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Preferred Citation:

USS Franconia Travel Diary (Tour of Europe), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase, March 2011. Accession 2011.116

Processing Information:

Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in March 2011.

Scope and Contents

Diary, 1929, of the trip of an American college student to Hamsburg, Germany, who traveled with his parents and his brother aboard the SS Franconia. Countries visited include Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France, Scotland and England. Entries include information about his departure, his activities aboard ship, and fellow passengers. Also includes details of the locations which they visited, hotels they stayed at, as well as the restaurants, shows they saw, and operas they attended.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Diaries
• Europe--Description and travel
• Europe--Description and travel--20th century
• Germany--Description and travel--20th Century
• Great Britain--Description and travel--20th century
• Ocean travel--1920-1930
• Ocean travel--History
• Young men -- Diaries