Travel
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Edward E. Ayer typescript memoir
Collection — Box 1: [translation missing: en.instance_container.barcode: 31151030118909]
Identifier: MS-0719
Overview
Edward Everett Ayer (1841-1927) was an American business magnate, best remembered for the endowments of his substantial collections of books and original manuscripts to the Newberry Library and Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He had over time built an immense fortune out of supplying timber to the 19th century's fast-growing railroad industry. The collection contains a bound volume of a memoir written by Ayer, titled Reminiscences and Travels of Edward E....
Found in:
Special Collections
/
Edward E. Ayer typescript memoir
Elisabeth Gilman papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0235
Overview
Elisabeth Gilman was born in New Haven, Connecticut, December 25, 1867. She was the younger daughter of Daniel Coit and Mary (Ketcham) Gilman. Her father was a college professor and the first president of The Johns Hopkins University. The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, diaries, newspaper clippings, printed material, memorabilia, and photographs.
Found in:
Special Collections
/
Elisabeth Gilman papers
Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0385
Overview
The collection of German architect, Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer, consists of four bound volumes of letters (1827-1830) to his father and two volumes of his poetry (1819-1859).
Italian visiting cards
Collection — Box 1: [translation missing: en.instance_container.barcode: 31151030133460]
Identifier: MS-0692
Overview
This collection consists of six engraved Italian visiting cards from approximately 1780.
Found in:
Special Collections
/
Italian visiting cards
James D. McCabe papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0080
Overview
James D. McCabe, Jr. (1842-1883) was a popular writer of more than 30 works including histories, biographies, and plays. The collection consists of letterbooks, unpublished manuscripts, and photographs dating from 1862 to 1881.
Found in:
Special Collections
/
James D. McCabe papers
Johns Hopkins University Alumni College records
Collection — Box 1: [translation missing: en.instance_container.barcode: 31151030118909]
Identifier: RG-12-050
Overview
The Alumni College was established by the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association in approximately 1973, to provide alumni with travel learning opportunities, better known as "education vacations." The collection spans from 1970 to 1974.
Mendes I. Cohen itinerary
Collection — Box 1: [translation missing: en.instance_container.barcode: 31151030051969]
Identifier: MS-0189
Overview
Mendes I. Cohen (1796-1879) was a Baltimore-based veteran of the War of 1812, banker, world traveler, and a member of the Maryland Legislature. This collection consists of a bound hand-written manuscript titled, "Diary of Six Years' Travels in Europe, Egypt, Nubia, Arabia, and the Holy Land from 1829 to 1835."
Found in:
Special Collections
/
Mendes I. Cohen itinerary
Robert Louis Stevenson manuscript
Collection — Box 1: [translation missing: en.instance_container.barcode: 31151030051696]
Identifier: MS-0186
Overview
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. The collection consists of a binder containing a hand-written chapter from a volume of Robert Louis Stevenson's In the South Seas.
Found in:
Special Collections
/
Robert Louis Stevenson manuscript