World Tour Photograph Album, 1907-1908

Summary

Extent:

.2 linear feet (1 half-size document box)

Language:

English.

Background

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

Location of this collection:

UC Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections

UC Santa Barbara Library

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US

Contact:

(805) 893-3062

special@library.ucsb.edu

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