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Travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

LeRoy L. Shutes collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1185
Scope and Contents This collection contains a typewritten copy of "Diary - Eight Hundred Miles -Twenty Six Days - Covered Wagon - 1862 - Wyandott County, Ohio - Carroll County, Iowa" by Mary Alice Shutes made and copyrighted in 1967 from a copy created by Julia Curtis, Mary Alice Shutes Mallory's daughter, under the supervision of her mother. Mary Alice Shutes Mallory kept the diary, along with her stepmother, Ann, while the family traveled from Ohio to Iowa in 1862. The collection also includes copies of "Stack...
Dates: 1967-1971

Maidlow diary

 Collection — Folder S0920
Identifier: S0920
Scope and Contents This collection includes one diary and one letter from Maidlow in ranging from 1862 regarding Maidlow's travels.Maidlow's diary contains thoughts about things in life, mostly when he traveled all over the place. Contains small entries and lists about what he sees each day. There also includes a small letter where he writes about growing old and it seems to be written in the form of a poem, talking about when a person dies, they are with the Lord where "the eyes now dim shall open to...
Dates: 1862-1863

Mary Elizabeth Moody collection

 Collection
Identifier: L713
Scope and Contents This collection includes 6 photograph albums and 3 scrapbooks, containing photographs, papers, pamphlets, postcards, souvenirs, currency, and ephemera, created by Betty Goodale Moody in Indiana, Florida, around the United States, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt, ranging from circa 1936 to 2015, regarding her personal and family life, friends, and travels within the United States and the Middle East. There are also miscellaneous photographs whose subjects were identified by Moody and her...
Dates: circa 1936-2015

Miriam Hazzard letter

 Collection — Folder S622
Identifier: S0622
Scope and Contents This collection contains a 6-page letter from Miriam Hazzard to family and friends in Indiana from Claquato, Lewis County, Washington Territory on June 20, 1882. Her letter relates the places she and her family traveled through during their train trip out west in April, 1882. She mentions several times the different snow sheds that the train passed through and that the family suffered "deathly illness" aboard ship traveling from San Fransico, California to Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Hazzard also...
Dates: 1882

Mrs. Demarchus C. Brown collection

 Collection — Folder S2879
Identifier: S2879
Scope and Contents This collection contains one undated promotional brochure entitled “Literature and Travel Talks,” inviting bookings of talks “suitable for Clubs, Classes or Schools.” The listing of available topics is organized under three categories: art and travel talks, masters of world literature, and miscellaneous subjects. Handwritten notes seem to pertain to assorted topics, e.g. Spain, Pillars of Hercules, American drama.
Dates: undated

Nellie Belles MacMillan collection

 Collection — Folder S008
Identifier: S0008
Scope and Contents This collection contains copies of letters written by Nellie Belles Hill MacMillan to her father, Dr. J. T. Belles, which were published in a local Spencer, Indiana newspaper between 1877 and 1885. In her letters, MacMillan describers her travels throughout Europe and Australia. She also discusses her wedding and honeymoon plans. This collection also contains the obituaries of Dan and Charles Glacier, as well as L.M. Anderson.
Dates: 1887-1885

Robert Bowne Haines collection

 Collection — Folder S565
Identifier: S0565
Scope and Contents This collection includes a bound volume of typed transcriptions for 10 letters, dating from May 11, 1838 to June 11, 1849. The letters document a trip of exploration from author, Robert Bowne Haines, made with David Dale owen. Locations and sites mentioned in the letters are Blue Earth River; Waraja River; Little Rock River; Terre Blanche, and the Mississippi River; Stillwater Lake and St. Croix, near Galena and at Red Rock; Chippewa River, Mountain Island, and Prairie de Chien; Pine Creek,...
Dates: 1838-1849

Saint Mother Theodore Guerin collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3320
Scope and Contents This collection contains items collected by Ron and Diane Sharp on their trip to Rome, Italy to attend the canonization ceremony of Mother Theodore Guerin on October 15, 2006. The collection includes Saint Mary-of-the Woods documents regarding Saint Mother Theodore; a tour itinerary; hotel information; dinner menus for members of the tour group; and programs from the Saturday evening vigil (October 14, 2006) and the Mass of Thanksgiving (October 16, 2006) in Rome. The collection also includes...
Dates: 2006-2007

S.G. Eyerly papers

 Collection — Folder S448
Identifier: S0448
Scope and Contents This collection includes an autographed, signed letter from S.G. Eyerly in Crawford County, Illinois on 1844/07/09 regarding travel conditions from Terre Haute to Sullivan, Indiana.
Dates: 1844/07/04

Shock family scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1179
Scope and Contents This collection contains pages from a scrapbook kept by the Shock family of Henry County, Indiana ranging from 1921 to circa 1970s. The scrapbook pages include photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, and mementos of trips that Lorene Shock's mother, Stella Pierce, collected while traveling during the 1920s. She and a group of friends traveled to a number of cities and historic sites including Washington D.C., New York City, Gettysburg, Philadelphia, and several communities in Indiana. The...
Dates: 1921- circa 1970