Travel scrapbook: 'Round the World'
- Travel Writing, Spectacle & World History
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- Title
- Travel scrapbook: 'Round the World'
- Date
- 1951-1952
- Traveller
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- Cannon family
- Reference
- MC 553, 8.3-8.4
- Region
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- Australasia
- Europe
- Middle East
- North America
- South Asia
- South-East Asia
- Country
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- Australia
- Fiji
- France
- India
- Indonesia
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- New Zealand
- Pakistan
- Palestine (Israel)
- Turkey
- United States
- Places
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- Agra
- Agra Fort
- Auckland
- Avalon
- Beirut
- Bethany
- Bethlehem
- Blue Mountains
- Bombay (Mumbai)
- Brisbane
- Calcutta
- Canberra
- Constantinople
- Damascus Gate
- Darjeeling
- Dead Sea
- Delhi
- Fox Glacier
- Franz Josef Glacier
- Gethsemane
- Hawaii
- Heron Island
- Honolulu
- Jaipur
- Jakarta
- Jenolan Caves
- Jericho
- Jerusalem
- Kangchenjunga
- Katoomba
- Melbourne
- Milford Sound
- Mona Vale
- Mount Taranaki
- Nazareth
- New Plymouth
- New South Wales
- Palm Beach
- Paris
- Pune
- Queensland
- River Jordan
- Sea of Galilee
- South Island
- Sydney
- Taj Mahal
- Vita Levu
- Warriewood
- Westland National Park
- Description
- Contains a variety of visual material and ephemera relating to the Cannon family's world trip. Photographs, postcards, paintings, drawings, clippings and articles make up the scrapbook. Included are photographs of famous tourist destinations, the landscape and local inhabitants. In India, for example, photographs are included of schools, temples, palaces, a zoo, and a botanical garden. In Jerusalem there are photographs of tombs and chapels that were visited. A published pamphlet of photographs of temples in Jerusalem is included in the scrapbook, as is a article entitled 'A Brief Guide to Jerusalem' (1950).
- Library / Archive
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- © The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University