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The Resource Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's tales from the grand tour, 1890-1910, edited by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq

Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's tales from the grand tour, 1890-1910, edited by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq

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Summary
  • "Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 is a travelogue of captivating adventures through exotic lands as experienced by an intrepid American aristocrat and her son at the dawn of the twentieth century."
  • "Like many of their peers in the upper echelons of American society, this wealthy duo were drawn into the Egyptian craze that swept late-nineteenth-century society, and they fully immersed themselves in the nascent field of scientific archaeology. More obsessed and philanthropic than most, the Coxes not only visited the sites and monuments of ancient civilizations but also participated in digs, funded entire expeditions, and ultimately subsidized the creation of the Coxe Wing of Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. In addition to the scholarly contributions gained through their patronage, they left a vivid chronicle of camels and trains, tents and trenches, and dervishes and pyramids that has gone unpublished until now."
  • "Her letters and recollections are complemented by numerous photographs and several original watercolor paintings. By words and pictures, Lizzie Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour reveal the turn-of-the-century excitement about the burgeoning field of Egyptology, the intellectual pursuits available to women of means, and the familial and social ties between the upper classes of the North and South, that predated and survived the Civil War."--Jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xxxv, 120 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates)
Isbn
9781611172102
Instance
Label
Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's tales from the grand tour, 1890-1910
Title
Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's tales from the grand tour, 1890-1910
Statement of responsibility
edited by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • "Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 is a travelogue of captivating adventures through exotic lands as experienced by an intrepid American aristocrat and her son at the dawn of the twentieth century."
  • "Like many of their peers in the upper echelons of American society, this wealthy duo were drawn into the Egyptian craze that swept late-nineteenth-century society, and they fully immersed themselves in the nascent field of scientific archaeology. More obsessed and philanthropic than most, the Coxes not only visited the sites and monuments of ancient civilizations but also participated in digs, funded entire expeditions, and ultimately subsidized the creation of the Coxe Wing of Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. In addition to the scholarly contributions gained through their patronage, they left a vivid chronicle of camels and trains, tents and trenches, and dervishes and pyramids that has gone unpublished until now."
  • "Her letters and recollections are complemented by numerous photographs and several original watercolor paintings. By words and pictures, Lizzie Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour reveal the turn-of-the-century excitement about the burgeoning field of Egyptology, the intellectual pursuits available to women of means, and the familial and social ties between the upper classes of the North and South, that predated and survived the Civil War."--Jacket
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Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
910.4092
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
D919
LC item number
.E44 2006eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1843-1919
  • 1942-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler
  • LeClercq, Anne Sinkler Whaley
Series statement
Women's diaries and letters of the South
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler
  • Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler
  • Europe
  • Africa, North
  • Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler
  • TRAVEL
  • Travel
  • North Africa
  • Europe
  • Nordafrika
  • Europa
Label
Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's tales from the grand tour, 1890-1910, edited by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq
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Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
826657907
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xxxv, 120 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781611172102
Lccn
2006006855
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations (some color).
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctv6vr6ks
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)826657907
Label
Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's tales from the grand tour, 1890-1910, edited by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
826657907
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xxxv, 120 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781611172102
Lccn
2006006855
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations (some color).
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctv6vr6ks
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)826657907

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