Autograph letter signed by Alvan S. Southworth, travel writer, journalist, and former secretary of the American Geographical Society, to Philadelphia printers and publishers Sherman &..... Read More about 1884 Autograph Letter Signed by Alvan S. Southworth, former Secretary to the American...
Official guide book to the exhibitions and grounds of the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition, the first official World’s Fair to be held the United States..... Read More about Visitors’ Guide to the Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphia. May 10th to November 10th, 1876....
Stearns was a Massachusetts abolitionist who spent six years in “Bleeding Kansas.” After the war he became a teacher, missionary, and plantation owner in Columbia..... Read More about The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent...
Broadside advertising regular performances of African American “Plantation Spirituals” at South Carolina’s Cypress Gardens and sung “...entirely by local colored people connected with Dean Hall..... Read More about Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South...
Lengthy and peculiar letter by a woman traveler, E.W. Carpenter, written to her nephew and niece in Lebanon Springs, New York, recounting a 7,000-mile journey..... Read More about 1890 Woman’s Autograph Letter Signed describing Her Being “Poisoned” and Fearful of Being...
Pierce Butler was a Georgia-born Philadelphian whose marriage to British actress Fanny Kemble was in discord as his ownership of Southern slaves clashed with her..... Read More about Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
Brief undated autograph letter signed sent to a literary editor by British writer and traveler, James Augustus St. John (1795–1875). St. John writes to the..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed by James Augustus St. John (1795–1875), British Writer and Traveler to...
Observations on American slavery by a British traveler in the South, first published in London in 1857. “[Stirling] gave a critical and sometimes biased picture..... Read More about Letters from the Slave States
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C. 1950s hotel guest room guide book to Pittsburgh attractions issued by the Hotel William Penn, part of the “Statler” chain of luxury hotels. The..... Read More about The Spotlight. Hotel William Penn. [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Illustrated guidebook to the African nation of Ghana, prepared for the expatriate, English-speaking community there. Includes a shopping guide to the capital and largest city..... Read More about Ghana Welcomes You
First hand reports of travels in the Caribbean and the effects of the abolition of slavery there by authors Rev. James A. Thome and J...... Read More about Emancipation in the West Indies. A Six Months’ Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the...
Rare title ostensibly offering travelers’ advice on visiting and organized coach itineraries of New York City, but whose main purpose was to promote performances of..... Read More about New York in Ten Tours, Including Hoyt’s A Trip to Chinatown
From the Introduction: “This work is intended to reveal what the British traveller saw in America during the period 1836-1860 and to analyze his viewpoint..... Read More about The British Traveller In America, 1836-1860
Full Howes: “As Consulting Engineer for the Union Pacific Railroad, Silas Seymour describes his trip with Jessie Williams, Government Director, and Gen. Dodge, in 1866..... Read More about Incidents of a trip through the Great Platte Valley to the Rocky Mountains and Laramie Plains,...
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C.1930s travel brochure for Taos, New Mexico issued by The Don Fernando Hotel, named for late 17th and early 18th century Spanish Conquistador, Don Fernando..... Read More about TAOS—-worth a trip across a continent! The Don Fernando Hotel. Taos, New Mexico. [cover title
1915 Photographic souvenir of an autobus tour of Colorado Springs and Manitou. The folding photo brochure contains two mounted photographs, one depicting a sweeping roadside..... Read More about Crystal Park Auto Trip. Colorado Springs and Manitou
Clark, New South (t.p. illustrated) II:6 — “[Archer] seemed unable to divest himself of certain English attitudes. His position on race is indicated by his..... Read More about Through Afro-America. An English Reading of the Race Problem
Anglo-Irish war correspondent’s published diary of his visit to the United States during the first year of the American Civil War; issued with map showing..... Read More about My Diary North and South
