Title:: Charlton Yarnall Travel Journal 1922

Access and use

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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Phone: (757) 221-3090
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Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

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:

Charlton Yarnall Travel Journal, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, The College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
0.50
Creator:
Yarnall, Charlton arrangement
Language:
The papers are in: English
Preferred citation:

Charlton Yarnall Travel Journal, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, The College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Bound journal, March 7- June 9, 1922, kept by Charlton Yarnall, describing his family's vacation travel from Philadelphia to Algeria, Italy, France and England. The typed journal, 88 pp., includes pictures and postcards. Family members mentioned in the journal are his wife Anna Coxe and his daughter Agnes, age 17.The family arrives in Algiers via Madeira and Spain on March 21. Yarnall describes his impressions of places visited and sights seen such as the Ancient Mosquie of Sidi-Abder-Rahmane and the rue des Chameau; Tizi-Ouzou, a providence in Algiers. He mentions Nomads and Bedouins and women of the Owed-Nails tribe. After Algiers, the family travels to Italy via Sicily, stopping in Naples, Capri and Rome, as well as Paris, France and London, England, before returning to New York on June 9, 1922.

Biographical / historical:

Charlton Yarnall was owner of three farms in Newtown Sqaure, Newtown Township, Delaware Township, Pennsylvania . He called his estate, Crum Creek Farm. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Charlton Yarnall ">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Charlton Yarnall </a>.

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 00/00/2008.

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Diaries--Male authors.
Diaries