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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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Edward Rhoads Longstreth grand tour photograph albums, 1891

Extent:
.5 linear_foot (2 boxes)
Abstract:
These two photograph albums contain over 450 photographs, postcards, and other printed material documenting the European grand tour of Edward Rhoads Longstreth in 1891.

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Florence and Marion Walbridge travel letters, 1881-1898 (inclusive)

Extent:
.2 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:
This collection of thirty-nine handwritten letters from Florence and Marion Walbridge to family members back home in Brooklyn, New York, chronicles their five-month journey throughout Europe and the Middle East. Detailed letters provide an account of their exposure to the cultural legacy of antiquity and the Renaissance through travel.

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Alexander Henry Wylie diary, 1832-1833 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 volume (+ 2 leaves)
Abstract:
Volume containing the travel diary of Alexander Henry Wylie's journies through Europe and Havana, Cuba. The diary spans the years from 1832 to 1833.

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Maberly family diaries, 1817-1870 (inclusive)

Extent:
5 volumes
Abstract:
Small collection of family diaries comprises five volumes written by two authors, presumably father and son Charles Hensley Maberly and Alexander Cahill Maberly. The first four volumes were written in French by Charles Hensley spanning the years from 1817 to 1821. The fifth volume was written by Alexander Cahill Maberly in 1870 during a European tour.

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Eugene Ormandy family home movies, 1932-1947 (inclusive)

Extent:
3.58 linear feet (3 boxes)
Abstract:
The Eugene Ormandy family home movies are amateur films shot between 1932 and 1947 by conductor Eugene Ormandy on his own hand-held camera and by others when Ormandy appears in the films. The content of the films includes scenes of Ormandy conducting the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. Also included are arrivals and departures at train stations along with musicians from his two resident orchestras. Otherwise, the content of the films is primarily scenes of leisure. The locales include his home in Minneapolis, MN, European cities including London, Vienna, and Stockholm, and several vacations in the Austrian alps, as well as vacations in Florida, Bermuda, and New Hampshire. There are also several scenes aboard passenger ships on his way to or from Europe. The people included in his films are primarily his first wife, Stephanie "Steffy" Goldner Ormandy, as well as her mother, sisters and brother, her sisters' spouses and...(see more)

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Charles Godfrey Leland letters to George Henry Boker, 1861-1937 (inclusive) 1869-1870 (bulk)

Extent:
0.2 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:
Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) was a humorist and folklorist from Philadelphia. The collection consists of fourteen illustrated letters written to George Henry Boker which document one year of Leland's trip to Europe from 1869 to 1870; transcriptions of the letters; and an article by donor and scholar Sculley Bradley about the collection.

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Ronald Beck scrapbook of Royal Air Force service and travel memorabilia, 1942-1969 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.3 linear feet
Abstract:
George Ronald Kinloch Beck (1907-1993) was an officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. This scrapbook contains about 20 pages of photographs, correspondence, clippings, and other memorabilia that documents his military service from 1942 to 1945. Another 49 pages of photographs, photographic post cards, maps, itineraries, and brochures, document trips to Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, and Africa, from 1955 to 1969.

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Holy Land trip diary and slides, 1955

Extent:
.2 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:
This collection contains a diary and slides documenting a 1955 trip to Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land.

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