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Field name | Value |
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Title | Rebecca Russell Lowell Gardner Travel Diaries, 1831 |
Author/Creator | Gardner, Rebecca Russell Lowell (1779-1853) |
Date | 1831 |
Document type | Travel Journal |
Description | Diaries kept by Rebecca Russell Lowell Gardner of Salem, Massachusetts, 26 March-22 May 1832, during a tour of Richmond, Norfolk, and Charlottesville, Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; Washington, D.C.; Pittsburgh and Erie, Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Dayton, Ohio; and Buffalo and Rochester, New York, among other cities with her son John Lowell Gardner and daughter-in-law Catherine Endicott Peabody Gardner. Diaries contain descriptions of their travels by train, steamboat, and coach; visits to Mount Vernon, Monticello, Old Point Comfort, Lake Erie, and Niagara Falls; steamboat travel on the Potomac, Dismal Swamp Canal, Ohio River, and Miami Canal; time spent with fellow travellers; social events; and the weather. |
Theme(s) | Women and Tourism Package Tours, Cruises and Organised Travel About themes |
Regions | United States of America |
Country/State | Maryland Virginia Washington Ohio Pennsylvania New York |
Ships | Pocahontas; Potomack |
Keywords | hotel, entertainment, accommodation, monument, sightseeing, hot springs, church, steamboat, health, hospitality, women, wildlife, food, African American, poverty, employment, children, architecture, prices, shopping, weather, military, flowers, sailing, marriage, lake, slavery, university, carriage drive, agriculture, Mount Vernon, clothing, art, American Indian, river, economy, Niagara Falls, waterfall |
Visual content | View thumbnails |
Reference | Ms. N-1274 |
Library | Massachusetts Historical Society |
Language | English |
Copyright | Copyright of this material is retained by the content creators. Massachusetts Historical Society does not claim to hold any copyrights to these materials |