Friday, September 3, 2010

Dudley Adams, Celestial Globe. London, ca. 1800. 1954.0324.001.
Hands-On Tours
Hands-On Tour
3:00PM - 4:00PM

How did people travel in 19th-century America? In this new hands-on tour we hear from gold rush emigrants, settlers, soldiers, Indians, and European tourists. Examine the travel papers they left behind-maps, advertisements, broadsides, letters home, guidebooks, and scrap books-and see where they went and what they saw.

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