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Middle East--Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Audiotape collection of Edna Rankin McKinnon, ca.1970

Collection Identifier: T-83
Overview:

Interviews conducted by Wilma Stokely Dykeman with Edna Rankin McKinnon, birth control advocate. Includes discussion about the her childhood, travels, and family planning outreach efforts.

George F. F. Lombard letters

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 50.15.1
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...

Family collection of Eve Grantham Kingsland, 1870-1947 (inclusive), 1891-1905 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: A/K552
Overview:

Memoir and travel letters of Eve Grantham Kingsland's great great grandmother and great aunt.

Letters from Mary Lee to Susan M. Lee, 1943-1977

Collection Identifier: MC 1128
Overview:

Letters and travel journal sent from author and journalist Mary Lee to her cousin Susan M. Lee.

Papers of Dorothy Van Ess, 1905-1975

Collection Identifier: 78-M124
Overview:

Correspondence, manuscript and typescript drafts of articles, speeches, etc., of Dorothy Van Ess, missionary in the Middle East.

Papers of Edna Rankin McKinnon, 1893-1978

Collection Identifier: MC 325
Overview:

Correspondence, financial papers, travel diaries, etc., of Edna Rankin McKinnon, birth control advocate.

Papers of Mary Paterson Van Norden, 1866-1973

Collection Identifier: MC 359
Overview:

Volumes of typed transcripts of letters of Mary Paterson Van Norden, wife of a physician and missionary in Iran for the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions.

Papers of Sophia Yarnall, 1932-1975

Collection Identifier: 75-386
Overview:

Correspondence, speeches, articles, etc., of Sophia Yarnall Jacobs, civic worker and author.

Papers of Rachel Hall, 1930-1978 (inclusive), 1953-1975 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 990
Overview:

Letters and notes documenting Rachel Hall's experiences teaching and living in Iran and Turkey from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Papers of Edith Spurlock Sampson, 1927-1979

Collection Identifier: MC 397
Overview:

Papers of Cook County circuit judge Edith Spurlock Sampson.

Freya Stark photograph collection

Collection — Box Stark 1: [Barcode: 32044150450179]Identifier: BER-37
Overview:

The collection comprises photographs taken by Freya Stark in her 1954 trip in the western and southern coasts of Turkey.