Caribbean Area -- Description and travel
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Caribbean Photograph Album
Item — Box 1
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0101
Scope and Contents
An early tourist's photo album of a voyage around the Caribbean, including images of Cuba, Jamaica, and Saint Thomas. Includes twenty-three original albumen photographs, with twelve flower and plant samples found on the voyage mounted on the album leaves.
Dates:
1873-01-29 - 1873-02-28
Herbert Benezet Tyson Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5010
Abstract
A group of 5 letters written by naval lieutenant Herbert Benezet Tyson of the U.S.S. Connecticut, during that ship's cruise to and around the Caribbean in winter/spring 1865.
Dates:
1865
William S. Patten Journal and Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10024
Content Description
The main item in this collection is an oversized personal journal and scrapbook maintained from 1907-1915 by William S. Patten, an officer in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. Many pages include dated journal or diary-type entries describing activties of the day often supplemented with images or ephemera. This note highlights some of the significant content in the scrapbook, but it is not a comprehensive inventory of subjects covered.Although there are some photographs of his...
Dates:
1907-1915