South America -- Description and travel.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Albert J. Kenyon diaries
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.
Bessie C. Stern and Jeanette Amalie Stern letters : from Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Leaming Forman
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.
Camp family papers
Includes papers of the related Osborn and Camp families.
John D. Lyle South American postcards and reminiscences
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."
John Melmoth Dow papers
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.