as the warehouses, Swedish Church, School House, stores, land office, lumber yard, and paper mill.

Other subject material represented in the album's photographs include gold dredging in Oroville, Califonia, turkey ranching (herding, camp trailers, brooder house, etc.), a railroad oil tank car being installed for tractor fuel, pilot Luldena Clover flying a biplane to seed rice fields, the Las Plumas Power house, dam, and suspension bridge over the Feather River, and the Shasta Dam construction project. Stops along the way include Chico, Corning, Santa Monica, Glendale, Beverly Hills, and the Boulder Dam.