Bell left from San Francisco, California, to Vancouver, Canada. He then visited tourist sites in Hawaii, Japan, China, the Soviet Union, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, England, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, before returning to the United States via New York. His narrative details his impressions of the different locales, including a description of travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the Soviet Union. The volume also includes material related to a political rally of the British Union of Fascists in October 1934. Snapshot photographs throughout the volume depict sites and street scenes along his journey. and Scrapbook that documents a trip around the world by Lynn Morley Bell, May-November 1934. The volume includes narrative about the trip, as well as circa 130 mounted photographic prints, circa 145 newspaper clippings and printed items, and 15 booklets and pamphlets tipped in or laid in. Hotel stickers and travel decals, mostly from Japan and the Soviet Union, cover the boards of the volume, while the rear pastedown includes 11 photographs of United States consulates or legations visited by Bell.
Description:
Lynn Morley Bell (1913-1997) was born in Dinuba, California. He was the son of Geoffrey Bell (1889-1961) and Hazel Winderdale Franklin Bell (1889-1957), and grew up in Ukiah, California. In 1938, he graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, and then worked as a salesman. In June 1939, he married Julia Powell (1916-1996), and they lived in Palo Alto, California. and Purchased from Marc Selvaggio Bookseller on the Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Memorial Fund, 2009.
Subject (Geographic):
Asia--Description and travel, Europe--Description and travel, and Soviet Union--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Bell, Lynn Morley, 1913-1997, British Union of Fascists, and Velikai︠a︡ Sibirskai︠a︡ magistralʹ
Scrapbook with poster stamps and decals that advertise companies and expositions chiefly in the American West, circa 1915. Companies represented in the scrapbook include American-Hawaiian Steamship Company; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company; F A O Schwarz; Great Northern Railway Company (related to the See America First campaign for Glacier National Park); Volland Poster Stamp Co.; and W.P. Fuller & Co. There are also stamps and decals for expositions including the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon, 1905; the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, 1915; and the Panama-California Exposition (later known as the Panama-California International Exposition) in San Diego, California, 1915-1917.
Description:
Alfred Edward Heller (born 1929) is a collector, investor, and author. He wrote World's Fairs and the End of Progress (1999) and was the publisher and editor of the quarterly magazine World's Fair from 1981 to 1995., Purchased from the William Reese Co. on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2005., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Glacier National Park (Mont.) and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, F A O Schwarz (Firm), Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.), Heller, Alfred E., Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition--(1905 : Portland, Or.), Panama-California Exposition--(1915 : San Diego, Calif.), Panama-California International Exposition--(1916 :--San Diego, Calif.), Panama-Pacific International Exposition--(1915 : San Francisco, Calif.), Volland Poster Stamp Co., and W.P. Fuller & Co.