Catherine Brown Travel Diaries

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Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Catherine Brown Travel Diaries, Special Collections Research Center, William and Mary libraries.

Summary

Extent:
0.5 Linear Feet
Creator:
Between The Covers and Brown, Catherine
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Catherine Brown Travel Diaries, Special Collections Research Center, William and Mary libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Three volumes of a diary kept by Catherine Brown describing destinations and activities while traveling in Europe with her family and some friends in the summer of 1907. Postcards are interspersed throughout the diaries. Cities visited include Chamonix, Bossons Glacier, Mont Blanc, Lake Como, Geneva, Verona, Milan, Venice, Heildelburg, Nuremberg, Luzern, Zurich, Interlaken, Bern, Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Paris, Potsdam, Brussels, and Amsterdam.

Volume 1 of 3 of a diary kept by Catherine Brown describing destinations and activities while traveling in Europe with her family and some friends in the summer of 1907. Postcards and cards of art reproductions are interspersed throughout the diaries.

Descriptions of visits to cities in this volume include Frankfort, Weisbaden, Bonn, Cologne, Weimar, Dressden, Leipzig, Potsdam, Paris, Brussels, Anvers, Amsterdam, Volendam.

Volume 2 of 3 of a diary kept by Catherine Brown describing destinations and activities while traveling in Europe with her family and some friends in the summer of 1907. Postcards and cards of art reproductions are interspersed throughout the diaries.

Descriptions of visits to cities in this volume include Ouchy, Bern, Zurich, Luzern, Heidleberg and Nurenburg.

Volume 2 of 3 of a diary kept by Catherine Brown describing destinations and activities while traveling in Europe with her family and some friends in the summer of 1907. Postcards and cards of art reproductions are interspersed throughout the diaries.

Descriptions of visits to cities in this volume include Verona, Como, Zermatt, Venice, Stalden, Chamonix, Bossons Glacier, Mt. Blanc, Geneva, Chillon and Milan.

Acquisition information:
Purchase. Source: Between the Covers, 112 Nicholson Road, Gloucester City, NJ 08030 www.BewtweenTheCovers.com
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard