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Women's Travel Journals, Two 20th Century Examples.
Including:
1) Manuscript diary of a stay in Shanghai, China made by Maurine Hillier Sherman (1904-1950) from September 30, 1933 to July 5, 1935, Sherman was traveling with her boyfriend, Frank Sherman, who was performing at the Candidrome Ballroom in Shanghai during the dates above, he seems to have been a member of Terry Dantzler's band, she often mentions his wife Edna; the group's collective lifestyle was mainly nocturnal, with mentions of some shopping, and more often vodka drinking and bridge playing, she mentions a friend getting an abortion, partying late with other performers, and shopping for fur coats, among other things; notes are written in dated entries in a lined notebook with a red textured cover featuring a sailing ship, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.
[And] 2) Lois Lawrence Elliott's (1931-1995) journal account of a 1967 trip to Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda; an octavo-format commercially produced travel journal inscribed over approximately 100 pages, Elliott, a Bryn Mawr graduate and Cornell trained experimental psychologist, specialized in phychoacoustics, working in the Research Department at the Central Institute for the Deaf at Washington University; during this trip, she mixes her work with sight-seeing, visiting hospitals, schools, and physicians working with deaf children; she also goes on a trip to the Maasai Mara National Reserve, where she reports her observations of indigenous wildlife; her notes also serve as a report on the local response and treatment of non-hearing individuals in the late 1960s in the African countries she visited; green morocco binding, 6 1/4 x 4 in. (2)
