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British transportation ephemera collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 83
Abstract:
The collection comprises British printed transportation ephemera, including maps, guides, and promotional material.
Dates:
1912-2019
James Bruce archive
Collection
Call Number: MSS 68
Scope and Contents:
The archive comprises original manuscript material concerning the travels of James Bruce of Kinnaird in North Africa and Ethiopia, from 1762 to 1774. Bruce (1730-1794) was originally posted as British consul-general at Algiers, though his diplomatic service concluded in 1765. Over the next 10 years, Bruce traveled in North Africa to document the antiquities, flora, and fauna of the region. Bruce then traveled to Ethiopia to document the source of the Nile. The bulk of material concerns...
Dates:
ca. 1750-ca.1850.
James Forbes archive: A voyage from England to Bombay with descriptions in Asia, Africa, and South America
Collection
Call Number: MSS 66
Scope and Contents:
The collection comprises thirteen manuscript volumes, each of which contains numerous illustrations as well as transcriptions of letters originally composed while Forbes was in India, with a particular concentration on the natural history of India. The manuscript was finished in 1800, although most of the drawings are those done at the time of the voyage, circa 1765-1776. Volume 1 includes a presentation page, dated 11 April 1800, in which Forbes gives the set to his daughter, Elizabeth...
Dates:
circa 1765-1800