The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) and the award-winning publisher Adam Matthew Digital have partnered to offer digital access to 77 archival collections, such as "Leisure, Travel, and Mass Culture" and "Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History." These are accessible to the UF community. If you are not on campus, log via the VPN to have access to the collections.
This resource presents a multi-national journey through well-known, little-known and far-flung destinations unlocked for the average traveller between 1850 and the 1980s. Guidebooks and brochures, periodicals, travel agency correspondence, photographs and personal travel journals provide unique insight into the expansion, accessibility and affordability of tourism for the masses and the evolution of some of the most successful travel agencies in the world.
This resource brings together hundreds of accounts by women of their travels across the globe from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. Students and researchers will find sources covering a variety of topics including; architecture; art; the British Empire; climate; customs; exploration; family life; housing; industry; language; monuments; mountains; natural history; politics and diplomacy; race; religion; science; shopping; war.
A wide variety of forms of travel writing are included, ranging from unique manuscripts, diaries and correspondence to drawings, guidebooks and photographs. The resource includes a slideshow with hundreds of items of visual material, including postcards, sketches and photographs.
A broad time period is covered. The earliest document is a letter from Lucretia Goddard to her cousin describing the wedding of Mehetable May Dawes to Samuel Goddard, 30 September 1818. After getting married, the Goddards went to England for nine years initially living in Liverpool and then in Manchester. This source touches on the diverse topics of marriage, clothing, family life, cities, monuments, class, slavery, festivals, climate, households, work, industry, customs, agriculture, money and violence. The latest documents are Ida Pruitt’s notes and correspondence from the early 1970s concerning visits to China.
The sources can also be used to examine the variety of motivations for travel including tourism, work, exploration, missionary work and pilgrimages. They also show the diverse range of women who travelled. Documents range from the first trip of a young student abroad to the spiritual journey of a retired woman seeking enlightenment.
Places visited include: USA and Canada; China, Japan and the Philippines; Europe (very well documented); Russia; Africa; and Australia.
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