Guide to the Nathalie Furst Gittelman Travel Ephemera
Special Collections & Archives
University Library
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8326
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: Nathalie Furst Gittelman Travel Ephemera
Creator:
Furst Gittelman, Nathalie (1929-2015)
Identifier/Call Number: SC.NFT
Physical Description:
1 linear foot
Physical Description:
151 Megabytes
Date (inclusive): 1929-1967
Abstract: The Nathalie Furst
Gittelman Travel Ephemera is primarily comprised of publications created by tourism bureaus
in various European countries, including road and metro maps, booklets, brochures
advertising specific sites, and tickets collected by Nathalie while on an organized student
trip to Europe. The materials in the collection document tourism and travel after World War
II from the perspective of an American college student.
Language of Material:
English, French, German, Italian
Biographical / Historical
Nathalie Furst was born in 1929 in Illinois. While attending college at the University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign she went on an organized student trip to Europe in 1949.
Scope and Contents
The Nathalie Furst Gittelman Travel Ephemera Collection documents tourism and travel after
World War II. The collection includes publications created by tourism bureaus in various
European countries, including road and metro maps, booklets, brochures advertising specific
sites, and tickets to theatre performances and other attractions.
Nathalie traveld with Students International Travel Association (SITA) Inc., and the
collection includes paperwork related to this specific trip, as well as itineraries for
other trips students could take. The Sita-Travel Scrapbook includes contextual information
on European history, art, and culture, and brief language tutorials. The Scrapbook notes
that its revised edition is the first revision to the guide made since World War II.
Sites visited during Nathalie's trip included Folies Bergère, the Louvre, Paris, French
Riviera, Loire Valley, and Mont Saint-Michel in France. She attended the Shakespeare
Festival and visited Windsor Castle, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Madame Tussaud's Wax
Museum, the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama, and the Pipes and Drums
Regimental Band and Dancers of the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment in Great Britain.
She visited Cork and Kerry in Ireland, and Florence, Rome, Pisa, and Perugia in Italy. Her
travel ephemera also includes materials from the cities and regions of Brussels, Brugge, and
Ghent in Belgium, Heidelberg and the Rhine Valley in Germany, and Interlaken, Lucerne, and
Zürich in Switzerland.
Her travel diary includes additional information about sites visited, meals eaten, and
travel logistics, including her first experience with air travel. Some materials from
Scotland and Switzerland date from after the trip and were either collected during later
travels, or gathered and stored with her earlier trip materials. Materials are arranged
alphabetically, and by country when relevant.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of
this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.
Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires
the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any
use rests exclusively with the user.
Preferred Citation
For information about citing items in this collection consult the appropriate style manual,
or see the
Citing Archival
Materials
guide.
Box 1, Folder 9
Great Britain, England,
ca. 1948-1949
Box 1, Folder 10
Great Britain, England,
ca. 1949
Box 2, Folder 1
Great Britain, Scotland,
ca. 1949-1963
Box 2, Folder 7
Luggage Stickers and Coasters,
ca. 1949
Box 2, Folder 9
SITA Adventure Trails,
1949
Box 2, Folder 10
Switzerland,
ca. 1947-1967
Box 2, Folder 11
Trans-Canada Air Lines,
1949
