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Preferred Citation:

Travel Diary "The Smokies, North and South Carolina, etc.", Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Purchase.

Processing Information:

Accessioned and minimally processed in April 2010 by Ute Schechter, Warren E. Burger Archivist.

Scope and Contents

Travel diary, April 1960 of an unidentified author, who describes day-by-day impressions of people met, food, crops, etc.  Among the states visited are North and South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Indiana and Illinois, which seems to be the state where the author and his or her travel companion reside.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Automobile travel--United States--History--Sources
• Diaries
• Southern States--Description and travel