Box 4294.001

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains one travel diary that Virginia Mears kept while she and her husband were on a trip from Philadelphia to New Orleans in February and March 1861, just before the outbreak of the Civil War. The first portion of their trip was by train through Pittsburgh and Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, where they boarded a boat on the Mississippi River. Mears describes the cities and towns they visited on the Mississippi on their journey to New Orleans, including Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains one travel diary that Virginia Mears kept while she and her husband were on a trip from Philadelphia to New Orleans in February and March 1861, just before the outbreak of the Civil War. The first portion of their trip was by train through Pittsburgh and Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, where they boarded a boat on the Mississippi River. Mears describes the cities and towns they visited on the Mississippi on their journey to New Orleans, including Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains one travel diary that Virginia Mears kept while she and her husband were on a trip from Philadelphia to New Orleans in February and March 1861, just before the outbreak of the Civil War. The first portion of their trip was by train through Pittsburgh and Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, where they boarded a boat on the Mississippi River. Mears describes the cities and towns they visited on the Mississippi on their journey to New Orleans, including Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains one travel diary that Virginia Mears kept while she and her husband were on a trip from Philadelphia to New Orleans in February and March 1861, just before the outbreak of the Civil War. The first portion of their trip was by train through Pittsburgh and Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, where they boarded a boat on the Mississippi River. Mears describes the cities and towns they visited on the Mississippi on their journey to New Orleans, including Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains one travel diary that Virginia Mears kept while she and her husband were on a trip from Philadelphia to New Orleans in February and March 1861, just before the outbreak of the Civil War. The first portion of their trip was by train through Pittsburgh and Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, where they boarded a boat on the Mississippi River. Mears describes the cities and towns they visited on the Mississippi on their journey to New Orleans, including Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains one travel diary that Virginia Mears kept while she and her husband were on a trip from Philadelphia to New Orleans in February and March 1861, just before the outbreak of the Civil War. The first portion of their trip was by train through Pittsburgh and Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, where they boarded a boat on the Mississippi River. Mears describes the cities and towns they visited on the Mississippi on their journey to New Orleans, including Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez,...

Scope and Contents The folder contains six cabinet cards (all albumen prints). Some are identified as Mears family members, and two are dated (1889 and 1891).