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S. Christian, notes of a trip to Europe and return

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0011
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.

Dates: 1900 July 11-September 1

A holiday in Norway and along the way, 1908, being the journal of a trip by Charles H. Cummings and George G. Clark, as kept by the latter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0012
Abstract

This 1909 bound typescript manuscript was prepared by George G. Clark to commemorate his 1908 trip with Charles H. Cummings. Their travel from New York City to Norway by steamer and rail, along with details of experiences in many European locales along the way, is recounted in this travel narrative.

Dates: 1909

On board the ship Governor Morton

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0013
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.

Dates: 1852 March 10-1852 December 20

Incidental notes of a trip to Europe made in 1868

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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

Journal of a voyage to investigate manufacturing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0157
Abstract

This journal was kept by an unknown American travelling in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland in 1811-1812. The author provided detailed accounts of British and Irish infrastructure and manufacturing efforts, as well as descriptions of local landmarks, scenery, and customs.

Dates: 1811-1812

James M. Morton travel journal

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0053
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.

Dates: approximately 1859-1870

J. Hall Rohrman travel journal

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0106
Abstract

The travel journal of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, tinsmith J. Hall Rohrman describes in very detailed language an 1860 trip to Missouri and travels within eastern Pennsylvania from 1871 to 1872. Three religious writings, presumably by Rohrman, have been inserted into the journal.

Dates: 1872 February 8-July 17

Thomas Scattergood journal

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0177
Abstract

This journal was created by Thomas Scattergood (1748-1814), a Quaker minister, pioneer of mental health reform, and early advocate for the creation of Friends Asylum (later Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It describes his travels to various Quaker Meetings in New Jersey and New York between 1789 and 1792.

Dates: 1789, 1791-1792

Emily Shore journals

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0104
Abstract

These three manuscripts are the seventh, tenth, and twelfth of twelve journal volumes created by a young Englishwoman named Emily Shore (1819-1839). Shore wrote these journals between October 1836 and July 1839, while she traveled around southern England, the Channel Islands, and Madeira, before dying of tuberculosis in Funchal, Madeira.

Dates: 1836-1839

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

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0068
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.

Dates: approximately 1834-1872; Majority of material found within 1834-1835

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

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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

Thomas Ward travel journal

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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

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