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Emilie Sargent scrapbook of West Indies and South American cruise aboard R.M.S. Mauretania, 1933-1935 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: The Emilie Sargent scrapbook documents Sargent’s travels to the West Indies and South America aboard the cruise ship R.M.S. Mauretania in the fall of 1933. The scrapbook comprises approximately one-hundred-pages of photographs, newsletters, postcards, programs, menus, newspaper clippings, souvenirs, and other ship ephemera gathered during the cruise, which stopped at the following ports of call between September 9 and September 22, 1933: Trinidad, La Guaira (Venezuela), Curacao, Colon (Panama), and Havana (Cuba).

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

A. Grossman account book of travel expenses, 1885 july 1-1886 may 8 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This account book was kept by A. Grossman as he traveled with a party of people from England to Scotland, Belgium, Austria, Germany, and France between July 1885 and May 1886.

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Joseph Hoare Beale journals, 1796-1848 (inclusive)

Extent:: 9 volume
Abstract:: The Joseph Hoare Beale journals, 1796-1848, consist of nine volumes kept by a world traveler of the late eighteenth to late nineteenth-centuries. Beale, who may have been of Irish origin and served as secretary to Lord Thomas Pitt in Ceylon before traveling to America, recorded weather observations, activities, and expenses in the five "daily weather diaries." He also produced a holograph of Sir Thomas Moore's "Sacred Melodies."

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

S. Christian, notes of a trip to Europe and return, 1900 july 11-september 1 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This journal documents the return voyage of S. Christian from Liverpool, England, to New York City on the liner Campania after a sightseeing trip to Europe.

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On board the ship Governor Morton, 1852 march 10-1852 december 20 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (approximately 200 pages)
Abstract:: Journal kept by the passenger John Clarke aboard the ship Governor Morton documenting the trip from New York to San Francisco between March 12, 1852 and December 20, 1852.

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David, David, and Smith travel and real estate journals, 1851-1906 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 volume
Abstract:: These diaries, contained in four volumes, highlight daily life and travel to Wyoming, social activities, and real estate business, primarily in Iowa and Wyoming between 1851 and 1906. Individuals named B. B. David, E. C. David, and William W. Smith produced three of these four volumes. The final compiler of the diaries is unknown.

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Incidental notes of a trip to Europe made in 1868, 1868 june 3-november 24 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (approximately 258 pages)
Abstract:: John C. Giles's journal contains a detailed account of his daily activities on a grand tour of Europe taken with his wife and daughter from June 3 to November 24, 1868. Giles described landmarks, churches, museums, plays, concerts, weather, hotels, transportation, shopping, dining, correspondence, people met, and social activities.

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James M. Morton travel journal, approximately 1859-1870 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (164 pages)
Abstract:: The journal of Massachusetts resident James Madison Morton contains accounts of two trips to South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama taken in 1859 and 1861. It also contains brief notes and memoranda dated from 1859-1870.

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Journal of voyage to England- travels in England, Wales, Ireland Scotland voyage home, March 29th - Oct. 25th 1834 : Journal of a voyage to Rio de Janeiro-Bahia-Pernambuco New York, Dec 15th 1835, approximately 1834-1872 (inclusive) 1834-1835 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 volume (170 pages)
Abstract:: Reverend Theodore William Snow's travel journal chronicles three separate trips to the British Isles and Brazil in the 1830s. Snow’s ink and pencil entries fill a marbleized paper-covered account book and detail travel by ship, landmarks and structures seen, events, social customs, and religious practices.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Notes on trips to Paris, Normandy and Brittany : Notes on a trip through the Smoky Mountains in 1935, 1933-1939 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 volume (approximately 400 pages)
Abstract:: These two travel journals belonging to Emily Sowden contain descriptions of trips to France, the Southeast United States, and Latin America in the 1930s. The entries feature itineraries with commentary and are supplemented by numerous postcards, photographs, small maps, and plant specimens.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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