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Im fluge durch Amerika

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Description: The manuscript is divided in 2 parts. The first part (82 pp.) details Eck's journey from Düsseldorf to Chicago by way of Hamburg, Southampton, New York, Niagara Falls, West Point, Hudson, Philadelphia, Altoona, Johnstown, and Pittsburgh. The second part (100 pp.) contains the description of Eck's homeward journey from Chicago to Düsseldorf and includes visits to Omaha, Denver, the Rocky Mountains, Manitou Springs, Salt Lake City, the Sierra Nevada, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, Pasadena, San Gabriel, Los Angeles, Yuma, Tucson, El Paso, San Antonio, New Orleans, Tampa, Key West, Havana, New York, and Hamburg. Details of life aboard the ship, the sights of the "neuen Welt," gold digging in Colorado, Mormons and much more are included. All places visited are extensively reported on and contain descriptions of the cultivation, landscapes and vegetation, the native population, geology, culture, and religion. In German.
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Production date: 1890.
Call number: mssHM 82517
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My Journey from San Francisco to Liverpool 1872 L.F

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The first 32 pages of the diary relate to the overland part of the journey as the author, probably a young woman, and her mother leave San Francisco to travel to New York by train. The author comments upon her stays in Ogden, Omaha, and Chicago, and her first views of Niagara Falls. The last 10 pages concern their ocean voyage to England. Throughout the entire journey, the author relates detailed stories of her travel companions and their experiences. The initials "L. F." are stamped on the cover and may be the author's initials

mssHM 63952

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Amerika gasshukoku no daitokai

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Souvenir booklet published for Japanese tourists in the United States in the 1910s. Highlights several tourist destinations and prominent architectural features of major cities such as Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles. Also depicts several landmarks such as Niagra Falls, the Liberty Bell, George Washington's tomb and the Masrshall Field building in Chicago.

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Travel Diary of Sir William Robert Clayton recounting his trip to America

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Sir William Clayton's journal details his 1871-1872 tour of the United States and parts of Central America. After crossing the Atlantic aboard the steamship Abyssinia, Clayton and his travelling companion arrive in New York at the end of October 1871. A brief stay in New York is followed by a train journey to Niagara Falls and thence to Chicago by way of Buffalo and Pittsburgh. After a brief description of the fire ravaged city, the journey continues on to Omaha. From Omaha, the train journey continues to Salt Lake City, where the travelers stay at the Townsend House. Several pages are devoted to Salt Lake, including a description of services at the Tabernacle. Next, Clayton departs via Pullman car to San Francisco, where he and his companion arrive in November 1871. Their stay in San Francisco includes visits to Cliff House, "China Town" and other sites, plus a trip to the New Almaden quicksilver mines near San Jose. Clayton leaves California by ship to return to New York via Panama. In addition to an account of Panama, Clayton describes visits to Jamaica, Mazatlan, Guatemala, Louisville, and New Orleans. Clayton returns to England in March of 1872. Clayton is an avid observer of "Americans" and throughout the journey describes, in great detail, his encounters with said individuals.

mssHM 70258

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A.F. Tripp notes of an excursion to California in the winter and spring of 1893

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This typewritten account details an excursion coordinated by Raymond & Whitcomb Inc. to California by train from Feb. 17-April 21. The journey began in Buffalo, NY, where Mr. Tripp, his wife and several of their friends boarded the train for their trip west. The train traveled to California via Chicago, Kansas City, Santa Fe, Flagstaff, and San Bernardino before arriving in Pasadena, CA. They visited Pasadena, Altadena, the San Gabriel Mission, downtown Los Angeles, Redondo Beach, Riverside, and San Diego before heading north. They visited Santa Barbara, Monterey & 17 mile drive, and in the San Francisco Bay Area saw Chinatown, the Lick Observatory and the U.S. Mint. On their return trip eastward, they traveled through Sacramento and Salt Lake City before stopping for visits at the Royal Gorge and Garden of the Gods in Colorado en route to Chicago and Buffalo, NY

mssHM 60314

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John R. Robinson diary

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This diary, which is a bound typed transcript, was kept by John R. Robinson while traveling from New York City to Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico in 1861; it also includes his return trip through California and across the Midwest to his home in Ohio. Robinson was going to Mexico for Belden & Stearns, a corporation in New York who was interested in buying several mines in Batopilas. While on the journey he passed through several cities including Austin, TX; Cusihuiríachic, El Fuerte, Mazatlán, and San Blas, Mexico; San Francisco and Sacramento, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; and Omaha, NE. The diary gives a day-by-day account of his trip. Robinson details the people, scenery and hardships he and his group encountered on their trek. He also gives details regarding the process of surveying and purchasing mines, including the costs involved. The last twenty-eight pages of the diary were written on a journey from Mexico to New York City in 1873, while Robinson was returning to the United States with a load of silver.

mssHM 62476

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Journey of an overland trip from Missouri to California

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This volume is Gorgas' diary of his journey from St. Joseph, Missouri to Placerville, CA, and his return trip to New York via the Panama Canal as part of the California Gold Rush of the mid-19th century. Much of the early entries are concerned with weather conditions and landscape and route details. Gorgas and his party finally reach Placerville on July 26, the ninetieth day of their journey, and begin digging for gold outside Sacramento in August. On February 1, 1851, Gorgas boarded a ship, the Olive Branch, bound for New York by way of the Panama Canal, intending to return home to his much-missed family. He lands at Jamaica on April 1, and arrives at New York on April 8. Dated 1850, April 28 through 1851, April 8. Notes include price charts and signatures of people Gorgas may have met during his travels. Includes newspaper clipping with picture of Placerville, CA, circa 1850, and a four-page handwritten timeline of Gorgas' journey (not in his hand).

mssHM 651

Im fluge durch Amerika

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