Contributions

  • Schwartz, Seymour I., 1928- - Contributor

Publication

2000 - Rochester Museum & Science Center and the University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

42,000 words, Guess

Page Count

168 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number00039227
  • Goodreads2036440

Classifications

  • DDC917.404/3
  • LCCF8 .H65 2000

Alternate Titles

  • 1831 illustrated journal of Herbert Holtham's travels

Description

"Herbert Holtham, a Unitarian lay minister from Brighton, England, came to the United States in the spring of 1831, and spent several months traveling in the Northeast.". "Holtham recorded his impressions of both urban and rural scenes, the people and their opinions, family life, church life and activities, and reports of many conversations he had while traveling. The journal of his travels provides a superior set of impressions of America at the time from a man who brought to the transcription his skills of perception. Beyond the words, the journal contains thirty marvelous pencil and ink drawings of what he saw: scenes of Niagara Falls and downtown Rochester accompany paintings of the Capitol in Washington, a carriage operated by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

USATravelClergyCanadaDiariesEnglishEngland

People

Herbert Holtham

Times

Genres

  • Pictorial works.
  • Diaries.

Other Editions

  • An Englishman's journey along America's eastern waterways: the 1831 illustrated journal of Herbert Holtham's travelsRochester Museum & Science Center and the University of Rochester Press2000-01-01

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