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TRAVEL-RELATED COLLECTIONS
This list gives the collection name, date range and number of items in a collection followed by a very brief description of the contents of the collection. All of these collections are related to travel.
AMERICAN LITERATURE MSS.- DATE RANGE: 1806-1969
- Of interest is Without My Gloves: I Find America, an account written by Maie E. Clements Perley, who traveled from Great Britain to the United States in 1940.
- DATE RANGE: 1818-1876
- ITEM COUNT: 566 items
- Papers of textile designer William Adolphus Ashton. Includes Ashton's journal, a record of expenses and list of articles carried on the 1834 voyage from England to America on the ship "Montezuma." Also includes 1849-1850 journals of flatboat journeys on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers made by salesmen for Ashton.
- DATE RANGE: 1873-1981
- ITEM COUNT: 1,779 items
- Consists of the correspondence, family papers and other items collected by George Alexander Ball, his wife Frances Emily Woodworth Ball and their daughter Elisabeth Woodworth Ball of the Ball glass manufacturing family of Muncie, Indiana. Includes a journal of a 1913 trip to Panama, miscellaneous files on the subject of adventure/travel and an album of photographs of a ca. 1901 railroad journey.
- DATE RANGE: 1838-1886
- ITEM COUNT: 581 items
- Papers of Jacob Bartholomew of Ohio and California. In 1850 he went overland from Ohio to California. He returned to Ohio in 1858-59, then sailed from New York for California with his bride, the former Emily Ebersole. Includes Jacob Bartholomew's 1850 overland diary and Emily Ebersole Bartholomew's 1859-1861 diary which details the journey from New York to California via ship and by train across the Isthmus of Panama.
- DATE RANGE: 1828-1881
- ITEM COUNT: 37 items
- Papers of George Augustus Bicknell of New Albany, Indiana, professor of law at Indiana University and a member of Congress. Includes a ca. 1833-1836 diary account of a trip through the middle west written by Bicknell. Also includes a 1866-1867 private log about a cruise to China written by Bicknell's son Rear Admiral George Augustus Bicknell.
- DATE RANGE: 1867-1873
- ITEM COUNT: 64 items
- Letters and documents from the papers of General John Eugene Smith, in command of Fort Philip Kearney, Dakota Territory, 1867-1869. Includes material relating to the carrying of mails on the Bozeman Trail, military escorts for wagon trains and a manuscript map of the Bozeman Trail.
- DATE RANGE: 1878-1949
- ITEM COUNT: 4,786 items
- Papers of world traveler and author Lewis Browne. Includes Browne's 1926 European travel journal which contains an excellent account of Jews in the countries he visited. Also includes a 1932-33 diary of a trip to Hawaii and Japan and 1935 observations of a trip to Russia and the Mediterranean and other undated items about the Far East.
- DATE RANGE: 1850-1877
- ITEM COUNT: 28 items
- Letters from David S. Cook in California to his family and friends in Illinois. Topics discussed in the letters include overland journeys.
- The Cranstone sketches are a series of 312 sketches in pen and ink and wash by Lefevre J. Cranstone. They depict a visit to the U.S. in 1860.
- DATE RANGE: 1849-1864
- ITEM COUNT: 88 items
- Papers of Captain Medorem Crawford, Quartermaster's department, U.S. volunteers and a member of the Oregon legislature. Includes an 1861 overland diary of LeRoy Crawford (Medorem's brother) and a list of names of the members of that expedition. Also included is Medorem Crawford's diary of a 1862 journey by boat from Oregon to New York by way of Panama and return to Oregon by overland from Omaha, Nebraska conducting a military escort for the protection of emigrants.
- DATE RANGE: 1895-1978
- ITEM COUNT: 591 items
- Papers and memorabilia of businessman Hanford Crawford of St. Louis, Missouri. They include diaries for six months of 1911 that Crawford and his wife traveled through Europe, the Near East, Scandinavia, Russia, Manchuria and Japan. Also in the collection are photographs primarily from their travels, but also including two photograph albums from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. These albums were created by female photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals.
- DATE RANGE: 1790-1949
- ITEM COUNT: 249 items
- Consists of overland diaries, journals of travel by water and accounts of transportation in the Far West collected by oilman Robert Spurrier Ellison. See the Manuscripts Department catalog for detailed information.
- DATE RANGE: 1843-1874
- ITEM COUNT: 63 items
- Papers of lawyer Stukely Ellsworth. Of interest is a diary kept by Stukely on a tour through New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts in 1850.
- DATE RANGE: 1630-1971
- ITEM COUNT: 523 items
- Of interest is an 1809 journal of a tour in England, Ireland and Scotland written by member of parliament, William Dickinson. Describes one of the mills in Manchester as well as a calico printing and dyeing mill. Also of interest is Retrospect of Western Travel by Harriet Martineau. This 1834 book deals with the authors' personal experiences while traveling in America for two years.
- DATE RANGE: 1819-1939
- ITEM COUNT: 150,006 items
- Letters and papers of Charles Warren Fairbanks, U.S. senator and vice-president of the U.S. Of interest are a group of glass slides from Fairbanks's trip around the world in 1909- 1910.
- DATE RANGE: 1900-
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 7,950 items
- Correspondence and writings of author Emily Hahn. Contains Hahn's letters home to her family while she lived and travelled in Europe, Africa and China during the 1920s and 1930s. This correspondence is particularly descriptive of people, places and activities.
- DATE RANGE: 1815-1838
- ITEM COUNT: 178 items
- Consist of 169 sketches made in various locations throughout the U.S. and Canada with the camera lucida in 1827-1828 by Basil Hall, naval officer and author.
- DATE RANGE: 1915-1951
- ITEM COUNT: 4,286 items
- Papers of labor leader Powers Hapgood. They include drafts of his account of his trip around the world, 1924-1926, entitled "Diary of an American Miner Abroad."
- DATE RANGE: 1843-1930
- ITEM COUNT: 86 items
- Papers of Stephen Selwyn Harding, lawyer, governor of Utah territory and chief justice of Colorado Territory. Consists of letters from Harding on his overland trip to Salt Lake City in 1862 giving his observations on conditions and events in each place and on the overland journey. Included is a typescript of Harding's undated account of the sights he witnessed in the slave markets of New Orleans in 1828.
- DATE RANGE: 1838-1845
- ITEM COUNT: 19 items
- Letters of physician John Sloan of New Albany, Indiana written to family members living in Maine. Letters discuss emigration to the mid-west.
- DATE RANGE: 1906-1907
- ITEM COUNT: 72 items
- Papers of Edna Johnson, assistant professor of English at Indiana University to members of her family during a year of travel in Europe.
- DATE RANGE: 1835-1906
- ITEM COUNT: 3,248 items
- Papers of Joseph Lane, first territorial governor of Oregon. The collection deals largely with Oregon affairs. Of interest is material dealing with military and other roads, river and stage coach transportation, and immigration to Oregon. There is also material on overland travel and proposed railroads to the West coast. Included is an account of crossing the plains by covered wagon in 1852.
- Of interest in Latin American mss. Chile: Relacion Diaria Del Viaje Maritimo, y descubrimiento de las costas del sur... written by naval officer Pascual de Iriarte, dated 1675-1676. Also, Diario de la Navegacion de la Fragata del Rei Santa Maria de la Cabeza del mando del Capitan de Navio Don Antonio de Cordova al Reconocimiento del Estrecho de Magallanes... written by naval officer Dionisio Alcal Galiano dated 1785- 1786. There are several other travel accounts, for further information contact the Manuscripts Department.
- DATE RANGE: 1814-1931
- ITEM COUNT: 183 items
- Papers of farmer George Washington Logan of Cass County, Indiana. Some Logan family members emigrated to Kansas and there are letters concerned with emigration from Indiana to Kansas.
- DATE RANGE: 1908-1928
- ITEM COUNT: 161 items
- Travel diaries of William Darnall MacClintock, professor of English. These diaries concern trips to the Philippines and to Europe.
- DATE RANGE: 1875-1878
- ITEM COUNT: 9 items
- Papers of Horatio N. Maguire, printer, editor, and judge. Includes an undated account of an overland journey from Bismarck, North Dakota to the Black Hills in the spring of 1876. This journey was guided by a scout named Buckskin Bill.
- DATE RANGE: ca. 1930-1933
- ITEM COUNT: 4 items
- Scrapbook and photograph albums compiled by Margaret Day Manchester while she was traveling in the Far East.
- Of interest is a 1834-1841 journal and memorandum book of the plantation "Thomas" in British Guiana and travels in Great Britain. Includes descriptions of several trips to the United Kingdom written by plantation owner R.G. Butts. Also, an 1834-1835 journal of an European tour written by Henry Bertie and an anonymous 1849 diary of boat and overland trips in the U.S. and Canada.
- DATE RANGE: 1911-1980
- ITEM COUNT: 117 items
- Papers of Deborah Starr Waters Norvelle. The collection contains a travel diary of her first trip abroad in 1927 as well as 13 notebooks containing travel notes dated 1953-1979. Also included are travel mementos. The correspondence consists chiefly of Norvelle's letters to family members while she was traveling. The recipients then returned the letters to Norvelle so they the letters constitute a supplement to her travel diary and journals.
- Of interest is "Itinerario para el Padre Comisario para Espana" written by the missionary Manuel de la Cruz in 1700. This is a compendium of advice to procurators of the Augustinian mission in the Philippines who were sent to Spain to recruit new friars for the mission. Includes observations about various countries and climates and the conditions on shipboard in the Atlantic and the Pacific. Also of interest is "Acaecimientos desde el Dia primero de Nobienbre de el ano de 1757. Dados fondo en el Puerto de Fansua...", which is a log of several voyages in the South China Sea.
- DATE RANGE: 1809-1868
- ITEM COUNT: 970 items
- Papers of William Polke, judge, commissioner for the Michigan road, and conductor of the removal of the Potawatomi Indians from Indiana in 1838. Of interest is a copy of undated reminiscences of an adventurous overland journey from LaPorte County, Indiana to Portland, Oregon written by John Winchell Cullen, step-grandson of William Polke.
- DATE RANGE: 1885-1918
- ITEM COUNT: 40 items
- Papers of and relating to the family of farmer Andrew Jackson Roberts. Includes a 1887-1888 travel diary of an overland trip from Indianapolis to the west coast.
- DATE RANGE: 1815-1888
- ITEM COUNT: 42 items
- Papers of Riley Root, teacher, surveyor and inventor. Includes an account of a ca. 1835 journey to Peoria by way of the canal, steamboat from Buffalo to Chicago to Peoria, Illinois and gives a description of the surrounding country.
- DATE RANGE: 1838-1965
- ITEM COUNT: 95,355 items
- Papers of Edward Aloysius Rumely of Indiana. Rumely traveled in Europe during 1900-1906 and in the collection there are letters home to his family describing his travels.
- DATE RANGE: 1869-1890
- ITEM COUNT: 10 items
- Papers of archeologist Heinrich Schliemann. Includes a 1869 diary of his visit to America in French, English and Spanish.
- DATE RANGE: 1817-1987
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 30,500 items
- Letters of Hannah Whitall Smith and other family members. Of interest are the letters and diaries of Mary Smith Berenson who traveled extensively in Europe.
- ITEM COUNT: 123 items
- Of interest: "Dependencias y existencias Del viaje numero 2 y 3 De la fragata Resolucion A Cadiz" which concerns the affairs of the second and third voyages of the frigate "Resolucion." Also, an undated "De jure et justitia belli contra indos ad Philip. II Hisp. Regem." written by Vincent Paletinus, which has bound with it a copy of an account of the circumnavigation of the globe by Magellan and Juan Sebastian del Cano.
- Of interest: a 1788-1807 memorandum book written by Evan
Roberts, farmer and town official.
- Includes a listing of expenses for coming to America in 1794 from Wales, history of journey to America in 1794 on the "Astria" with Captain Alexander Askin, and other journeys and places lived until 1797 (in Welsh), list of boat names and names of travelers and settlers from Wales to the U.S.
- A 1830-1831 journal of a cruise on board the "U.S.S. Guerriere" written by Commander Charles C.B. Thompson about a voyage from Valparaiso, Chile to Callao, Peru.
- Dated 1841-1845, remarks on board the ship "Addison" of New Bedford, Mass. on a whaling voyage.
- A 1843 diary of a journey from Boston to St. Louis and return, entitled "I started for the West."
- A 1844-1846 log of the whaling barque "Sarah."
- A 1848-1852 journal of a whaling voyage to the Pacific Ocean in the ship "Archer."
- Copies of 1850 letters from clerk of the courts Samuel Millikan to his wife, Rhoda Houghton Millikan, en route to California.
- A 1851-1852 journal of a business trip through numerous states of the U.S. written by liquor dealer Charles B. Cotten. Includes description of the country, the cities, the people and customs.
- DATE RANGE: 1917-1977
- ITEM COUNT: 654 items
- Papers of author Louis Untermeyer. Of interest is a 1973 diary of a music tour on the "Renaissance" (Paquet Line).
- DATE RANGE: 1867-1924
- ITEM COUNT: 6 items
- Copies of papers of Oliver N. Unthank, telegraph operator at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, and his family. Includes a copy of a 1924 letter which gives an account of an overland journey.
- DATE RANGE: 1796-1919
- ITEM COUNT: 3,948 items
- Papers of Samuel Williams and his son, Samuel Wesley Williams. Samuel Williams served in the War of 1812 and later was connected with the General Land Office in Washington D.C. From 1815-1845 he was chief clerk in the office of the surveyor-general of the Northwest Territory. Of interest is a 1841 journal of a voyage from Cincinnati, Ohio to Nashville and back.
- DATE RANGE: 1813-1841
- ITEM COUNT: 34 items
- Letters from army officer Charles Wyndham to various family members. Of interest is a group of letters written in 1822 which give an excellent description of Wyndham's hazardous journey to join his regiment in India.