Repository: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts / Record Source: University of Pennsylvania / Subject: Voyages and travels - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Second Lancers photograph album, 1909-1913 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.1 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: The Second Lancers, established in 1809 by William Linnaeus Gardner (1770-1835), was a cavalry regiment in the British Indian Army. It is probable that the creator of this album was a British or Indian officer who served with the Second Lancers between 1909 and 1913. For the most part, military life is not documented--instead the volume consists of formal portraits of British and Indian soldiers; candid photographs of soldiers; portraits of horses; and photographs of a trip to England, equine sports in India (including racing and polo), and a trip to Delhi for the Delhi Durbar held in December 1911 to commemorate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India.

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Dorothy Meyer travel scrapbook, 1940 july 28-august 4 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.1 linear feet ((1 volume))
Abstract:: Dorothy M. Buege (1915-2007), née Dorothy Meyer, was a resident of Kiel, Wisconsin who traveled with friends Eunice Becker and Louise Kissinger from July 28 to August 4, 1940, via Powers Tours of Chicago to east coast locations across Canada and the United States, including the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair. This annotated scrapbook, compiled by Dorothy, documents her travels via photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, maps, ticket stubs, and receipts.

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George Müller letterpress copybook, 1885-1890 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box (.20 linear foot)
Abstract:: A letterpress copybook housed in a portable metal copy press containing the correspondence of George Müller of Germany spanning the years from 1885 to 1890.

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Eugene Labiche travel diaries, "Voyage en Italie", 1834 january 26-august 15 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 linear_foot (2 boxes)
Abstract:: Eugène Labiche (1815-1888) was a French comic playwright known for popular and amusing comedies who traveled to Italy in 1834 at the age of 18. He recorded the daily experiences of his journey through the south of France, Italy, and Switzerland in 44 rough notebooks and 2 fair copy notebooks. His friend, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910), more commonly (and much more famously) known as Nadar, helped Labiche make a fair copy of a portion of his travel diary from his notes and provided a few illustrations in the 2 volumes.

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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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Lewis Mumford papers, circa 1905-1987 (inclusive)

Extent:: 82.5 linear feet (197 boxes)
Abstract:: Comprising nineteen series, the Mumford papers provide extensive documentation of Mumford's professional life over a period of approximately seventy years. Predominant are correspondence and drafts of and notes for Mumford's writings, which include publications of over forty books and pamphlets and approximately one thousand articles and book reviews.

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Photograph album by a British engineer in Pakistan, 1951-1952 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This photograph album was kept by a British engineer working on a hydroelectric project that included building dams at Warsak and Kurram Garhi, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. During a five-month period from 1951 to 1952 the engineer recorded work sites, engineers, landscapes, and street scenes. There are also images from his stops in Cyprus and Rome on his return trip to London.

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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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Hattie L. Sumner notes on the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, 1876 September

Extent:: .1 linear feet (1 volume)
Abstract:: Hattie (Harriet) L. B. Sumner (1861-1959) traveled to Philadelphia from her home in Burlington, Vermont, to visit the Centennial International Exposition in September of 1876. She kept a journal of what she saw, written in list form. It is unclear how long she spent in Philadelphia.

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