International Subject Collection

Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo; latest revision A. Demeter
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Guide to the International Subject Collection, ca. 1850-1965

Collection number: Bernath Mss 260

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara
Processed by:
D. Tambo
Date Completed:
2007
Latest revision:
Oct. 25, 2012
Encoded by:
A. Demeter
© 2012 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: International Subject Collection
Dates: ca. 1850-1965
Collection number: Bernath Mss 260
Collection Size: 1 linear foot (2 document boxes and 1 half-sized document box).
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Collection contains printed ephemera from around the world, including maps, guidebooks, viewbooks, rail and steamship travel brochures, and other related materials.
Physical location: Del Norte.
Languages: English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Turkish, Russian.

Access Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

[Item description], International Subject Collection. Bernath Mss 260. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Multiple purchases, 2006-2007.

Scope and Content of Collection

Collection contains printed ephemera from around the world, including maps, guidebooks, viewbooks, rail and steamship travel brochures, and other related materials.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Leprosy—Hospitals.
Mines and mineral resources--Ecuador.
Adzopé (Côte d'Ivoire : Dept.).
Afghanistan—Maps.
Africa—Maps.
Africa, East—Guidebooks.
Algeria.
Argentina.
Baluchistan.
Bolivia—Description and travel.
Caribbean Area—Guidebooks.
Dominican Republic.
East Indies—Maps.
Egypt.
Ethiopia.
Fiji—Guidebooks.
Ghana—Guidebooks.
Guatemala (Guatemala)—Maps.
Guyana.
Haiti—Guidebooks.
Hong Kong (China)—Guidebooks.
Ilopango (El Salvador).
Indonesia—Guidebooks.
Iran—Maps.
Jamaica.
Kosŏng-ŭp (Korea).
Lebanon—Guidebooks.
Madagascar—Maps.
Malaysia—Maps.
Manaus (Brazil).
Morocco.
Moscow (Russia).
Mozambique—Guidebooks.
New Zealand—Maps.
Oceania—Guidebooks.
Palestine—Maps.
Papeete (French Polynesia).
Peru--Description and travel.
Puerto Rico--Pictorial works.
Saint Petersburg (Russia)--Pictorial works.
Samoa.
Soviet Union.
Sudan—Guidebooks.
Syria—Guidebooks.
Trinidad—Maps.
Tunisia.
Turkey.
Valdivia (Chile : Province).
West Indies--Maps.
John Bartholomew and Son.
Rand McNally and Company.
Compagnie générale transatlantique.
Oficina Cartográfica Ludwig.
Robert MacLehose & Co.
Dutch East Indies. Dienst der Staatsspoor- en Tramwegen.
American Express Company.
Junta Nacional de Turismo (El Salvador).
Ya'Ityop̣yā 'ayar mangad.
Drukkerij G.J. Thieme.
Maktab al-Waṭanī al-Maghribī lil-Siyāḥah.
Guides Maroc-Presse.
Guides Pol (Firm).
South African Railways and Harbours.
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, ltd.
Inturist (Firm).
Governmental Affairs Institute (U.S.).
Turkey. Haberler Bürosu (New York, N.Y.).


 

Africa (continent)

Box 1: 1

Map of Africa, Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Son Ltd., ca. 1900

Box 1: 1

Africa: Pocket Map, New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Rand McNally & Company, ca. 1930

 

Algeria

Additional Note

see also North Africa.
Box 1: 2

Algiers, hand-colored map, ca. 1850

Box 1: 2

Guidebook - Winter in Algiers at the Hotel St. George, Algiers: Imp. Algérienne, ca. 1920

Box 1: 2

Guidebook - Algeria, New York: Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, 1927

Box 1: 2

Map - Plan d'Alger, avec Répertoire des Rues, Alger: Editions Baconnier Freres, ca. 1942

 

Argentina

Box 1: 3

Viewbook - Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires: G. Bourquin y Cia, ca. 1920s

Box 1: 3

Map - Nuevo Plano de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y sus Alrededores, Buenos Aires: Oficina Cartográfica "Ludwig," ca. 1920s

Box 1: 3

Map and guide - Lagos Argentinos, Argentina: Ediciones Eves, ca. 1945

 

Barbados

Additional Note

see Caribbean (region).
 

Bolivia

Additional Note

see Peru.
 

Brazil

Box 1: 4

Viewbook - The City of Manaos and the Country of Rubber Tree: Columbian Exposition Chicago, 1893, ca. 1893

 

British Guiana

Box 1: 5

Brochure - British Guiana: The Perfect Adventure for the Tourist Explorer, Glasgow: Robert MacLehose & Co., Ltd., 1935

 

Caribbean (region)

Additional Note

see also West Indies.
Box 1: 6

The Round Voyage to the Mighty River Amazon via Barbados & Trinidad, Liverpool: Booth Steamship Co. Ltd., ca. 1940s

Box 1: 6

United Fruit Company Steamship Service booklet - Following the Conquerors through the Caribbean, William Darling Press, n.d.

 

Chile

Box 1: 7

Guide - Provincia de Valdivia Chile, Chile: Ministerio de Fomento Servicios de Turismo, ca. 1920

 

Dominican Republic

Box 1: 8

Santo Domingo: Its Past and its Present Condition, Santo Domingo, 1920

 

Dutch East Indies

Box 1: 9

Travel Guide: Java, Sumatra, Bali, Batavia: Lissone-Lindeman Travel Bureau, 1929

Box 1: 9

Dutch East Indies: Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij, Gouda: Koch & Knuttel's Printing Office, 1930

Box 1: 9

Do Java by Rail! Dutch East-Indian Government Railways, ca. 1930s

 

East Africa (region)

Box 1: 10

Guidebook - Touring East Africa with Gibbs Auto Tours, ca. 1947

 

East Indies (region)

Box 1: 11

Cram's Map of East Indies and New Zealand, Indianapolis: George F. Cramo Co., Inc., ca. 1925

 

Ecuador

Box 1: 12

Quito Dredging Company, Gold and Platinum Mines, Province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, S. A., ca. early 1900s

 

Egypt

Box 1: 13

Bartholomew's New Map of Egypt, Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Co., ca. early 1900s

Box 1: 13

Booklet - Egypt, the Sudan, Syria, and Palestine, American Express, ca. 1927

 

El Salvador

Box 1: 14

Mapa Turistico del Lago de Ilopango en el Salvador, C. A., Salvador: Junta Nacional de Turismo, ca. 1950

 

Ethiopia

Box 1: 15

Brochure portfolio - Ethiopia, Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Airlines, ca. 1965

 

Gold Coast / Ghana

Box 1: 16

Guidebook - The Gold Coast, London: Forster, Groom & Co., 1928

 

Guatemala

Box 1: 17

Map of the Main Business Section of Guatemala City, Guatemala: Libreria "Cosmos," ca. 1920s-1930s

 

Haiti

Box 1: 18

A Guide to Haiti, New York: Haiti Tourist Information Bureau, 1953

 

Hong Kong

Box 1: 19

Guide to Hong Kong, California Directory Association, 1933

 

Indonesia

Additional Note

see also Dutch East Indies.
Box 2: 1

Guidebook - Java: The Wonderland, Arnhem: G. J. Thiem, n.d.

 

Ivory Coast

Box 2: 2

Booklet on leper settlement - Le Premier Million d'Adzopé, ca. 1939

 

Jamaica

Box 2: 3

Map of the Island of Jamaica, 1895

Box 2: 4

Guide/viewbook - A Jamaica Outing, Boston: Sherwood Publishing Co., 1899

 

Korea

Box 2: 5

Rail guide and map - Kongo-San "Diamond Mountain Chosen," Government Railways in Chosen, ca. 1925

 

Lebanon

Additional Note

see Syria.
 

Madagascar

Box 2: 6

Carte de Madagascar, Service Géographique de l'Armée, 1894

 

Malaysia

Box 2: 7

Map - Oceania and Malaysia, Chicago, New York: Rand McNally & Company, ca. early 1900s

Box 2: 7

Map - Malaya 1937, Survey Department F.M.S. & S.S., 1936

 

Morocco

Additional Note

see also North Africa.
Box 2: 8

Set of city brochures - Agadir; Azrou; Casablanca; Fes; Ifrane; Marrakech; Mazagan; Meknes; Mogador; Rabat and Sale; Taza; Rabat: Office Marocain du Tourisme, ca. 1930s-1940s

Box 2: 8

Casablanca: Avec Plan de la Ville et Nomenclature des Rues, Casablanca: Guides Maroc Presse, 1943

Box 2: 8

Plan-Guide de Rabat, Lyon: Edition des Guides Pol, 1953

 

Mozambique

Box 2: 9

Guidebook - Direcção dos Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique and South African Railways and Harbours, Lorenço Marques: South Africa's Continental Holidayland, 1934

 

New Zealand

Additional Note

see East Indies.
 

North Africa (region)

Box 2: 10

Carte Générale de l'Afrique du Nord: Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc, Alger: Editions P. & G. Sourbiron, 1930

 

Pacific Islands

Box 2: 11

A Day in Suva, Fiji, Dunedin: Wilkies Ltd., ca. 1920s

Box 2: 11

Panoramic View of Papeete (Tahiti), ca. 1920s

Box 2: 11

Handbook of the Western Pacific: New Guinea, Papua, Solomon Islands, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Hebrides, Noumea, Sydney: Pacific Publications Ltd., 1933

Box 2: 11

Brochure - Spend Your Next Holiday in the Fiji Islands, Where Winter Never Comes, Suva: Government Printing Office, ca. 1933

Box 2: 11

Islands of the South Seas, Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, ca. 1930s

Box 2: 11

New Caledonia Illustrated, Nouméa: Imprimeries Réunies, 1942

Box 2: 11

R. C. Laycock, "Pearls of the South Seas," the Solomon Islands, Sydney: G. A. Jones, ca. 1940s

 

Palestine

Additional Note

see also Egypt.
Box 2: 12

Guide-Map of Ancient & Modern Jerusalem, Jerusalem: Syrian Orphanage Press, ca. 1935

Box 2: 12

Palestine Map 1942, Jerusalem: Y. Mizrahi & Co., 1942

 

Persia

Box 2: 13

Map - Persia, Afghanistan and Baluchistan, Liverpool: George Philip & Son, Ltd., ca. 1920

Box 2: 13

Map - Persia, Afghanistan and Baluchistan, San Francisco, Chicago, New York: Rand McNally & Company, ca. 1925

 

Peru

Box 2: 14

The Land of the Incas: Descriptive of a Journey through Southern Peru and Bolivia, Lima: Peruvian Corporation Ltd., 1937

 

Puerto Rico

Box 2: 15

Views of Puerto Rico, San Juan: Waldrop Photographic Company, 1905

 

Russia / Soviet Union

Box 3: 1

Viewbook - Souvenir de St. Petersbourg, ca. early 1900s

Box 3: 1

Map of the Soviet Union with Travel Rates & Suggested Itineraries, New York: Intourist, Inc., 1935

Box 3: 1

The Moscow Metro, Moscow: Intourist, ca. 1950s

Box 3: 1

Moscow: Pictorial Street-map, ca. 1950s

Box 3: 1

Dean B. Mahin & Richard M. Scammon, Soviet Russia: A Guidebook for Tourists, Washington, D.C.: Governmental Affairs Institute, 1959

 

Samoa

Box 3: 2

Samoa Tourist Gazette, Administration of Western Samoa, ca. 1925

 

Sudan

Additional Note

see Egypt.
 

Syria

Additional Note

see also Egypt.
Box 3: 3

Le Tourisme en Syrie et au Liban, Nancy, Paris, Strasbourg: Imp. Berger-Levrault, 1928

 

Trinidad

Additional Note

see also Caribbean (region).
Box 3: 4

Map - Trinidad, Government of Trinidad and Tobago, 1930

 

Tunisia

Additional Note

see also North Africa.
Box 3: 5

Guidebook - Tunisia, New York: Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, 1927

 

Turkey

Box 3: 6

Sydney Clark, Turkey for the Best, New York: Turkish Information Office, 1952

Box 3: 6

Map of Istanbul, ca. 1955

 

West Indies

Additional Note

see also Caribbean (region).
Box 3: 7

Rand McNally & Co.'s Map of West Indies, Rand McNally & Co., 1912