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Tourism--Europe--History--20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010116666

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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

Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0684
Abstract Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in North Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The Hargraves were the last family to privately own Rockwood before its donation to New Castle County in the mid-1970s as a historic house museum and public park. The Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves family papers document the personal and professional lives of several generations of Delawareans...
Dates: 1660-1987; Majority of material found within 1735 - 1975

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