![3732744] Federal Hi-Way Silent-Nite Homes. [cover title]. Anon](/images/noimage-req.png)
Motorist’s pocket, state-by-state directory of restaurants, hotels, and roadside motor courts plus select private homes open to tourists. The guide was sponsored by a trade..... Read More about Federal Hi-Way Silent-Nite Homes. [cover title
Widely-known as a prominent landscape architect, and the designer of New York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted also wrote three books on his impressions of..... Read More about A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy
![3731921] Grand Hôtel National, Lucerne, Propr: Segesser Frères & Cie. Segesser Frères, Cie](/pictures/thumb/3731921_1.jpg?v=1654112318)
Rare. The Grand Hôtel National (now the Grand Hotel National Luzern) opened in Lucerne in 1870 under the proprietorship of Swiss hoteliers, Segesser Frères &..... Read More about Grand Hôtel National, Lucerne, Propr: Segesser Frères & Cie
![3731502] [Presentation Copy] Genealogy from Adam to Christ, with the Genealogy Genealogy of Adam...](/pictures/thumb/3731502_1.jpg?v=1645196910)
Heinecke’s book was first published in 1869 and then expanded 12 years later, with this edition. Contrary to its title, Heinecke’s “brief account” of his..... Read More about Presentation Copy] Genealogy from Adam to Christ, with the Genealogy Genealogy of Adam Heineck...
![3730598] A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy. Frederick Law...](/pictures/thumb/3730598_1.jpg?v=1638338782)
This copy bears the dual New York and London imprints, but has “Miller & Company” stamped at the foot of the spine. (Miller & Holman..... Read More about A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy
![3730850] Grant’s Sketch of Calabar. Donald G. Simmons, James Grant](/pictures/thumb/3730850_1.jpg?v=1632596704)
A mid-20th c. printing of a 19th century description of Calabar, West Africa by James Grant, Liverpool-based commercial and slave trader, written during one of..... Read More about Grant’s Sketch of Calabar
![3730634] [1838 ALS by James Silk Buckingham, British Journalist, Parliamentarian, and Traveler in...](/pictures/thumb/3730634_1.jpg?v=1624502602)
Letter written during the American travels of British journalist James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855), discussing an article to be published in the Albany Evening Journal, a...... Read More about 1838 ALS by James Silk Buckingham, British Journalist, Parliamentarian, and Traveler in America
![3729333] Letters from the Slave States. James Stirling, 1805–1883](/pictures/thumb/3729333_1.jpg?v=1593463458)
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
![3729250] Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of...](/pictures/thumb/3729250_1.jpg?v=1586277012)
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...
![3728454] New York in Ten Tours, Including Hoyt’s A Trip to Chinatown. Jno. Henry Martin, H....](/pictures/thumb/3728454_1.jpg?v=1614193744)
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
![3728043] Ghana Welcomes You. Janice Nesbitt](/pictures/thumb/3728043_1.jpg?v=1654661193)
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
![3727610] TAOS—-worth a trip across a continent! The Don Fernando Hotel. Taos, New Mexico....](/pictures/thumb/3727610_1.jpg?v=1544633422)
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
![3728189] Through Afro-America. An English Reading of the Race Problem. William Archer](/pictures/thumb/3728189_1.jpg?v=1548871660)
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
![3728175] Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839. Frances Anne Kemble](/pictures/thumb/3728175_1.jpg?v=1657145107)
Pierce Butler was a Georgia-born Philadelphian whose marriage to British actress Fanny Kemble was in discord as his ownership of enslaved African Americans clashed with..... Read More about Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
![3727747] Crystal Park Auto Trip. Colorado Springs and Manitou. Unkwn](/pictures/thumb/3727747_1.jpg?v=1591818994)
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
![3726073] 1884 Autograph Letter Signed by Alvan S. Southworth, former Secretary to the American...](/pictures/thumb/3726073_1.jpg?v=1534362332)
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...
