Photographs, tour diaries, correspondence and other documents relating to Adelaide Bartelme's horseback tours of the Canadian Rockies in 1924, 1925 and 1926. Over 400 photographs from the trips, many captioned and dated in pencil on verso, document Ba...
Description:
Adelaide Bartelme, an American, took several tours of the Canadian Rockies with various guides, including Caroline Hinman and Charles Maynard, in the 1920s.
Subject (Geographic):
Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.), Louise, Lake, Region (Alta.), Banff National Park (Alta.), West (U.S.), Alberta, and Brewster's Kananaskis Guest Ranch (Banff, Alta.)
Subject (Name):
Bartelme, Adelaide., Hinman, Caroline., and Maynard, Charles.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Tourism, Tourists, Women, Women explorers, and Assiniboine Indians
Photographs, tour diaries, correspondence and other documents relating to Adelaide Bartelme's horseback tours of the Canadian Rockies in 1924, 1925 and 1926. Over 400 photographs from the trips, many captioned and dated in pencil on verso, document Ba...
Description:
Adelaide Bartelme, an American, took several tours of the Canadian Rockies with various guides, including Caroline Hinman and Charles Maynard, in the 1920s.
Subject (Geographic):
Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.), Louise, Lake, Region (Alta.), Banff National Park (Alta.), West (U.S.), Alberta, and Brewster's Kananaskis Guest Ranch (Banff, Alta.)
Subject (Name):
Bartelme, Adelaide., Hinman, Caroline., and Maynard, Charles.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Tourism, Tourists, Women, Women explorers, and Assiniboine Indians
20 ALS and 2 autograph manuscripts by Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh. Almost all of the letters were written during his travels on the Continent. Ten were written to his parents and sister in 1818-19 while he was on the grand tour. Let...
Description:
Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hu...
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, Florence (Italy), Italy, Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837., Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Colvile, Frederick Leigh, 1819-1886., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850, Leigh, James Henry, 1765-1823., Leigh, Julia, d. 1871., Leigh, Julia Twisleton, d. 1843., Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., Catholic Church, and Rugby School.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading, Death and burial, Influence, Customs and practices, Authors, English, Dandies, English literature, Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
Holograph journal in two versions (original and fair copy) of a tour from London to Naples and return via Switzerland, Germany and the Low Countries made by the Hincks brothers between March 29th and December 8th, 1823
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, France, Ital, Naples (Italy), Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Etty, William, 1787-1849., Hamilton, William, 1777-1859., Hincks, John, 1788-1842., Hincks, Thomas Cowper, 1788-1865., and Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1777-1844.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Tourists, and Description and travel
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a description of the author's tour through France and Italy in 1770, traveling with his master Robert Fellowes and Thomas Durrant, and recording his interactions with the inhabitants, curious sights, local hygienic pra...
Description:
James Deeker was one of the first aeronauts in England. His hot-air balloon ascent in Norwich in June, 1785, was witnessed by Horace's nephew, George, the 3rd Earl of Orford.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Europe, France, Italy, and Vesuvius (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Deeker, James.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Ruins, Social life and customs, and Description and travel
Autograph diary of a tour through Germany and Italy, with a return voyage by way of Malta, Algiers and Gibraltar, taken by Trollope between September 1843 and April 1844 in the company of his friend Edward Davies. Trollope describes travel arrangement...
Description:
Binding: Original green cloth; spine stamped with "MS. Journal. 1844" in gold letters.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Germany, Italy, Malta, and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Trollope, Charles.
Subject (Topic):
Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Tourists, and Description and travel
"Three separate scenes blend into a single design. The dialogue is etched in the lower margin. On the left a young girl sits on the knee of her father, a stout drink-blotched man wearing a plain old-fashioned wig, breeches, and top-boots. She takes hi...
Holograph diary of Vincent's travels in France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium with "Mr. Payne and his son William." Apparently from Leeds, Vincent records his impressions of scenery, the countryside and "romantic views;" roads and bridges; the cond...
Description:
Binding: contemporary dark morocco wallet binding with yellow kid lining; pockets lined with marbled paper. Brass plate and clasp.
Subject (Geographic):
France., Switzerland., Alps, Alps, Swiss (Switzerland), Belgium, France, St. Bernard, Great, Alps., Switzerland, and Waterloo (Belgium)
Subject (Name):
Vincent, George. and Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.
Subject (Topic):
Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, and Description and travel
Manuscript journal, by a woman, of travel with her husband George from Venice to Rome in the autumn and winter of 1828-29. Topics include sightseeing, excursions to Roman ruins and the Borghese Gardens; social events, including meetings with Sir Hump...
Description:
First few pages cut out.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Italy, and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Camuccini, Vincenzo, 1771-1844., Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848., Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1766-1839., Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829., Gibson, John, 1790-1866., Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., and Wyatt, Richard James, 1795-1850.
Subject (Topic):
Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Women travelers, and Description and travel
