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[librarycompany]

Our final #LibraryGetaway feature goes out to all the people who like a little beachside exercise during their vacay.

Photo-Illustrators, Ocean City, New Jersey Beach, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1930. Library Company of Philadelphia. Gift of Joseph Kelly.

[muspeccoll]

This travel poster advertises the Pacific Mail Steamship Company with routes from San Francisco to Asia. The company operated from 1849 to around 1938, and its ships made stops in California, Hawaii, Japan, China, and the Philippines.⠀ ⠀ NC1849.T68 A85 1920 ⠀ ⠀ #orange #geisha #travel #asia #graphicdesign #designhistory #librarygetaway #iglibraries #librariesofinstagram #specialcollections #posters #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibraryisamazing (at Ellis Library)

[therosenbach-blog]

#LibraryGetaway destination: Tahiti. This map was included in Herman Melville's second novel, OMOO, which recounted the misadventures of a whaling vessel in the South Seas: mutiny, malnutrition, imprisonment, and more! OMOO and its precursor, TYPEE, were based on Melville's on seafaring experiences--learn more about this author and his life at sea on our Herman Melville tour this Friday. http://rosenbach.org/events/hands-on-tour-herman-melville/ [Herman Melville. Omoo : a narrative of adventures in the south seas. London, John Murray, 1847. Collection of the Rosenbach, AL1.M531o 847a v. 1&2.] (at Rosenbach Museum)

[hagleyvault]

Summer is road trip season, and what better to inspire your travels than this 1933 catalog for DeSoto Motor Corporation, entitled “Let’s Go Places”? 

From the  Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera (Accession 20100108.ZTV), in Hagley’s Published Collections. You can view more pages from this catalog at our Digital Archives. 

[librarycompany]

Dainty miss, of germs be wary / Is your towel sanitary?

Ready to hit the beach for your #LibraryGetaway? This circa 1910 trade card promotes San-Knit-Tary Textile Mills, which manufactured knitted hand, face, bath, and beach towels. Simon Muhr founded the Philadelphia Straw Braid Sewing Machine Company in 1879, which eventually became the Unique Textile Mills around the turn of the century. The name changed once again in 1907 to the San-knit-ary Textile Mills.

What the wild waves are saying. [graphic]. [Philadelphia] [ca. 1910] 1 print : halftone photomechanical print ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.) 

[librarycompany]

Every Wednesday in July, we will be participating in the #LibraryGetaway Challenge! This week’s feature comes from our Morris Collection.

Marriott C. Morris’s daughter Janet Morris created this travel journal to commemorate the family’s vacation to Europe in 1925. The first half of the journal contains Janet’s fanciful imaginings of what her trip might be like, including getting swept off her feet by a foreign man. The second half is filled with clippings, tickets, and mementos of the Morris family’s journey through England and France.

See more journals from our Morris Collection here.

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