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European Tour 1887 Extensive Travel Album. Approximately 60 page album and scrapbook, documenting the European tour of nine wealthy young ladies and one of their mothers, from Cincinnati, Ohio, and various places in the Midwest, during the summer of 1887. The album includes all of their tickets, cabinet photos of the interior and exterior of the S.S. Westernland, outward, and associated documents for the return trip on the S. S. City of Chesterton. There is a large foldout map of the timetable and route of the New York Central RR, as well as a foldout for the Paris to Lyon and the Mediterranean RR, lithographed passenger lists, daily menus, illustrated napkins, business cards, trade cards, illustrated hotel advertisements and stationery, ornately printed invoices and receipts, Swiss stamped manuscript correspondence, both letters and telegrams. Some of the countries visited and represented include England, France, Switzerland and Italy. Of the hundreds present, not a single item has been removed. Very good.