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Edith Mary Mellor travel diary, 1934-1935 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 boxes
Abstract:
A travel diary by Edith Mary Mellor (1890-1976) recounting her journey from London, England to Jerusalem and Egypt from November 1934 to January 1935. Accompanying the diary are travel materials, post cards, correspondence, and some photogrpahs.

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Gladys Rutherford photograph album, 1923-1928 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 volume (+ 10 photographs, 4 leaves)
Abstract:
A photograph album kept by Gladys Rutherford, a physician and medical missionary who worked in India throughout her life. The album provides a visual record of Gladys Rutherford's first five years as a practicing doctor and medical missionary in Northern India from 1923 to 1928.

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Album of beautiful seaweeds, souvenir de Torquay, circa 1860-1870 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 volume (+ 1 leaf)
Abstract:
A herbarium by an unknown collector was probably created in the 1860s. The album of twenty-four leaves comprises seaweed specimens collected at Torquay, England, specimens of plant and tree leaves, and color prints.

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Pictorial postcard albums, 1907-1909 (inclusive)

Extent:
3 boxes (0.7 linear foot)
Abstract:
Two volumes comprised of 235 picture postcards compiled by an unnamed person, probably from Adelaide, South Australia. The postcards represent the compiler's journey throughout British occupied India spanning the years from 1907 to 1909. Twenty-eight postcards are of European cities. A majority of the postcards have handwritten commentary and remarks on the versos creating a postcard travel journal or diary.

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H. Ehlers Ahmednagar prisoner of war camp photograph album, circa 1914-1918 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.2 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:
Ahmednagar, a city and fort in India, was the site of one of Great Britain's prisoner of war camps during World War I. This camp held both prisoners of war and German and Austrian civilians from 1914 and 1918. This photograph album, belonging to H. Ehlers, contains 54 photographs that document life at Ahmednagar. The landscape surrounding the camp; the buildings; the inhabitants (both military and civilian prisoners); and the prisoners' pastimes, espeically sports and cultural activities are particularly well represented.

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Aaron M. Myers papers, 1916-1942 (inclusive) 1935-1936 (bulk)

Extent:
0.9 linear feet (3 boxes)
Abstract:
A collection of photographs from Dr. Aaron M. Myers' travels in England and Scotland in 1935 to 1936, as well as assorted playbills, tickets, newspaper clippings of theatrical reviews, and other ephemera of the 1930s theatre scene in England and Philadelphia.

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Paul Schrecker collection of Austrian World War I ephemera and publications, 1914-1922 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.8 linear_foot (3 boxes)
Abstract:
Paul Schrecker (1889-1963) was a philosopher and professor. There is little information on Schrecker's life during World War I, except that he appears to have been a civilian in Vienna. This collection documents a Viennese citizen's home front experience during World War I. Shrecker saved ephemeral material relating to German propaganda, German efforts to finance the war, German war heroes and memorialization of Germany's participation in World War I, prisoner of war experiences, and rationing, as well as election material from 1919.

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Japanese Imperial Naval Squadron training cruise postcards relating to the 1922-1923 cruise, 1922-1923 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.2 linear_foot (1 box)
Abstract:
The Training Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Renshū Kantai, operated from 1903-1940. Graduates of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy would spend several months in training deployment throughout the Pacific Ocean and beyond, occasionally venturing as far as the Mediterranean Sea or the East Coast of the United States. This collection consists of picture post cards documenting the 1922-1923 training cruise of the Japanese Imperial Naval Squadron which traveled to Honolulu, Los Angeles, the Panama Canal, Rio de Janeiro (to attend a naval review commemorating the 100th anniversary of Brazil's independence), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Capetown and Durban, South Africa.

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