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Reference Resources

Collective Resources

• Old World Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project, T. Matthew Ciolek
• American Memory Collection, Library of Congress
• Early Americas Digital Archives, University of Maryland
• American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement, Wisconsin Historical Society
• Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina
• Arizona Memory Project, Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records
• Florida Memory Project, State Library of Florida
• South Seas: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific, National Library of Australia
• Towns and Tourists, British Library
• Early Tourists in Wales, National Library of Wales

Atlases and Maps

• See also: Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers Main Page
• See also: Images
• Panoramic Maps: 1847-1929, US and Canadian cities, American Memory Collection
• Railroad Maps, 1828-1900, American Memory Collection
• Mapping the National Parks, American Memory Collection
• Antique Maps of Iceland, National and University Library of Iceland

Images

• See also: Atlases and Maps
• Travel, Movietone Portraits
• Travel: The editorial cartoons of J.N. "Ding" Darling, Drake University
• Illustrating Traveler: Adventure and Illustration in North America and the Caribbean, 1760-1895, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition, 1996
• Travel in the East, an exhibition of material from the Rare Book Collection, Monash University Library, 17th June to 20th August, catalogue by Richard Overell
• Postcards from Iceland, Arnar Oskarsson
• Antique Postcards, Birmingham, England, Arnar Oskarsson
• Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company 1880-1920, American Memory Collection
• Niagara Stereo Views, George Eastman House Still Photograph Archive
• American West Collections, George Eastman House Still Photograph Archive
• Small Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis Collection, 1850-1920, browse the subject index for tourism, for example, American Memory Collection
• Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991, American Memory Collection
• The Evolution of the Conservation Movement: 1850-1920, American Memory Collection
• Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, May 19–October 22, 2006

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Criticism and Interpretation

• Seeing is Believing? Historical Connections Between the Pictured Landscape and Tourism in the High Eastern Arctic, Jeralyne Karen Manweiler, Thesis, Master of Arts, Faculty of Arts and Science, Trent University, June 1999
• Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914, Kay Davis, University of Virginia, 2001
• Tourist Satisfaction with Cultural / Heritage Sites: The Virginia Historic Triangle, Jin Huh, Master of Science, Virginia Tech, 2002
• Walden Pond and the Performative Touristic Gaze, Daniel Christopher Bono, Master of Arts, Louisiana State University, 2008
• A Case Study of Black Heritage Tourism, Stephanie Elaine Freeman, Master of Science, NCSU, 2007
• Dark Tourism: Understanding Visitor Motivation at Sites of Death and Disaster, Stephanie Marie Yuill, Master of Science, Thesis, Texas A & M, December 2003
• President Lincoln's Commute Route: A Heritage Tourism Opportunity, Angela Susanne Brown, Master of Science in Architectural Studies, University of Florida, 2004
• "A Tough Little Patch of History": Atlanta's Marketplace for Gone With the Wind Memory, Jennifer W. Dickey, PhD GSU, 2007

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Guides and Descriptions

• See also: Travel and Nature Writing
• Friendly guide to Philadelphia and the Wanamaker store, published by John Wanamaker, c1926
• Cruises, Mainly in the Bay of the Chesapeake, Robert Barrie and George Barrie, Bryn Mawr: The Franklin Press, 1909
• Sights and scenes in Oregon, Washington and Alaska for tourists, Union Pacific Railway Company, c1890
• A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summer resorts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, and the routes by which they can be reached, Chicago and North Western Railway Company, 1884
• Detroit and the pleasure resorts of northern Michigan ..., Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad Company, 1883
• Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the northern wilderness, John Lyle King, Chicago Legal News Company, 1879
• Pacific tourist, H. T. Williams, 1876
• Old Colony railroad: its connections, popular resorts, and fashionable watering-places, [Matthew Hale Smith], Rand, Avery, 1875
• Lake Superior guide ... , J. Disturnell, 1872
• The Central Pacific Railroad: A Trip across the North American Continent from Ogden to San Francisco, Nelson's Pictorial Guide-Books, T. Nelson and Sons, 1871
• Saint Louis: the future great city of the world, L. U. Reavis, 1871
• Tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson River and New York Central Route ..., edited and published by Mrs. S. S. Colt, 1871
• The Virginia tourist, Edward A. Pollard, J. B. Lippincott, 1870
• The Pacific railroad--open. How to go: what to see ..., Samuel Bowles, Fields, Osgood, 1869
• Appletons' hand-book of American travel. The southern tour ... , Edward H. Hall, D. Appleton, 1866
• Harper's New York and Eric rail-road guide book ..., William Macleod, 8th ed., 1855-6

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