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Photograph album of outdoor recreation and actress Sarah Bernhardt visiting upstate New York

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Description: An album of snapshots of outdoor recreation around lakes in the Adirondack Mountains, New York, followed by candid photographs of the actress Sarah Bernhardt and unidentified men and women in Wanakena and Ithaca, New York. The mountain scenes depict people camping and boating at Cranberry Lake with a "Professor Herrick," and logging operations at Oswegatchie River Dam. People are mostly unidentified, but there are two photographs of Bernhardt captioned with her name. She is seen standing in winter clothes in Cayuga Heights, Ithaca, and possibly in another, picnicking in the woods. It is unclear what her connection is to the others, including a man identified as "Lin" or "L.A." and a "Mrs. Allen." They are possibly members of a theater troupe travelling with Bernhardt through upstate New York.
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Production date: approximately 1914-1916
Call number: photCL 362

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photCL 537

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photCL 71

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photCL 501

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A volume of photographs accompanied by a typescript travel narrative by Thomas Recknagel, a Cornell University undergraduate, documenting his travels by automobile and railroad in the summer of 1938. The bound volume is titled "Western Journey" and begins with snapshots taken during a train trip from Ithaca, New York, through Chicago, to San Francisco, where Recknagel met his parents and family friends to travel by car. They headed north through Oregon to British Columbia, where their trip included a cricket match in Vancouver; Victoria; a boat trip around the Gulf Islands; and a visit to the University of British Columbia, where Arthur Recknagel had taken a visiting lecturer position. The group took a return train trip through the Rocky Mountains, the Great Lakes, and across Canada to Port McNicoll, Ontario. There are two appendices of photographs from Recknagel's parents' trip in the beginning of the year, with several snapshots of Yosemite. The back of the volume also has 20 commercial photographs (3.5 x 5-inches) of Vancouver and the Fraser River area in British Columbia. Notable in the album are a series of photographs and narrative of the rescue of a man who had attempted suicide by jumping into the sea in San Francisco.

photCL 660

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Photograph album of New York City during centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration

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An album of 22 photographs of New York City street scenes and landmarks during the 1889 centennial celebration of the inauguration of President George Washington. Images include City Hall, Old Federal Hall, and Hanover Bank festooned with American flags and bunting; a naval parade on the East River; cannons in Battery Park; Central Park; and William Street. Also seen is the temporary, wooden Washington Arch in Washington Square, erected in 1889 with private funds to commemorate Washington's inauguration centennial. It was replaced with a permanent marble structure designed by Stanford White in 1892. The album has the bookplate of J. Foster Flagg, and handwritten captions. The photographs are not credited.

photCL 225

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Motor trip from New York to California photograph album

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A photograph album covering an automobile trip from New York to California during the summer of 1921. Also: 22 loose photographs, two postcards, and a blank sheet of stationery from "Hotel Grant," Duchesne, Utah.

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Photograph album of outdoor recreation and actress Sarah Bernhardt visiting upstate New York

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