Brown, Catherine, Travel Diaries Guide to the Catherine Brown Travel Diaries MS 00232

Guide to the Catherine Brown Travel Diaries MS 00232


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Repository
Special Collections Research Center
Identification
MS 00232
Title
Catherine Brown Travel Diaries 1907
Quantity
0.5 Linear Feet
source
Between The Covers
Creator
Brown, Catherine
Language
English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Catherine Brown Travel Diaries, Special Collections Research Center, William and Mary libraries.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase. Source: Between the Covers, 112 Nicholson Road, Gloucester City, NJ 08030 www.BewtweenTheCovers.com


Content Description

Three volumes of a diary kept by Catherine Brown describing destinations and activities while traveling in Europe with her family and some friends in the summer of 1907. Postcards are interspersed throughout the diaries. Cities visited include Chamonix, Bossons Glacier, Mont Blanc, Lake Como, Geneva, Verona, Milan, Venice, Heildelburg, Nuremberg, Luzern, Zurich, Interlaken, Bern, Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Paris, Potsdam, Brussels, and Amsterdam.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Between The Covers
  • Europe -- Description and travel
  • Women travelers--Diaries

Container List

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Diary
1907 July-August English
Scope and Contents

Volume 1 of 3 of a diary kept by Catherine Brown describing destinations and activities while traveling in Europe with her family and some friends in the summer of 1907. Postcards and cards of art reproductions are interspersed throughout the diaries.

Descriptions of visits to cities in this volume include Frankfort, Weisbaden, Bonn, Cologne, Weimar, Dressden, Leipzig, Potsdam, Paris, Brussels, Anvers, Amsterdam, Volendam.

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Diary
1907 July-August English
Scope and Contents

Volume 2 of 3 of a diary kept by Catherine Brown describing destinations and activities while traveling in Europe with her family and some friends in the summer of 1907. Postcards and cards of art reproductions are interspersed throughout the diaries.

Descriptions of visits to cities in this volume include Ouchy, Bern, Zurich, Luzern, Heidleberg and Nurenburg.

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Dairy
1907 July-AugustEnglish
Scope and Contents

Volume 2 of 3 of a diary kept by Catherine Brown describing destinations and activities while traveling in Europe with her family and some friends in the summer of 1907. Postcards and cards of art reproductions are interspersed throughout the diaries.

Descriptions of visits to cities in this volume include Verona, Como, Zermatt, Venice, Stalden, Chamonix, Bossons Glacier, Mt. Blanc, Geneva, Chillon and Milan.