New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Helen Mantel Diary
Collection
Identifier: SC 00790
Scope and Contents
Diary, 1959, of Helen Mantel of Brooklyn, New York. Includes her daily activities, people with which she meets, and places that they go. It also includes a few very brief entries regarding a trip to Cuba taken in June and July of 1959, months after Fidel Castro had overthrown Fulgencio Batista. Mantel's grandmother lived in Cuba and the family took the trip because she was sick. In a couple of sentences Helen Mantel mentions seeing Batista's daughter in a restaurant, and the fact that her...
Dates:
1959
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Dennis Loy Papers, 1952-1993
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2014.023
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters, diaries, publications and other material collected by Dennis Loy, a gay artist who exhibited works in the Chicagoland area and New York City. Most of the letters were written to Loy by his cousin, American writer and journalist P.J. O'Rourke, and cover such topics as poetry, politics, drugs, art, and gay culture in the 1980s. In one of his diaries, Loy wrote about his trip to India in 1975 and describes the landscape and culture. The other diary is a travel...
Dates:
1952-1993 and undated
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Travel Diary (Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y.)
Collection
Identifier: SC 00697
Scope and Contents
Travel diary (8pp.), 1950, describing the car trip of three young men from Alabama to New York City. The description focuses on their stays in Washington, D.C. and New York City, but there is also some mentioning of the bad traffic during the trip and stops for food and some overnight stays along the way.
Dates:
1950
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center