Scrapbook of a trip around the world
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Description
- Title
- Scrapbook of a trip around the world
- Creator
- Bell, Lynn Morley, 1913-1997
- Contributor
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Bell, Lynn Morley, 1913-1997
British Union of Fascists
Velikai︠a︡ Sibirskai︠a︡ magistralʹ - Published / Created
- 1934 May-November
- Abstract
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Bell left from San Francisco, California, to Vancouver, Canada. He then visited tourist sites in Hawaii, Japan, China, the Soviet Union, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, England, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, before returning to the United States via New York. His narrative details his impressions of the different locales, including a description of travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the Soviet Union. The volume also includes material related to a political rally of the British Union of Fascists in October 1934. Snapshot photographs throughout the volume depict sites and street scenes along his journey.
Scrapbook that documents a trip around the world by Lynn Morley Bell, May-November 1934. The volume includes narrative about the trip, as well as circa 130 mounted photographic prints, circa 145 newspaper clippings and printed items, and 15 booklets and pamphlets tipped in or laid in. Hotel stickers and travel decals, mostly from Japan and the Soviet Union, cover the boards of the volume, while the rear pastedown includes 11 photographs of United States consulates or legations visited by Bell.
- Description
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Lynn Morley Bell (1913-1997) was born in Dinuba, California. He was the son of Geoffrey Bell (1889-1961) and Hazel Winderdale Franklin Bell (1889-1957), and grew up in Ukiah, California. In 1938, he graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, and then worked as a salesman. In June 1939, he married Julia Powell (1916-1996), and they lived in Palo Alto, California.
Purchased from Marc Selvaggio Bookseller on the Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Memorial Fund, 2009. - Extent
- 1 v. (191 p.) ; 35 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- YCAL MSS 712
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- mixed material
- Genre
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Photographic prints
Scrapbooks - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Geographic)
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Asia--Description and travel
Europe--Description and travel
Soviet Union--Description and travel - Subject (Name)
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Bell, Lynn Morley, 1913-1997
British Union of Fascists
Velikai︠a︡ Sibirskai︠a︡ magistralʹ - Subject (Topic)
- Voyages around the world
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Lynn Morley Bell, Scrapbook of a Trip Around the World. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11662574
- Object ID (OID)
- 16862772