A Journey to Florida, February 26 - March 30, 1893

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Title
A Journey to Florida, February 26 - March 30, 1893
Date
1893
Traveller
  • Shurtleff, Sarah Anne (Keegan)
Reference
A170 box 12 192v
Region
  • North America
Country
  • United States
Places
  • Florida
  • New York
  • Richmond
  • Virginia
  • South Carolina
  • Jacksonville
  • Savannah
  • St Augustine
  • Palatka
  • Indian River
  • Charleston
  • Fort Sumter
  • Washington DC
  • Georgia (USA)
Description
A journal of the Shurtleffs' journey to Florida from New York. It includes an index and many picture cards, photographs and other ephemera that have been pasted into the journal. She writes about visiting Old Fort Marion, various churches, a phosphate works, Mount Vernon, the Washington, DC Capitol and the White House, amongst other places and topics, incouding 'seeing the immense alligator'.
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