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Rare Books
Collection of travel prints illustrating the unknown compiler's travels in Europe, Asia Minor (especially Constantinople) and North Africa. Each print is mounted on a page and has a date [presumably of the date of travel] supplied in manuscript. The majority of the album is organized largely in chronological order from April 2, 1850 to October 1850 and depict locations in France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Syria, Greece, Turkey and Asia Minor, North Africa, Egypt, Serbia and Hungary. The last 11 leaves are more haphazardly arranged, and are dated variously from 1850 to 1853.
646530
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Manuscripts
Collection of Middle English texts, comprised of Langland's Piers Plowman in the B-text with substantial readings from A and C; a defective version, subgroup B, of Mandeville's Travels; the Middle English poem Susannah; "The legend of the Three Kings" an excerpt from John of Hildesheim's Historia Trium Regum; Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; and a translation of Peter Ceffons' Epistola Luciferi ad Cleros.
mssHM 114
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This album contains images, clippings, and ephemera chiefly documenting Lawrence's early life in Oxford, England, from his birth in 1889 to about 1910. Items primarily consist of 1960s postcards and photographs depicting the local Oxford landscape and individuals and buildings related to Lawrence, as well photographs (primarily reproductions) of Lawrence as a boy and his family. The earliest photographs are a few copy prints reproduced by Duncan from the collection of Lawrence's nanny Margo Jones. There are also some postcards of London, England, and locales in Turkey and the Middle East and correspondence to Duncan about her research. Album has black covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate containing handwritten note, "Pre-War Years."
626757
Visual Materials
Street view of the Maryland Hotel at 411 East Colorado. There is an empty storefront on the ground floor at the corner. Two men stand under an umbrella next to an open manhole in the middle of the street. Automobiles drive around them and are parked on the sides of the streets.
photCL 402 (35540)
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Over 200 photographs (stereograph format) of scenes and people in numerous countries. Most are published by Underwood & Underwood, with some by Keystone View Company. Stereographs are arranged alphabetically by country. Locations: Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, Palestine, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Yugoslavia, United States, and Central and South America.
photST Underwoodk
Visual Materials
View of West Colorado facing east from Orange Grove. Flags and banners are suspended across the street. The flag in the middle has an image of a man punting a football on it.
photCL 402 (32470)