Travel narratives
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin Wilson Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: L146
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Benjamin WIlson Smith’s writings about the history of Warrick, Spencer, and White counties, Indiana and Harrison County, West Virginia, Manchester Academy and the postal system. Also included are his accounts of a trip from Virginia to White County in 1846 and an autobiography. Also, his scrapbook of clippings and notes on politics, his advice to students in Dearborn County, Daughters of the American Revolution applications for his family, correspondence with his...
Dates:
1858-1949
Enoch Richard Steen diary
Collection — Folder S1244
Identifier: S1244
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a 62-page, typed transcript of the diary of Enoch Richard Steen from 1865, concerning his hobbies and social activities, farm work, the end of the U.S. Civil War, and experiences in Montana around Virginia City and Helena during the gold rush era.
Dates:
1865
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Enoch Richard Steen diary
Henry E. Wahl collection
Collection
Identifier: L172
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters to Henry E. Wahl from his parents (1936–1945) and letters to his parent during World War II. The letters originate from Bloomington, Indiana, California, Hawaii, and the Pacific. Included are letters from Donald Wahl, a naval officer serving in the Pacific.Additionally, the collection contains a notebook with a diary of a trip from Evansville Indiana to Nashville, Tennessee in and accounts for a schoolteacher in Gibson County in 1866, as well as...
Dates:
1865-1945
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Henry E. Wahl collection
Henry W. Starr diary
Collection — Folder S1241
Identifier: S1241
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises 63 typed pages of the diary of Henry W. Starr, written in 1850, which details Starr's experiences travelling across country to join the Calilfornia Gold Rush. His entries include his observations of animals, terrain, camps, weather, food, and people.
Dates:
1850
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Henry W. Starr diary
Hugh R. Foss papers
Collection — Folder S482
Identifier: S0482
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed narrative from Hugh R. Foss in France on March 17, 1919 regarding his visit to the Riviera after World War I.
Dates:
1919/03/17
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Hugh R. Foss papers
Inez Harris travel diary
Collection — Folder S3054
Identifier: S3054
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a photocopied typscript entitled "Our Trip to California in September 1949" written by Inez Harris. Harris provides information about her trip out west via automobile and provides information such as locations, prices of gas, food, and hotels.
Dates:
1949
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Inez Harris travel diary
James A. Seaton, California Gold Rush articles
Collection — Folder S1797
Identifier: S1797
Scope and Contents
This collection includes copies of a newspaper’s reprint of a diary kept in 1850 by James A. Seaton traveling from Indiana to California to participate in the California Gold Rush. The newspaper only includes excerpts from the diary with minimal annotations. The folder contains 11 documents and the publications from August 1, 1942 until August 6, 1942.
Dates:
1942
James O'Hara Denny diary
Collection — Folder S0352
Identifier: S0352
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a diary from James O'Hara Denny in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois ranging in 1839 regarding travel through from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Randolph County, Illinois.
Dates:
1839
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
James O'Hara Denny diary
John H. Towner collection
Collection — Folder S1317
Identifier: S1317
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three copies of an account from John H. Towner in Indiana--including a bound photostat, loose photostats, and xeroxed pages of the preface and first chapter--regarding his trip to the California Gold Rush during 1849-1850. The last entry is about his visit to the Art Union gallery in Cincinnati and the Greek slave statue, which was on exhibit there.
Dates:
1849-1850
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
John H. Towner collection
John Prichet journals
Collection
Identifier: L130
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three hand written journals (1849-1851) of John Prichet describing his journey from Indiana to California during the Gold Rush. His journals cover his trip from Centreville, Indiana to California by steamboat on the Ohio and Missouri rivers, and overland from Independence, Missouri to California using the Truckee River route; his life in the mining camps near Yuba City and Sacramento, California; and his return trip by ship from San Francisco through Panama, to New...
Dates:
1849-1851
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
John Prichet journals
