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Egypt -- Description and travel.

 Subject
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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Bessie C. Stern and Jeanette Amalie Stern letters : from Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Leaming Forman

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Bunnell family papers

Cooper and Ward family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065200176]
Identifier: 2196
Scope and content

Personal letters to members of the Ward and Cooper families, mostly about family matters, but also containing some comments on national politics, travels in India and Egypt, a visit to a slave pen in St. Louis (1861), and the extensive public interest in education in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (1820); also, miscellaneous deeds and indentures (1792-1846) pertaining to land in Connecticut, and Herkimer County, New York.

Dates: 1784-1884.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cooper and Ward family papers

Eugene Plumb Andrews papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-6-912
Abstract

Correspondence, travel diaries, official documents, and photographs. Letters from Andrews to his family from Italy, Greece, Crete, and Egypt describing the progress of his archaeological work, personal matters, travels, and activities.

Dates: 1895-1956.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Eugene Plumb Andrews papers

Gillette family papers

 Collection — Mapcase item 1
Identifier: 4456
Abstract

Letters and scrapbooks documenting the lives of Edwin S. and Flora Spence Gillette.

Dates: 1876-1922.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Gillette family papers

Lewis Leaming Forman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-9-772
Scope and content Student notes, notes for lectures on ancient history, classical literature, Greek art, Greek and Latin vocabulary and usage, the New Testament, philosophy, and other subjects; diary and expense book kept during a visit to Greece (1900-1901), photographs, letters, and clippings. Notebooks of diary entries and memoranda kept (1915-1916) during trips to Sicily, Tunis, Egypt, and Greece. Notes for addresses made at the organizing meeting of the American Rights Committee, and before the Cornell...
Dates: 1879-1932.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Lewis Leaming Forman papers

McGraw family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2355
Abstract Business and family correspondence, relating to lumbering interests near Canadea, New York; McGraw family genealogy; diaries and accounts of travels in France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Egypt; Jennie McGraw Fiske diaries refer to travels in England and on the Continent, and to Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and New York. Other subjects include Cornell University faculty members, the settlement of the estate of John McGraw, and a memorial to McGraw by the Cornell University Board of...
Dates: 1854-1956.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / McGraw family papers

Travel literature and photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1879
Scope and content

Brochures, and other printed miscellany relating to travel in France, Italy, Egypt, upstate New York, and other places, with reference to World's Fairs, railroads, and other topics. Includes photograph album, Egypt, c. 1900.

Dates: undated.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Travel literature and photographs

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