Making holiday travel plans? Take the scenic route! · Nov 29, 04:57 PM
Traveling anywhere today can be frustrating, unpleasant, exhausting experience. If, like us, you long for the pleasures of a time when the surroundings were taken in slowly and travel was an art in and of itself, then we have just the ticket.
The images below only hint at the wondrous narratives that unfold in the beautifully designed pages of Around the World:The Grand Tour in Photo Albums.
Postcards from Mr. and Mrs. James Duggan’s 1883 trip to Ireland.
From Cairo to Burma and back again, authors Barbara Levine and Kirsten Jensen transport readers back to the dawn of world travel when, Brownie cameras in tow, the middle class toured the world for the first time and painstakingly documented their discoveries within scrapbooks, diary entries, and pasted-on souvenir postcards.
On board the SS. “Amerika” in 1910 with Lucy Hauerwaas and her family.
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