World Tour Photograph Album, 1907-1908

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Title:: World Tour Photograph Album,
Dates:: 1907-1908
Extent:: .2 linear feet (1 half-size document box)
Language:: English.
Preferred citation:: World Tour Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 79. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Scope and content:: Photograph album containing 458 black/white snapshots, most with captions, of a Nov. 1907 - June 1908 world tour covering 37,000 miles on 16 steamers, by an unknown American woman. Contains images from Gibraltar, Spain (Ronda), France (Marseilles), Egypt (Port Said, Cairo, Pyramids, Heliopolis, the Nile River, Karnak, Thebes, Suez Canal) Ceylong (Colombo, Kandy), India (Trichinopoly, Madras, Bombay, Mount Abu, Pushkar, Udaipur, Chitorgarh, Jaipur, Ambir, Delhi, Agra - Taj Mahal, Lucknow, Benares, Calcutta, Darjeeling), Burma (Rangoon), Java (Batavia), Singapore, Philippines (Manila), Hong Kong, China (Canton, Yangtze River, Hankow, Peking, Great Wall, Mongolia, Ming Tombs), Japan (Nagasaki, Kobe, Kyoto, Tokyo, Nikko, Kamakura, Yokohama), Hawaii (Honolulu), and San Francisco Bay. Includes many images of street scenes, waterfronts, palaces, temples, and other buildings, processions and festivals, American missions, and local inhabitants (many of women and children).
Acquisition information:: Purchase, 2003.
Physical location:: Del Sur

Collection Guide Author:: Processed by D. Tambo
Date Prepared:: © 2003
Date Encoded:: Machine-readable finding aid in EAD v. 1.0 derived from MS Word 2000 file by David C. Gartrell. Date of source: 24 September 2003 .

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Restrictions:: None.
Terms of access:: Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:: World Tour Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 79. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:: UC Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections

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Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US