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South America -- Description and travel.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Albert J. Kenyon diaries

 Collection
Identifier: 1953
Abstract

Diary entries concern Kenyon's activities aboard the U.S.S. Dacotah and the U.S.S. Wasp and shore visits to Valparaiso, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, and other South American ports.

Dates: 1867, 1871.

Bessie C. Stern and Jeanette Amalie Stern letters : from Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Leaming Forman

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065230900]
Identifier: 37-5-1421
Scope and content

Correspondence between the Stern sisters and the Formans includes topics such as Dr. Forman's opinions concerning American involvement in World War II; the Formans' travels in Central and South America, Europe, Egypt, and the West Indies; Dr. Forman's election to the city council in Ithaca, New York; and other subjects.

Dates: 1906-1933.

Camp family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 891
Abstract

Includes papers of the related Osborn and Camp families.

Dates: 1817-1953.

John D. Lyle South American postcards and reminiscences

 Collection — Manuscript box 73 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070588748]
Identifier: 6974
Scope and content

6 postcards of scenes from Leticia, Colombia, including several of Mike Tsalickis capturing an anaconda. Also typescript reminiscences about Lyle's travels and work in Amazonas and elsewhere in South and Central America: "In Search of the Lost Tribe: Lessons of an Undergraduate Anthropologist."

Dates: 1974-1978.

John Melmoth Dow papers

 Collection — Mapcase folder 3
Identifier: 2765
Abstract

Personal and professional papers of John M. Dow. Also included are letters and newspaper clippings concerning political events in Central America in the second half of the nineteenth century. Dow also pursued his interests as a naturalist, exploring the Central American coast to collect marine flora and fauna.

Dates: 1798-1918.