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Bora-Bora and Samoa

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Description: Album is bound in black textured material. The title "Bora-Bora and Samoa," is embossed in gold lettering in the center of cover. Images are of the sights, indigenous people, and Europeans that the Londons met while traveling through Oceania on the Snark. There are also several postcards and souvenir photographs.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1889-1908
Call number: JLP 500
Creator: London, Jack (1876-1916)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The nucleus of the collection was purchased by Henry Huntington from Charmian London in 1925. Additional groups of material were acquired by both gift and purchase from Mrs. London and later from literary executors Irving Shepard and I. Milo Shepard over many years. Further material has been acquired from other sources; the provenance of these items is noted on the individual folders.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; NOT AVAILABLE: Albums 1-92 and Large albums 1-30: Do not circulate. Use digital reproductions in the Huntington Digital Library.; RESTRICTED: Boxes 283, 284, 287, 433, 591, 592, 594, 624 and Volumes 1-30: Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.; RESTRICTED: Boxes 595, 596, 623: housed in cold storage; extended retrieval and delivery time required.
Associated people: London, Charmian.; Shepard, Eliza London.
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