Subject: Voyages and travels--History--19th century - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

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."

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Journal of Travels Commencing from the Year 1798, 1827-1828 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 volume (1450 pages)
Abstract:: Richard Champney's memoir, which he entitled in full "Journal of Travels commencing from the year 1798, through various parts, of England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Canada, United-States of North America, Denmark, Germany, Holland, & the Netherlands. &c. by Richard Champney," was handwritten in four bound volumes and are a polished and edited version of daily journals kept by Richard Champney and his parents. The journals detail Champney's childhood journey from London, England, to Lexington, Kentucky, where his father had acquired property in settlement of a debt and the five-year struggle to live there. The journals describe Champney's return to England and subsequent education, career as a sailor on a merchant vessel, as well as his enlistment in the militia and service in Wellington's Peninsular Campaign during the Napoleonic Wars.

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My Journey to Memphis, 1866-1867 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (176 pages)
Abstract:: This journal belonged to P. B. Durfee and chronicles two trips from Providence, Rhode Island, to Memphis, Tennessee, where he worked as a clerk during the 1860s.

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Diary of Journey taken for health in 1834 - from Franklin - South to Mount Vernon Virginia, back through Western Maryland Pennsylvania N.Y. Niagara, Canada - Rochester Oswego - then home - from April 21 to August 14th, 1834 april 21-august 29 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (136 pages)
Abstract:: This journal chronicles abolitionist Milton M. Fisher’s 1834 journey from his home in Franklin, Massachusetts, to Virginia, and back. The trip, taken for both health reasons and as an information gathering expedition for anti-slavery efforts, took Fisher through numerous northern states, the Mid-Atlantic region (including Maryland and Delaware), and Washington, D.C., to Virginia. Along the way he commented on the various towns, cities, and institutions he visited and recorded conversations with locals including both free and enslaved African-Americans.

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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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Voyage to China: To China and back, 1863-1869 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 volume
Abstract:: These four volumes contain three handwritten variations of the travel narrative of nineteenth-century American sailor George Arthur Gray recorded on his roundtrip voyage from Boston to China between March 1863 and May 1866. The original diary entries were expanded into a full narrative, which Gray apparently hoped to publish. The narrative focuses on Chinese social customs, the Chinese coast, and the details of a sailor's life.

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The overland narrative of John Grindell: Platteville, Wis., to California 1850 : typed carbon copy, 1850 march 25-august 1 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (18 pages)
Abstract:: This typed transcript of a journal chronicles Platteville, Wisconsin, resident John Grindell's 1850 overland journey west during the California Gold Rush.

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A year in England, 1893-1896 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (242 pages)
Abstract:: This travel journal documents two trips to London, England, taken by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, resident Mary Olmstead Ives in the 1890s. Mary, who accompanied her husband Frederic Eugene Ives and son Herbert, described the journey by steamship to England, as well as events, social engagements, landmarks, tours, and local customs.

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Journal of Rev C. C. Mitchell from New York/Boston to Smyrna 1841, 1841 january 18-march 10 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (44 pages)
Abstract:: This journal, belonging to missionary Colby C. Mitchell, chronicles his 1841 journey from Boston, Massachusetts, to Smyrna, Turkey. It describes life aboard the ship and some sightseeing in Turkey and Rhodes.

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