Title: Baedeker Handbook for Travellers
Summary: Founded in 1827 by Karl Baedeker, the German publisher was a pioneer in the business of worldwide travel guides. The guides contain, among other things, maps and introductions; information about routes and travel facilities; and descriptions of noteworthy buildings, sights, attractions, and museums, written by specialists
Selected editions: Great Britain (1910), Italy (1928), London (1907), Palestine & Syria (1898), Paris (1881), and Spain (1913).
Title: Susan Helen Ballou travel diaries and photographs, 1899-1935
Summary: Diary kept by Susan Ballou, a University of Wisconsin faculty member, while travelling in Italy, Greece, Egypt, and France in 1928-1929 and in Spain and Portugal in 1935, and album of commercial and personal photographs related to a visit to Italy and Greece, 1899-1902.
Call Number: SC 796
Title: Margarete Bohle papers, 1908-2005
Summary: Papers of longtime Milwaukee, Wisconsin, school teacher Margarete Bohle. She attended the Milwaukee Normal School and Milwaukee State Teacher's College and received an M.A. in education from Marquette University in 1941. The papers document her teaching career, personal life, and travels. The travel journal (1939-1953) describe her trips to New York, Yellowstone, and the Smoky Mountains, etc.
Call Number: M2006-038
Title: Travel account, 1914
Summary: Account of an automobile trip from Wisconsin to San Diego, California, made by Brokaw and his bride in 1914.
Call Number: SC 759
Title: Diary, 1836
Summary: Typed copy of a diary of Chandler's wagon trip from Virginia to Missouri describing the weather, traveling conditions, and the work done by the women in the group.
Call Number: File 1836 September 16
Title: Essays, 1930-1931
Summary: A western air plane flight from a passenger's viewpoint, Los Angeles, California, to Kansas City, Kansas, August 10, 1930. Also a letter, dated Milwaukee, Wis., June 26, 1931, describing a motor coach journey from Los Angeles to Chicago, Illinois.
Call Number: File 1930 August 10
Title: Letters, 1921-1924
Summary: Letters written by Coleman, a scientist, to his mother while engaged in terrestrial magnetism studies in the Far East; including his observations on life in Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, New Guinea, Tahiti, Java, Singapore, Saigon, and several island groups in the area.
Call Number: SC 670
Title: Papers, 1878-1966
Summary: Papers of librarian Flora Neil Davidson, who worked for many years at the University of Wisconsin, which present a portrait of an early twentieth century career woman and glimpses of her work as a librarian. Included are several volumes of "diaries" which contain journal entries, poems, and quotations from written sources and from conversations; a list of books read; a guest book; a scrapbook with swatches of her dresses and descriptions of them and where they were worn; an extensive travel diary describing a 1929 trip to New England. The diaries, including the travel diary, are indexed.
Call Number: M96-070
Title: Diaries, 1964-1965
Summary: Two diaries, kept by Davis while she and her husband Brian taught at the Sardauna Provincial Secondary School at Ganye, in northern Nigeria, as members of the Peace Corps.
Call Number: SC 526
Title: Journal, 1962-1964
Summary: Transcription of diaries kept by Drewiske while with the Peace Corps in Panama, working on public health and sanitation
Call Number: File 1962 November 24
Title: Steve Dutch Diary
Summary: Journal kept by Prof. Steve Dutch during the Persian Gulf War (December 1990-October 1991).
Call Number: 1992.4
Title: Diary, 1945
Summary: Typed transcript of a diary, 1945, April 26-May 22, kept by U.S. Air Corps Colonel John C. Egan, originally of Manitowoc, Wisconsin; recording events of the last few days of his nineteen months as a prisoner of war in Germany and while awaiting return to the United States; plus notes giving advice on how to travel and places to avoid if attempting an escape.
Call Number: SC 2018
Title: Papers, 1963-1965
Summary: Typed copy of a diary kept by a former Peace Corps volunteer who did community development work in Nepal, together with an album including post cards and black and white photographs.
Call Number: SC 869
Title: Records, 1916-2008
Summary: Records of an organization promoting the Green Bay area as a commercial, mercantile, and manufacturing center. Documents pertain to industrial and commercial development, downtown business promotion, urban renewal, beautification projects, political activities, tourism development, and community service activities. Collection is noteworthy for its understanding of the promotion and development of Green Bay as well as the role of the Green Bay Packers.
Call Number: Green Bay Mss 116