Typed Manuscript Memoir and Diary of trip to Paris for Exposition Universelle of 1889: The Eiffel Tower is Unveiled. [Worcester]: No Publisher, [1889].
23 single sheets; typed in blue; fastened with two brads at top. The left side of the pages have holes and at one time, this journal may have been kept in a 2-ring-binder but the pages have been made into a rolled scroll for many years. A first person account by young woman from Worcester, Massachusetts who accompanies her Aunt Lidia and Uncle Jerome to Paris for the opening of the Exposition Universelle of 1889 (the World's Fair where the Eiffel Tower was unveiled). The uncle is an engineer and appears to have been involved with one of the American exhibits. This account is typed (in blue ink) on paper watermarked Paper Co Holyoke Mass with a watermarked date of 1898, so this may be a transcription of a handwritten journal kept during the trip (which spanned from May 29, 1889 to July 17, 1889). The pages are clean and easy to read. The paper is supple. The first page is detached from the group and has some additional wear to the bottom edge. The journal recounts the voyage from NYC to Liverpool on the S. S. City of New York which she describes as ... a magnificent steamer! Someone called it a floating palace. She recounts how they make their way from Liverpool to Paris in the company of other engineers and luminaries; and her impressions of the Exposition, staying at the Grand Hotel, and the Eiffel Tower.
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