Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
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Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History is a collection of digitized manuscripts, diaries, travel journals, correspondence, photographs, postcards, and ephemera created by American women travelers in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The collection also includes maps, a slideshow gallery of images from the collection, essays, finding aids to the original physical collections, and a chronology. The original materials are held by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
Some of the topics covered include:
- Emigration and daily life
- Missionary work
- World War I
- World War II
- Boxer War in China
- Frontier Life in America
- Personal enlightenment through travel
- Education and finishing school
- Sightseeing, holidays, and tourism
- Customs, culture and leisure
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Date Coverage
- 1818 – 1970s
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