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Sarah A. Ballard Journal
Collection
Identifier: SC 01603
Scope and Contents
This journal begins in Hartford, CT when Sarah Ballard begins her training to become a teacher. She writes almost exclusively about visiting local schools and of lectures she hears related to the teaching profession. Much of the first portion of her journal is dedicated to understanding different teaching philosophies. She details her approaches to teaching arithmetic, spelling, singing, and grammar. She also addressing religion and attending church services. Ballard gives some description...
Dates:
1850-1858
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Mrs. Thomas H. Bates Travel Diary
Collection
Identifier: SC 01180
Scope and Contents
Travel diary of Mrs. Thomas H. Bates of Ohio to the British Isles via the Queen Mary in an undetermined year, but post-1945. On June 8, she and her husband took the Akronite from Akron, Ohio to New York City. On June 9, they boarded the Queen Mary and traveled to England. They docked at Southampton and took the train to Hereford to a nephew's house. The couple visits her sister in Staffordshire and another sister in Wales and also visit other areas to look for her husband's family. The diary...
Dates:
circa 1946-1955
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Daisy Crisler Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 00931
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters written to and received by Daisy Crisler of Canton, Georgia for the years 1904 and 1914. The letters were written for the most part during ship voyages to Europe. Letters addressed to Daisy Crisler in 1904 were sent by her friend 'Fannie.' Daisy's letters from 1914 describe her own travel experience in great detail. One of the letters is written in a different handwriting and mailed from Georgia. Most letters are written on letterhead of ships...
Dates:
1904-1914
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
John Gilchrist Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC 01085
Scope and Contents
Letters, 1778-1781, of John Gilchrist to 'Peggy' while on board the Galatea and the Loyalist while serving in the Royal Navy. Letters discuss sailing conditions, meeting a French Squadron near Rhode Island, being escorted by the Charon into the Chesapeake Bay, impressions of his ship captains, and other.
Dates:
1778-1781
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Phillip Hamman Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 H17
Scope and Contents
Logbooks and accounts, 1768-1787, of Captain Phillip Hamman of Ipswich, Mass., master of the schooner, Hopewell, and other vessels. Includes logbook, 20 March - 17 April 1768, of a voyage from St. Eustatius, Leeward Islands, West Indies to Ipswich; logbook Feb. 1768; ledger, 1768-1787, of labor and fish trade; logbook, 1769, with memorandum of crew and cargo; logbook, 1787, tallying cargo of corn; and accounts, 1771.
Dates:
1768-1787
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Anna Lou Jose Papers, 1905-1936, 1964
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2011.298
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1905-1936, of Anna Lou Jose on her trips through Europe. Includes details about the sea journey to Europe as well as details of her daily activities and places visited. Also includes information about the first three days of the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin. There is also ephemera that was tucked into one of Jose's diaries from her travels. Also includes an expense book from 1905 to 1906 as well as an undated address book. Finally, there is a diary of an unknown person, dated...
Dates:
1905-1936, 1964
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Mary C. Latta Letter
Collection
Identifier: SC 01568
Scope and Contents
Four page letter addressed to her brother from Evangasimba on the island of Corisco off the coast of Africa. She describes her journey and extended length to sail from Boston to Africa because of the lack of winds and favorable conditions for the vessel. Despite that and a quick, but destructive tornado, the journey across the Atlantic, according to Latta, was a very pleasant one. Upon her arrival in Corisco Latta presented with a few welts or sores on the back of her hand. She thought...
Dates:
1860 November 29
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Maguire Family Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 1995.49
Scope and Contents
Fragment of scrapbook of trips to Europe, Bermuda made by members of the F. H. Maguire family of Richmond, Va. in 1911, 1917-1919 and 1926. Contains postcards, exhibit catalogs and tourist literature. The postcards, 1917-1919, of France were collected by [F.H. Maguire ?] who served as a captain in the U. S. Air Service. The collection includes passenger lists from the S.S. Coronia, May 23, 1911 (Liverpool to New York), R.M.S.P. Orea, June 19, 1926 (New York to Cherbourg and Southampton), and...
Dates:
1911-1929
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Photograph Album of a Cruise to the Caribbean, Central, and South America
Collection
Identifier: MS 00282
Scope and Contents
Photograph Album containing 191 black and white photographs of a trip taken by Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Porter. Their trip was on board the M.V. Georgic run by the Cunard White Star Line from New York. The trip visited ports in St. Thomas, St. Pierre, Martinique, Trinidad, Port of Spain, Grenada, Caracas, Curacao, Cartagena, Columbia, Panama, the Panama Canal, Jamaica, and Havana. Pictures show the Porter's on board the vessel, at dinner, on the "sport" deck, and on excursions. There are...
Dates:
1939
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Nell J. Poehlmann Diaries
Collection
Identifier: SC 00646
Scope and Contents
Diaries, 1947-1948 and 1952, of Nell J. Poehlmann of Petaluma, California. The 1947 diary primarily concerns the trip of Poehlmann and her husband Max Poehlmann from San Francisco to Buenos Aires by going through the Strait of Magellan. Poehlmann then spends a month and a half in Buenos Aires before returning to San Franscisco by going through the Caribbean Sea and the Panama Canal. The 1952 diary concerns Poehlmann's trip to Mexico City, the people with which she travels, and the activities...
Dates:
1947-1948, 1952
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Marie Katherine and Oliver E. Seegelken papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 00389
Scope and Contents
The papers of Marie Katherine and Oliver Seegelken consist of a 1934 diary of the couple's South American sea voyage kept by Marie Seegelken, and of love letters between husband and wife, 1918, 1943, and undated. During WWI, Oliver Seegelken served in the USNRF (United States Naval Reserve Force) in San Pedro, California.The diary is filled not only with an account of each day, but with hand-drawn illustrations of passengers, crew, and ports. Marie Seegelken also wrote vignettes...
Dates:
1918-1943; Majority of material found in 1934
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
USS Franconia Travel Diary (Europe)
Collection
Identifier: SC 01328
Scope and Contents
Diary, 1929, of the trip of an American college student to Hamsburg, Germany, who traveled with his parents and his brother aboard the SS Franconia. Countries visited include Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France, Scotland and England. Entries include information about his departure, his activities aboard ship, and fellow passengers. Also includes details of the locations which they visited, hotels they stayed at, as well as the restaurants, shows they saw, and operas they attended.
Dates:
1929
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center