Hurst, Fannie; Kraft, Helen; Plant, Helen; Goldsmith, Adele CINCINNATI OHIO; My Trip Abroad Handwritten Journal Visited London, Florence, Venice,Dresden, Munich, Berlin, cabinet card photographs
NY, KT, 1913 , HARDCOVER
Overall Condition is: Fair
Compass mounted within Journal cover. This is a handwritten Journal of places travelled I ASSUME FROM Goldsmith, Adele AS HER NAME AND ADDRESS 3148 HARVEY AV. CINCINNATI, O. INSIDE FRONT BOARD.LEATHER BOUND WITH ALL EDGES BRIGHT GILT LOOSE BINDING EXPANDED AS PHOTOGRAPHS LAID IN LOOSE. 6 COLOR MAP 24 X 30 OF THE WORLD ON MERCATOR PROJECTION ROUTES OF FULL POWERED STEAM VESSEL. ROUTES OF SUBMARINE CABLE LINES. OCEAN CURRENTS AND THEIR DIRECTION. SOME SEPARATIONS AT FOLDS. 4 BRIGHTLY COLORED PAGES DISPLAYING 56 FUNNELS AND HOUSE FLAGS OF PRINCIPAL ATLANTIC LINES. 3 COLOR PAGES OF 45 PILOT FLAGS. 3 PAGES 37 COLOR NATIONAL FLAGS 76 FULL PAGES OF 18 LINES FULL OF DETAILS. Also includes pages that are supposed to help guide your trip such as Foretelling the Weather with an Aneroid Barometer; Latitude and Longitude from Greenwich; Value of Foreign Coins; Mail time and Distances from NYC; Difference in Time; Method of Keeping Time on board a ship; Velocity of Sound; Shuufleboard; Night Signals; Some of the travelled places were on S.S. Laconia Cunard Line (The second RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner, built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson as a successor of the 1911-1917 Laconia. The new ship was launched on 9 April 1921, and made her maiden voyage on 25 May 1922 from Southampton to New York City....places visited in this journal include: London, Florence, Venice, Dresden, Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Edinburgh..... Also includes 4 postcards and three photos of people who were written about in the journal. General shelf wear, head and foot of spine chipping, front hinge cracked. Previous owners name and address written on inner front board (Adele Goldsmith from Cincinnati, OH).
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