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United States -- Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Webster Jones papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2927
Abstract

Webster Jones (born 1904) was a book collector, a graduate of the University of Oregon, and the first aviation editor at the Oregonian newspaper in Portland. This unprocessed collection includes correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks and ephemera on subjects including Webster Jones' father, Frank G. Jones, and Charles N. Kessler; diaries of Lillian Gilstrap regarding her trips across North America in the 1920s and 1930s; and scrapbooks relating to aviation history in the Pacific Northwest.

Dates: circa 1881-1961

Engravings from L'Illustration, Journal Universel

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5373
Abstract

Page removed from the periodical L'Illustration, Journal Universel containing an article, "Souvenirs d'un voyage aux EĢtats-Unis en 1847," with two engravings depicting steamboats, including the steamboat Oregon.

Dates: circa 1847