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Pennsylvania--Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0028
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...
Dates: 1834 April 21-August 29
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Henry C. Pratt journals

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0160
Abstract

In these two journal volumes, Henry C. Pratt recorded his travels through southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1825 and his voyages as Surgeon’s Mate in the United States Navy between 1826 and 1828.

Dates: 1825, 1826-1828
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Travel journal through the Mid-Atlantic

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0142
Abstract

This journal of an early twentieth-century woman contains autograph entries describing eating, drinking, sightseeing, and shopping in New York City and several excursions within the Mid-Atlantic region in the 1930s. The entries are accompanied by numerous black and white photographs of locations visited during her trips.

Dates: approximately 1935 May 5-12
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Miriam E. Welliver travel diary

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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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