Travel and tourist periodicals
Subtitle: selections from the British Library
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1848
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 607
Subjects: Travel; Periodicals; Tourism
Other titles: Arthur Stebbings' model railway time table, and travellers' guide.; Bradshaw's overland guide to India, Egypt, and China.; British railway guide.; Chapman's british railway guide.; Clark's western counties railway guide and general advertiser.; Elliot's original London general railway, steam-boat, and omnibus guide.; Elliot's original railway, steamboat, omnibus and amusement guide.; Farmhouse and country lodgings Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk.; Great Eastern Railway time tables.; Hawaiian Kingdom statistical and commerical directory and tourists' guide.; Henderson's British Columbia gazetteer and directory.; Jamaica almanack.; London general railway, steam-boat, and omnibus guide.; North London railway suburban and city train services time table.; Suffolk County handbook and official directory.; West of England railway & steam-boat guide.
Description: This large collection from the British Library is a repository of periodicals that British travelers relied upon during the second half of the nineteenth century, after trains had overtaken horses as the primary mode of long-distance transportation. Railway guides and train timetables kept travelers on schedule and in the know by including monthly almanacs and numerous product advertisements within their pages. In fact, it appears that more space is devoted to advertisements than to any other type of content in these guides. The majority of the guides are limited to travel within Britain and Europe, but a few represent other areas, including an almanac devoted to Jamaica, a Hawaiian tourist guide, a directory for British Columbia, and an overland guide to India, Egypt, and China. This collection will be of interest to those studying the history of advertising as well as the history of travel and British history.
Notes: Date range of documents: 1848-1913.

Reproduction of the originals from the British Library.

Publication titles: Arthur Stebbings' model railway time table, and travellers' guide; Bradshaw's overland guide to India, Egypt, and China; The British railway guide; Chapman's British railway guide; Clark's western counties railway guide and general advertiser; Elliot's original London general railway, steam-boat, and omnibus guide; Elliot's original railway, steamboat, omnibus and amusement guide; Farmhouse and country lodgings Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk; Great Eastern Railway time tables; The Hawaiian Kingdom statistical and commerical directory and tourists' guide; Henderson's British Columbia gazetteer and directory; The Jamaica almanack; The London general railway, steam-boat, and omnibus guide; North London railway suburban and city train services time table; Suffolk County handbook and official directory; The west of England railway & steam-boat guide.

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