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Karl Bissinger papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0682
Abstract

The papers of American photojournalist, restaurateur, and peace activist Karl Bissinger (1914-2008) encompass nearly seventy years of professional activity. This collection not only provides abundant documentation of Bissinger's careers in photography and social activism, but also offers rich visual resources for the history of photography in post-World War II America.

Dates: 1800, 1935-2008

Jeanie Groome Black travel diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0004
Abstract

These three bound diaries were kept by Delaware resident Jeannie Groome Black during her travels in Europe with a group of ten Delawareans from October 13, 1890, to November 25, 1891.

Dates: 1890 October 13-1891 November 8

Summer Brenner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0617
Abstract

The Summer Brenner papers offers a comprehensive view of an American poet and novelist's life across four decades beginning in the 1960s. The collection includes extensive personal correspondence and journals, literary manuscripts and drafts documenting all stages of the writing and publishing process, and Brenner's work from magazine contributions, book publications, and community projects.

Dates: 1962-2005

Journal of Travels Commencing from the Year 1798

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0009
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...
Dates: 1827-1828

Conard-Pyle Company records supplement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0634s
Abstract

The Conard-Pyle Company records supplement includes substantial additions to the series in the original collection, as well as records which constitute three new series related to the Atlantic Coast Nurseries, Inc., printed material, and Robert Pyle's professional papers.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1910-2000

Clementina Dalcour travel diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0122
Abstract

This travel diary belonging to American foreign language instructor Clementina Dalcour documents her European travels between 1891 and 1903, including travel in Paris, Antwerp, and Brussels. Some entries, such as those written in Paris, are in French.

Dates: 1891-1903, 1919

Incidental notes of a trip to Europe made in 1868

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0029
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.

Dates: 1868 June 3-November 24

William A. Ingram diary of European travel

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0115
Abstract

This travel diary documents the mid-nineteenth-century European excursion of American William A. Ingram. Along with several other young male friends, he visited Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Austria.

Dates: circa 1853

Walter Courtenay Pepys travel journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0120
Abstract

The journal of Englishman Walter Courtenay Pepys chronicles trips to Italy, France, Monaco, and Algeria in 1867. Entries describe travel conditions, landmarks visited, hotels, meals, and social engagements.

Dates: 1866 December 31-1868 January 13

Berta Ruck travel journals

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0362
Abstract

Six volumes of Welsh writer Berta Ruck's travel journals, including correspondence, photographs, and ephemera. Ruck records partial drafts of her works in progress, accounts of her financial and romantic difficulties, and memorabilia from her travels. She also details the growing anti-Semitism and the gradual rise of Nazi support in Austria.

Dates: 1928-1937

Notes on trips to Paris, Normandy and Brittany : Notes on a trip through the Smoky Mountains in 1935

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0069
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.

Dates: 1933-1939

Journal of the U.S.S. Enterprise

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0070
Abstract

Deck log describing the journey of the United States steam sloop Enterprise from New York to European Station duty from November 1, 1878, through May 10, 1880.

Dates: 1874-1882; Majority of material found within 1878 November 1-1880 May 10

Thomas Ward travel journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0078
Abstract

This journal was kept by Thomas Ward, Jr., and chronicles his sightseeing trip to England, Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy in 1860. Entries provide a record of the voyage and a summary of each day of sightseeing.

Dates: 1860 June 12-September 15

Selina C. Washburn travel diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0080
Abstract

American Selina C. Washburn kept this travel diary during her 1854 voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, to London, England, and Paris, France. Selina and her sister Sarah accompanied their father Cyrus Washburn on a business trip and her diary records her impressions of persons encountered, shops visited, and sightseeing excursions.

Dates: 1854 July 5-October 13

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France--Description and travel 12
Travelers 6
Italy--Description and travel 5
Photographs 5
Voyages and travels--History--19th century 5
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Correspondence 4
Tourism--Europe--History--19th century 4
Clippings (information artifacts) 3
England--Description and travel 3
Europe--Description and travel 3
Germany--Description and travel 3
Ireland--Description and travel 3
Specimens 3
Switzerland--Description and travel 3
Travelers--Diaries 3
Austria--Description and travel 2
Belgium--Description and travel 2
Collages (visual works) 2
Cuba--Description and travel 2
Ephemera (general) 2
Galley proofs 2
Journals (accounts) 2
Military officers 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
Paris (France)--Description and travel 2
Slides (photographs) 2
Spain--Description and travel 2
Tourism--Europe--History--20th century 2
Travelers' writings, American--19th century 2
Women travelers--19th century 2
Activists 1
Alexandria (Egypt)--Description and travel 1
Alexandria (Egypt)--History--19th century 1
Algeria--Description and travel 1
American literature--20th century 1
American poetry--20th century 1
Antwerp (Belgium)--Description and travel 1
Antwerp (Belgium)--History--19th century 1
Armed Forces--Officers--Diaries 1
Authors, American--20th century 1
Beirut (Lebanon)--Description and travel 1
Beirut (Lebanon)--History--19th century 1
Berkeley (Calif.)--Description and travel 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Business records 1
Calendars 1
Catalogs (documents) 1
Cádiz (Spain)--Description and travel 1
Cádiz (Spain)--History--19th century 1
Chapbooks 1
Color transparencies 1
Commonplace books 1
Contact sheets 1
Contracts 1
Copenhagen (Denmark)--Description and travel 1
Copenhagen (Denmark)--History--19th century 1
Costa Rica--Description and travel 1
Crew lists 1
Cruise ships--History--20th century 1
Drafts (documents) 1
Educators 1
Egypt--Description and travel 1
England--Social life and customs--19th century 1
Farmers 1
Farmers--Diaries 1
Fashion photography--History--20th century 1
Financial records 1
Frontier and pioneer life-- Kentucky 1
Gardening--Periodicals 1
Gardening--Societies, etc.--History--20th century 1
Gardening--United States--History--20th century 1
Germany--History--1789-1900 1
Government records 1
Grand tours (Education)--History--19th century 1
Great Britain--Description and travel 1
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)--Description and travel 1
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Histories (literature genre) 1
Horticultural products industry--History--20th century 1
Isle of Wight (England)--Description and travel 1
Isle of Wight (England)--History--19th century 1
Itineraries 1
Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)--Description and travel 1
Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)--History--19th century 1
Kennett Square (Pa.)--History--20th century 1
Kentucky--Description and travel 1
Kiel (Germany)--Description and travel 1
Kiel (Germany)--History--19th century 1
Kristiania (Norway)--Description and travel 1
Kristiania (Norway)--History--19th century 1
Le Havre (France)--Description and travel 1
Le Havre (France)--History--19th century 1
Lectures 1
Licenses 1
Lisbon (Portugal)--Description and travel 1
Little magazines 1
Logbooks--19th century 1
Madeira (Madeira Islands)--Description and travel 1
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Language
French 5
German 1
Norwegian 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Admiral (Ship) 1
Arctic (Steamship) 1
Atlantic Coast Nurseries, Inc. 1
Barosso Transport (Ship) 1
Beck, Julian, 1925-1985 1
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Bissinger, Karl 1
Bissinger, Karl. The luminous years : portraits at mid-century 1
Black, Jeanie Groome 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
Brenner, Summer 1
Brenner, Summer--Archives 1
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 1
Cafe Nicholson 1
Campbell, Sandy 1
Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994. Stimmen von Marrakesch. English 1
Chaikin, Joseph, 1935-2003 1
Champney, Margaret 1
Champney, Richard, 1794- 1
Champney, Richard, 1794- --Diaries 1
Champney, Thomas, 1761-1816 1
Chester, Laura 1
Chester, Laura--Correspondence 1
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- 1
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- --Correspondence 1
Conard-Pyle Co. 1
Crumb, R. 1
Crumb, R.--Correspondence 1
Dalcour, Clementina 1
Di Prima, Diane 1
Domestic Resurrection Circus 1
Enterprise (Sloop) 1
Fatherland (Ship) 1
Frym, Gloria 1
Frym, Gloria--Correspondence 1
George Washington (Ship) 1
Gifford, Barry, 1946- 1
Gifford, Barry, 1946- --Correspondence 1
Giles, Isabella, -1890 1
Giles, John C., approximately 1825-1893 1
Giles, John C., approximately 1825-1893--Diaries 1
Giles, Mary Annie 1
Gray, George, 1840-1925 1
Gregg, Linda 1
Hanley, Richard 1
Ingram, William A. 1
Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, 1948- 1
Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, 1948- --Correspondence 1
Lewis, Edna 1
Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.) 1
Malina, Judith, 1926-2015 1
Martinelli, Sheri 1
Nicholson, John, 1916-2016 1
Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961 1
Open Theater 1
Owens, Jeanne 1
Paley, Grace 1
Paul Taylor Dance Company 1
Pepys, Walter Courtenay, 1840- 1
Pyle, Robert 1
Rodefer, Stephen 1
Rodefer, Stephen--Correspondence 1
Rorem, Ned, 1923- 1
Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 1
Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980 1
Selfridge, T. O. (Thomas Oliver), 1836-1924 1
Sowden, Emily 1
Sparhawk, George, active 1874-1882 1
Sparhawk, George, active 1878-1880--Diaries 1
The Figures 1
Thomas (Passenger ship) 1
United States. Navy--History--19th century 1
United States. Navy--Officers--Diaries 1
War Resisters League 1
Ward, Thomas, Jr., active 1860 1
Warrener (Ship) 1
Washburn, Selina C. 1
Washington (Passenger ship) 1
Windham, Donald 1
Young, Geoffrey, 1944- 1
Young, Geoffrey, 1944- --Correspondence 1
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