The images document Cleve Boutell's trips to Leningrad and Moscow in 1990 with Mavis Blake, London and Paris in 1989, and Berlin in 1993 for Hortense Boutell's 80th birthday. There are photographs Cleve took of Pasadena in 1992. Other photographs that are undated include images of trips to Middlebury and Washington D.C., Pasadena Lakeview, the "D.D. Parade" with Hortense and her partner Evie, and the Pasadena bookstore Page One.