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- Creator:
- Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866
- Published / Created:
- 1831-1832.
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 618
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 88
- Abstract:
- A sketchbook with ninety-six leaves of wove paper containing thirty drawings documenting some of the places visited by Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville during their 1831-1832 tour of the United States and Canada. The views are dated but n...
- Description:
- Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866), French author and prison reformer, made a nine-month-long tour of the United States with his colleague Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) between May 9, 1831, and February 20, 1832. The pair traveled by steamboat, horse...
- Subject (Geographic):
- France., United States, Choctaw Nation, Fort Howard (Wis.), Fort Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.), Mobile Bay (Ala.), Montmorency River (Québec), New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.), Newport (R.I.), Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.), Ohio River, Oneida Lake (N.Y.), Québec (Québec), Saint Lawrence River, Sault Sainte Marie (Mich.), Sing Sing (N.Y.), Stockbridge (Mass.), Superior, Lake, and Wheeling (W. Va.)
- Subject (Name):
- Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866., Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859., Auburn Prison, and Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Choctaw Indians, Indian Removal, 1813-1903, Prisons, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Voyage en Amerique : depuis le 10 mai 1831 jusqu'au 21 février 1832, 1831-1832






