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Unidentified Owner diary, 1895

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 194
Scope and Contents Has 247 hand numbered pages recording travel through Europe from June through December 1895. Many locations are listed along with each entry, including: Edinburgh, Furrness Palace Hotel, Braemar, York Station Hotel, Bull Hotel, Cambridge, London, Holland, Berlin, Wittmoch, Potsdam, Heidelberg, etc. The diary contains some recipes, addresses, a section of autographs, and a log of correspondence. Written in both ink and pencil by one hand. Three small faded photographs. Multiple newspaper...
Dates: 1895

Unidentified Owner diary, 1945-1987

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 195
Scope and Contents

Page a day diary partially filled by unidentified owner, graduate of Bryn Mawr College. Page a day format not used. Entries dated from 1945 to 1987. Mix of hands. Combination of pencil and ink. Entries describe travels, shows attended, shopping trips, etc.

Dates: 1945-1987

Frances Arnold diary, 1908

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 196
Scope and Contents Frances Arnold was a minor member of the Cornish Colony in Cornish, NH where she summered in the early 1900s. This is her diary from 1908 and chronicles her 3 1/2 month Grand Tour of southern Europe, Egypt, and the Middle East where she made daily notes. One of her companions was Louis Comfort Tiffany, famous glass-maker and founder of Tiffany Studios. In the summer she was at Cornish and schmoozed with August St. Gaudens, Fred Maxfield Parrish, Stephen Parrish, Winston Churchill, and...
Dates: 1908

Anna Van Eps Burdick, 1905

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 197
Scope and Contents Candid manuscript account of a voyage on the Cunard liner R.M.S. Carpathia from New York to Italy and travels in the latter during the spring and summer of 1905 by Anna Van Eps Burdick of New York, in company with her mother, sisters Mary and Katrina, and several other female friends. Burdick's many comments on what she saw are especially important for the light they shed on her own and her group's mindset. Stopping to see Gibralter on their way to Italy, to which they devoted most of their...
Dates: 1905

Unidentified Owner diary, 1820

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 198
Scope and Contents

A lengthy leather-bound diary written in English by a young man visiting Europe. Covers period May 14 1820 through June 22 1820 giving detailed descriptions and observations of his interests in Flushing, Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Hague, etc. Approximately 52 handwritten pages describing the art, fortifications, construction of dikes, historical background inventions, etc. The back of the book, reversed, contains "Change sur Genes" and "Change sur La Prussie" in French.

Dates: 1820

Ella M. Cram diary, 1900

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 199 vol. 1
Scope and Contents Series of manuscript travel diaries, the first diary written by Ella M Cram of Keene, Essex County, NY, while she traveled, July 2 to August 11, 1900 from Ashland, NH, to Boston, Fall River, and New York, thence by steamship to England, where she spent much time in London before moving on to Antwerp, Belgium, Brussels, and Paris (where she toured the 1900 Exhibition), after which she returned to Britain, whence she sailed for the United States on the S.S Lucania--the second and third...
Dates: 1900

Ella M. Cram diary, 1900

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 199 vol. 2
Scope and Contents Series of manuscript travel diaries, the first diary written by Ella M Cram of Keene, Essex County, NY, while she traveled, July 2 to August 11, 1900 from Ashland, NH, to Boston, Fall River, and New York, thence by steamship to England, where she spent much time in London before moving on to Antwerp, Belgium, Brussels, and Paris (where she toured the 1900 Exhibition), after which she returned to Britain, whence she sailed for the United States on the S.S Lucania--the second and third...
Dates: 1900

Ella M. Cram diary, 1900

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 199 vol. 3
Scope and Contents Series of manuscript travel diaries, the first diary written by Ella M Cram of Keene, Essex County, NY, while she traveled, July 2 to August 11, 1900 from Ashland, NH, to Boston, Fall River, and New York, thence by steamship to England, where she spent much time in London before moving on to Antwerp, Belgium, Brussels, and Paris (where she toured the 1900 Exhibition), after which she returned to Britain, whence she sailed for the United States on the S.S Lucania--the second and third...
Dates: 1900

Ella M. Cram diary, 1900

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 199 vol. 4
Scope and Contents Series of manuscript travel diaries, the first diary written by Ella M Cram of Keene, Essex County, NY, while she traveled, July 2 to August 11, 1900 from Ashland, NH, to Boston, Fall River, and New York, thence by steamship to England, where she spent much time in London before moving on to Antwerp, Belgium, Brussels, and Paris (where she toured the 1900 Exhibition), after which she returned to Britain, whence she sailed for the United States on the S.S Lucania--the second and third...
Dates: 1900

V. R. W. diary, 1925

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 200
Scope and Contents

Record of her trip to Yellowstone Park with stops in Chicago, Salt Lake City (bathing in Salt Lake, mentions of Mormons and Bringham Young), West Yellowstone, tour of the Park, Old Faithful Inn, Grand Canyon, Mammoth Hot Springs, Sylvan Lake, and Cody, Wyoming. Contains: 19 mounted photographs. 1 ticket from Pullman Passenger's.

Dates: 1925