Asia-Social life and customs-20th century

Content Description: This collection contains the correspondence of George F.F. Lombard, detailing his nearly year-long trip around the world from July 1935 to May 1936. At the age of 24, after earning his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1935, Lombard embarked from Boston to London, then traveled through Europe and Asia, crossed the Pacific Ocean to Honolulu and landed in San Francisco the next spring. Writing the majority of his letters home to his mother, Lombard mostly details his constantly changing...

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Correspondence, photographs, writings, and other papers of Agnes Mongan, Curator of Drawings at Harvard's Fogg Museum and the first woman director of a major art museum in the United States.