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Colombia -- Description and travel.

 Subject
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Mortier Franklin Barrus papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-29-505
Scope and content Consists of papers concerning Barrus's involvement in plant pathology research and extension work, including press releases, notes, field notes, lecture and seminar notes, reports, correspondence, recommendations, drafts and reprints, research materials, and correspondence with county agents. Also, personal notebooks which detail travel expenses, have garden records, expenses of home ownership and potato spraying records; material concerning Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia and...
Dates: 1908-1957.

Robert R. Nathan papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4410
Abstract

Typescript travel diaries describing Nathan's consulting work in countries including Afghanistan, Burma, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Israel, Korea, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Vietnam.

Dates: 1943-1975.

Trautwine family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 760
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, clippings, photographs, and other material relating largely to the engineering interests of John Cresson Trautwine, Sr., II, and III.

Dates: 1834-1947.