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Are you considering only nationwide guides? Please consider the Federal Writers' Project American Guide series of state and county books, published in the late 1930s and early 1940s. For a project on the New Deal in Ohio, I have found 20+ guides, with several more in manuscript, written by the FWP in the state. Many of these guides are in local history collections in public libraries. Cleveland Public Library maintains a travel guide collection--a quick ClevNet search brings up over 1000 titles for the US alone. A sniffy aside: For this baseball fan, I cannot help but think that the excellent former Cleveland players now playing in the World Series may have consulted CPL's collection during their trades. Maybe next year. Good luck! Shirley Wajda Researcher, "Picturing the New Deal: The Great Depression in Ohio" Ohio Humanities Council On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Ed Salo <EdSalo@brockington.org> wrote: > Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:05 AM > From: Samantha J. Boardman [samjohns@pegasus.rutgers.edu] > > > Currently, I am seeking travel guidebooks to the U.S. - year/language > unimportant, along the lines of Lonely Planet, Frommer's, Fodor's, etc. - > to be used in a research project. > > Apparently, there aren't any special collections devoted to U.S. travel > materials, so I would love to solicit the listserv members to see if > anyone has either guidebooks or suggestions on where there might be a good > repository of such. > > Is this appropriate for the listserv? If so, how might I post such an > inquiry? Many thanks! > > Sincerely, > Samantha Boardman > American Studies PhD Program > Rutgers University >
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