“Wish You Were Here …” : Travels Around the World

Past Exhibit
May 5 through July 31, 2017
 
Visitors could discover exotic vacation destinations in the travel literature of the James Smith Noel Collection. Books showed locations such as the snows of the Arctic, the deserts of Arabia, and the magnitude of a World’s Fair.

Photo from: Hooker, William Jackson, Sir. Journal of a tour in Iceland, in the summer of 1809. 2nd ed. London : printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ... and John Murray ... by J. Keymer, Yarmouth, 1813.