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  [Scrapbook of prints depicting travels in Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa in 1850 to 1853]

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  Collection of travel prints illustrating the unknown compiler's travels in Europe, Asia Minor (especially Constantinople) and North Africa. Each print is mounted on a page and has a date [presumably of the date of travel] supplied in manuscript. The majority of the album is organized largely in chronological order from April 2, 1850 to October 1850 and depict locations in France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Syria, Greece, Turkey and Asia Minor, North Africa, Egypt, Serbia and Hungary. The last 11 leaves are more haphazardly arranged, and are dated variously from 1850 to 1853.

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  [Piers Plowman; Mandeville; Troilus; etc., middle of the 15th century]

  Manuscripts

  Collection of Middle English texts, comprised of Langland's Piers Plowman in the B-text with substantial readings from A and C; a defective version, subgroup B, of Mandeville's Travels; the Middle English poem Susannah; "The legend of the Three Kings" an excerpt from John of Hildesheim's Historia Trium Regum; Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; and a translation of Peter Ceffons' Epistola Luciferi ad Cleros.

  mssHM 114

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  Scrapbook 2.14

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  This album contains images, clippings, and ephemera chiefly documenting Lawrence's early life in Oxford, England, from his birth in 1889 to about 1910. Items primarily consist of 1960s postcards and photographs depicting the local Oxford landscape and individuals and buildings related to Lawrence, as well photographs (primarily reproductions) of Lawrence as a boy and his family. The earliest photographs are a few copy prints reproduced by Duncan from the collection of Lawrence's nanny Margo Jones. There are also some postcards of London, England, and locales in Turkey and the Middle East and correspondence to Duncan about her research. Album has black covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate containing handwritten note, "Pre-War Years."

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  Stereo views of the world

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  Over 200 photographs (stereograph format) of scenes and people in numerous countries. Most are published by Underwood & Underwood, with some by Keystone View Company. Stereographs are arranged alphabetically by country. Locations: Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, Palestine, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Yugoslavia, United States, and Central and South America.

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  West Colorado looking east, decorated for the Rose Parade, Pasadena. 1929

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  View of West Colorado facing east from Orange Grove. Flags and banners are suspended across the street. The flag in the middle has an image of a man punting a football on it.

  photCL 402 (32470)

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  Bedouin tribes of the Euphrates

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  Lady Anne Blunt (1837-1917), daughter of the Earl of Lovelace and granddaughter of Lord Byron, is known as an adventurous traveler to the Middle East and the most accomplished horsewoman and breeder of Arabian stock of her era. She was married to poet and diplomat Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922). When he inherited a family estate in Sussex in 1872, the couple was able to establish a stud at their Crabbet Park home. They then traveled in the Middle East to purchase Arabian horses from Bedouin tribesmen, which they transported back to England. In 1878 Lady Anne journeyed from Beirut, across northern Syria, and south through Mesopotamia to Baghdad. From there she traveled north along the Tigris River and west across the desert to the Mediterranean port of Alexandretta (present-day Iskenderun, Turkey). In 1879 she again set out from Beirut, but traveled south through the Emirate of Jabal Shammar, reached its capital of Ha'il, across the Arabian Peninsula, and continued to the port of Bushehr (present-day Iran). Shown here is the first edition of Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. It is one of two books that Lady Anne wrote based on her travel diaries during these journeys (the other is A Pilgrimage to Nejd). Edited by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, the book concludes with a few chapters that he wrote on "the Arabs and their horses." In 1882 the couple opened a second stud outside Cairo, which they called Shaykh 'Ubayd. The couple separated in 1906, and in 1913 Lady Anne left England and moved permanently to Shaykh 'Ubayd. She died in Cairo in 1917. She is credited with helping preserve the purebred Arabian horse and was known by her friends as the "noble lady of the horses."

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