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Rae Lawton travel diary to California

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0155

Abstract

This travel diary documents the trip Illinois-native Rae Lawton made to California as a young woman in 1905. In addition to Lawton's thoughts on religious topics, daily chores and time spent with friends and family, the diary recorded her impressions of several areas in California including Santa Rosa, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

Dates: 1905

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Emilie Sargent scrapbook of West Indies and South American cruise aboard R.M.S. Mauretania

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0010

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...

Dates: 1933-1935

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Miriam E. Welliver travel diary

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0172

Abstract

The Miriam E. Welliver travel journal documents this Pennsylvania school teacher's month-long, 5,100 mile automobile trip across 19 states and Canada via handwritten journal entries, black-and-white photographs, postcards, telegrams, plant specimens, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous materials.

Dates: 1934

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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Rae Lawton travel diary to California

Berta Ruck travel journals

Emilie Sargent scrapbook of West Indies and South American cruise aboard R.M.S. Mauretania

Miriam E. Welliver travel diary

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