Ewer Travel Collection, 1867-1994

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Summary

Creators:
Ewer, Florence (1872-1944) and Ewer, Bernard Capen (1877-1962)
Abstract:
The Ewer Travel Collection contains travel ephemera, journals, and scrapbooks related to the early 20th century travels of Florence and Bernard Ewer around the world.
Extent:
3.36 linear feet
Language:
English .
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Background

Scope and content:

The Ewer Travel Collection contains travel ephemera, journals, and scrapbooks related to the early 20th century travels of Florence and Bernard Ewer around the world. The Collection is divided into two series: Series I: Brochures and Postcards (1867-1994) and Series II: Scrapbooks (1929-1941).

Series I, Brochures and Postcards, contains promotional travel booklets and brochures for specific countries and regions of the world. There are also a number of postcards, mainly send to Bernard Ewer in the two decades after Florence passed. Folders are titled by country or region, and are arranged alphabetically.

Series II, Scrapbooks, is comprised of scrapbooks with ephemera, photographs, maps, and journal entries describing trips taken around the world by Florence and Bernard Ewer. Many of the scrapbooks contain journal entries describing their experiences. The journal entries were likely written by Florence. Earlier scrapbooks document travel around the world, but the Ewers stayed within North America in the late 1930s and early 1940s as World War II loomed. The scrapbook pages were originally inserted in small binders, with some in poor condition. The three best examples of the binders were retained. The scrapbooks are arranged chronologically.

Biographical / historical:

Florence Martin Burt was born in Rhode Island in 1872. Her husband Bernard Capen Ewer was born in Connecticut in 1877. They married in 1907. Bernard became a professor of psychology at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Florence died in 1944 and her husband Bernard passed in 1962.

Acquisition information:
Christiana Graham, 1996
Processing information:

Mallory Furnier, 2025

Arrangement:

Series I: Brochures and Postcards, 1967-1994

Series II: Scrapbooks, 1929-1941

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research use.

Terms of access:

Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.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.

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Location of this collection:
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330, US
Contact:
(818) 677-4594
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