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Germany -- Description and travel.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Aaron L. Binenkorb films

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6689
Abstract

Fifty nine films created by Aaron L. Binenkorb documenting travels in Spain, Russia, Sweden, Italy, Singapore, Norway, Greece, Morocco, Holland, India, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Trinidad, France, Bali, Tahiti, Samoa, South Africa, Denmark, Portugal, and Germany.

Dates: [ca. 1950-1980]

Adna Ferrin Weber papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2872
Scope and content

Collection includes photographs; notebooks; professional and popular writings, 1899-1913; correspondence, notes, references, and reviews concerning Weber's GROWTH OF CITIES; student exams, notebooks, papers, and treatises from Cornell University; and miscellaneous items relating to Cornell, including one handwritten letter from President Jacob Gould Schurman.



Dates: 1884-1966.

Albert Nelson Prentiss miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065223491]
Identifier: 21-17-2525
Scope and content

Cabinet card and other photographs of Prentiss, his house, and family; wedding announcement; and letter from his wife, Addie Eldred Prentiss, describing their travels in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany.

Dates: 1878-1924.

Andrew Dickson White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-2-2
Abstract

Collection consists of papers relating to White's activities as educator, politician, and diplomat.

Dates: 1832-1919.

Benjamin P. and Nola A. Young papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065355400]
Identifier: 6457
Scope and content

Ledgers, with detailed accounts of family and household expenditures, 9 volumes, 1923-1973; two scrapbooks (primarily with postcards), three travel diaries, folder of international driving licenses and automobile information, and letters home from a European tour that the Young family took in 1935; and diaries of Nola A. Young (some five-year volumes), 16 volumes, including three travel diaries, 1916-1970.

Dates: 1923-1973.

Bunnell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3875
Abstract

Contains letters from Catharine Sterling Bunnell to her parents describing her activities as an archeology student and her travels in Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Also contains papers of her mother, Katherine S. Day, and sketches by Bella (Dollabella) Day.

Dates: 1887-1937.

Charles E. Bennett papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-9-596
Scope and content Lecture notes concerning Greek and Roman history, civilization, archaeology, and language; speeches and writings on education in the United States and Germany, some of which were written while Bennett was a secondary school teacher and principal in Nebraska; notes and manuscripts for Bennett's works on Greek grammar and dialects, the Archaeological Institute of America, and similar topics; a long reminiscence, "An American Student in Europe," describing student life, customs, and cities in...
Dates: 1882-1918.

Eunice Cornell letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065317384]
Identifier: 6332
Scope and content

11 letters written home to her parents in Ithaca, New York while she was on a grand tour of Europe with Mary Emily Cornell, from England, Germany, Switzerland, and France, describing her travels and the sights seen.

Dates: 1880.

Hans Albrecht Bethe oral histories

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065186649]
Identifier: 14-22-2521
Scope and content Oral history interviews with Hans Bethe conducted by Charles Weiner and Jagdish Mehra on Oct. 27-28, 1966, Nov. 17, 1967, and May 8-9, 1972. Subjects include natural radioactivity; ideas of nuclear constitution, size in 1920s; Gamow-Condon-Gurney theory of alpha decay, 1928; discovery of the neutron, 1932; Cambridge as a center of research, 1933; early theories of nuclear forces; analysis of short-range nuclear forces, 1935-1940; reasons for writing Reviews of Modern Physics review...
Dates: 1966-1981.

Letters from Nellie Marie Reed

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070588847]
Identifier: 6973
Scope and content Typescripts transcripts of letters from Nellie Marie Reed to her mother, Amelia Elisabeth Leonard Reed and her brother Raymond Clinton Reed, who were living in Ithaca, describing her voyage across the Atlantic, her travels in Germany (Weimar, Jena, Berlin), her trip to Greece via Vienna and Constantinople, and her studies at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and her return trip through Rome, Florence, and London. Letters were transcribed by her granddaughter, Ann Townsend,...
Dates: 1895-1896.