Manuscript journal from September 1843 to April 1844, 1843-1844
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Image depicts the twenty-two states of the Swiss Confederation of 1843 or 1844, the different types of dress found among the people of these regions, and the traveling distances between those regions.
Subject (Geographic):
Switzerland --Description and travel --1800-1850, Switzerland --Ethnic relations, Switzerland --History --1830-1848, Switzerland --History --19th century, and Switzerland --Politics and government --19th century
Written on a pictorial lettersheet with a view of San Francisco in 1854 (Peters, California on Stone, No. 37), the letter tells about the city's cosmopolitan population and some of the entertainment found around the city, including a performance of Norma by Madame Bishop.
Description:
See Joseph Armstong Baird Jr.'s California's Pictorial Letter Sheets, 1849-1869, no. 239.
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel. and San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works.
Autograph diary of a tour through Germany and Italy, with a return voyage by way of Malta, Algiers and Gibraltar, taken by Trollope between September 1843 and April 1844 in the company of his friend Edward Davies. Trollope describes travel arrangements; monuments, works of art, and various tourist sights, particularly in Rome; church services attended and sermons heard; flowers and trees; shipboard activities; the quarantine of his steamer at Ryde; and the weather. He concludes his account by noting that ""I have seen quite enough to be able to value and prize the Institutions of our own country more than those I have left behind.""
Description:
40 etched, lithographed and aquatinted prints (3 hand-colored) of various subjects, including 5 of Malta. Several bills, tickets, passes and newspaper clippings pasted in, including an article on ""The Ghetto at Rome"" from Jewish Records), September 1857 (
Subject (Geographic):
Coblentz (Germany) and Ehrenbreitstein (Germany)
Subject (Topic):
Boats and boating, Coast defenses, Fortification, Tourism, Travelers, and Travelers writings, English
[Document] / 29th Congress, 1st session, Senate ; 438, Report of an expedition led by Lieutenant Abert, on the upper Arkansas and through the country of the Camanche Indians, in the fall of the year 1845., and Senate document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 29th Congress, 1st session, no. 438.
Description:
At head of caption title: 29th Congress, 1st Session, [Senate.], [438]., Caption title., Copy 2 was James W. Abert's personal copy and includes a ms. letter from John Fremont tipped in, ordering Abert to make preparations for departure from St. Louis in 1845. Copy 2 is also extra illustrated with 12 plates of watercolors of Indians attributed to James W. Abert, which were never published., and Map entitled: Map showing the route pursued by the exploring expedition to New Mexico and the southern Rocky Mountains made under the orders of Captain J.C. Fremont, U.S. Topographical Engineers and conducted by Lieut. J.W. Abert, assisted by Lieut. W.G. Peck, U.S.T.E. during the year 1845.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Geographic):
Arkansas--Discovery and exploration., Southwest, New--Discovery and exploration., and United States--Exploring expeditions.
Subject (Name):
Abert, J. W. (James William), 1820-1897., Abert, James William,--1820-1897--Autograph (copy 2), Frémont, John Charles,--1813-1890--Ms. letter (copy 2), Streeter, Thomas W.--(Thomas Winthrop),--1883-1965--Bookplate (copy 2), United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers., and United States. President (1845-1849 : Polk)
African Americans in popular culture, African Americans in the mass media, American wit and humor --Periodicals, Caricatures and cartoons--19th century, Satire --Periodicals
, and Wit and humor, Pictorial