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Europe -- Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Alston and Glenn family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1262
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers from the Alston and Glenn families of Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. These families were joined by marriage when Jack Glenn married Anne Amanda Alston in 1935. The Alston family papers include correspondence and legal documents pertaining to several generations of Alstons. Correspondence features discussions regarding finances, land plot purchases, education, historical society applications, and legal documents such as wills and estate planning. Also...
Dates: 1612-2017, undated; Majority of material found in 1900-1975

Eleanor Adair Bull postcard

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS777f
Scope and Content

The collection contains one postcard sent by Ellen Bull to her babysitter Anne Beaudry. She sent the postcard before boarding a connecting flight from New York to Paris in May.

Dates: 1962

Harriet Elizabeth Brown scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS317
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of Harriet Elizabeth Brown's family and friends horseback riding, swimming, playing tennis, and shooting rifles. Also included are photographs of a ship voyage to Panama.

Dates: 1900-1910

L. A. Taylor travel diary

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS344f
Scope and Content

Travel diary of L. A. Taylor of East Point, Georgia, written during his trip to Europe in 1839-1840.

Dates: 1839-1840

Mason I. Lowance photograph collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS325
Scope and Content

This collection contains images from the 1958 Harvest Ball at the Piedmont Driving Ball and is mostly of couples as they enter into the ballroom. Also included are slides from the 1962 Atlanta Art Association trip, in which 106 of the passengers were Atlanta art patrons who died in the crash as the plane was taking off. Also includes a slide of the front cover of the Atlanta Constitution for June 4, 1962.

Dates: 1958-1962

Matt Jorgenson sketches

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS194f
Scope and Content

This collection contains sketches of scenes in European cities by Atlanta architect Matt Jorgenson.

Dates: 1966-1973, undated

Mercy Van Vlack travel diary

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS888f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a diary used by Mercy Van Vlack to document missionary trips she took with her husband. She wrote about travel conditions and described what they saw in each city they passed through, recounting in particular detail major cities such as London, Paris, Constantinople, and Port Said. The diary contains a note claiming that it may be a transcription and/or an abridgement of an unknown original.

Dates: 1911-1916, undated

Robert E. Campbell papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1237
Scope and Contents The Robert E. Campbell papers consist of military documents, travel articles about Europe, family papers, publications, National Bank of Georgia documents, newspaper articles, and copies of the Georgia State University newspaper Georgia State Signal. Newspapers document the women's suffrage movement, John F. Kennedy's assassination, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death, the first moon landing, and the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks. Records from...
Dates: 1915-2005, undated

Rosalie Howell papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS119
Scope and Content The bulk of the materials in the Rosalie Howell papers document Howell's career as a Red Cross nurse during World War I and her subsequent world travel. Items include a scrapbook; correspondence with former patients; official Red Cross documents; clippings concerning her receipt of the Croix de Guerre from the French government; and travel books, postcards, and ephemera (primarily from the United Kingdom). The collection has material about, or created by, other members of the Howell family;...
Dates: 1880-1970, undated