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Southeast Asia -- Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Millicent Todd Bingham papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 496D
Abstract:

One-fifth of the papers are devoted to correspondence, books, articles, speeches and research notes relating to her publication of Emily Dickinson's poems in Bolts of Melody (1945) and three subsequent books about Emily Dickinson. Bingham's education as well as her professional life as a teacher of French and as a geographer, particularly of Peru, are thoroughly documented with correspondence, research notes, publications and other papers (1885-1929).

Dates: 1865-1968

Dan Beach and Cornelius Beach Bradley papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 97
Abstract: Professional papers of Dan Beach Bradley and his son, Cornelius Beach Bradley, both missionaries to Thailand (then Siam) in the nineteenth century. The papers of Dan Beach Bradley consist of four manuscript volumes of a Siamo-English dictionary, articles and notes on the history and culture of Siam, including a list (copy) by the king of Siam of his 61 children in 1852, as well as copies of essays on the Siamese language in both English and Siamese by the king. A number of unidentified...
Dates: 1801-1921

John Fee Embree papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 976
Abstract: Miscellaneous papers of John Fee Embree, sociologist and director of Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, 1950. Two journals of trips to the Far East, 1926 and 1947-1948, the latter accompanied by numerous photographs, postcards, wood cuts, and other illustrations are included. Also in the papers are correspondence and mimeographed memoranda of the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council and the Far Eastern Association, 1948-1951, on the advancement...
Dates: 1926-1950, bulk 1945-1950

Theodore Martindale Purdy photographs and papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1994
Abstract:

This collection consists of photograph albums, maps, diaries and other materials documenting the worldwide travels of Theodore Martindale Purdy from 1883 to 1931.

Dates: 1883-1931