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Voyages and travels

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Hugh Olmsted papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064920360]
Identifier: 3200
Scope and content Included is correspondence between Captain William Fancher and Lydia Fancher during his enlistment in the Union Army, 1861-62; childhood correspondence of Everett Ward Olmsted and Bula Hubbell; correspondence of Silas Olmsted, Emily Ward Olmsted, and Everett Ward Olmsted; photocopied wills of Nicholas Olmsted, 1863, and Richard Olmsted, 1864; Silas Olmsted notebook, 1826; Silas Olmsted Jr. journal of a trip west, 1835; photographs of members of the Olmsted family, as well as Lydia Fancher,...
Dates: 1683-1971,-1832-1911 (bulk)

James Hyndford Rawlins papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 42 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065248738]
Identifier: 1814
Scope and content Journal of a paper mill owner describing his travels in the United States and Canada, including his visits to schools, paper mills, factories, museums, scenic sights, and visits with friends in Ithaca, Batavia, Niagara Falls, in New York, and Toronto, Cleveland, and elsewhere; extensive comments on the quality of teaching in the public schools, technological advances, transportation, and architecture; account of a visit to Cornell University. Also, letters from Harriette, James, and Richard...
Dates: 1846-1873.

Joy family journals

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6014
Abstract Diary of Arad Joy (1812-1813) discusses events during his service in the War of 1812 including punishment of deserters, living conditions, a visit to Niagra Falls, a skirmish, and duties as paymaster. The travel journals of Henry Joy (1844) relate details of his trip through the Midwest, including accommodations, a meeting with a former senator from Ohio, Mr. Spaulding, and a sermon by Harriet Beecher Stowe's husband, Dr. Calvin Stowe, discussion of the Pennsylvania Dutch and their farming...
Dates: 1812-1813, 1844.

Justin S. Morrill papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1146
Abstract

Correspondence, drafts of speeches, pamphlets and other printed material, mainly relating to the Civil War and Reconstruction, the status of freed blacks, the tariff and international trade, passage of the Land Grant College Act, and other public questions.

Dates: 1814-1937, 1982.

Mabel V. Root letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938958]
Identifier: 2236
Scope and content

Copies of letters sent by Mabel Virginia Root to her family concerning a summer visit (1908) to Italy and Greece in the company of Charlotte Holmes Crawford and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Leaming Forman.

Dates: 1908.

Maria Mansfield White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 601
Scope and content

Composition and entry book (1825-28) and Castle Hall Seminary notebook (1827-36) of Maria Mansfield; also, Maria Mansfield White's journal of a trip to Florida (1868-69).

Dates: 1825-1869.

Maurice C. Bond papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-24-248
Abstract Reports; mimeographed and printed material from Agricultural Economics Extension files on subjects such as cooperatives, farm management, and marketing; articles and speeches on extension work; notes, journals, photograph album, mimeographed material, correspondence, memoranda, and minutes of various conferences, workshops, and committees; reports of the Los Baños Project in the Philippines (1963); office calendars, desk and field notes, travel accounts, and diaries; logs of trips to...
Dates: 1912-1980.

McGraw records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1229
Scope and content Papers concerning the John McGraw Company which in 1878 became Thomas McGraw and Company, Rough and Dressed Lumber, Shingles, Lath and Salt, Portsmouth, Michigan. Includes financial, legal, and other papers relating to the lumber industry, including timber inspection and cutting reports, and two letter books of Charles Curtiss, McGraw's partner. Also, two series of letters to Cornelia Curtiss from Mrs. D.W. Fiske (Jennie McGraw Fiske) and Mrs. Caroline Corson, containing detailed...
Dates: 1870-1901.

Moses Quinby papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938388]
Identifier: 217
Scope and content

Diary (1831) of a trip to Kendall, Massilon, and Canton, Ohio from Quinby's home in Greene County, New York, including a description of the Zoar community near Canton. Also, legal documents and letters written to his parents, William and Hannah Quinby, and a periodical "Gleanings in Bee Culture," 1915, which includes information on Moses Quinby.



Dates: 1810-1915.

Oliver H. Moulton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6820
Abstract

Collection of diaries, family correspondence, personal papers, and memorabilia.

Dates: undated