COLLECTION NAME:
Merze Tate Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwaVMTC_06b_Scrapbook_bk
Title:
Vernie Merze Tate Photograph Album 3
Title:
Merze Tate’s Photographs from Europe and the United States
Date:
approximately 1931-1932
Creator:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996
Description:
Scrapbook of black and white photographs of a variety of places Merze Tate traveled between 1931 and 1932. In the summer of 1931, Merze Tate took an eight week tour of Europe. Her passage began in Canada to Cherbough (France). From there, she took a train to Paris and 14 other countries ending in Liverpool. The first half of the album features photographs of her passage on the SS Montrose from Montreal to France, monuments and historical sights from Paris, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, England, and Quebec. In 1932, she took forty students by train from Indianapolis to Washington D.C. as part of the Crispus Attucks High School Travel Club. The second half of the album features views of United States landmarks viewed from the train, and monuments in Washington D.C and Maine. Other photographs feature views from across North America including Pike’s Peak, the Garden of the Gods (Colorado), the 10th Olympiad Los Angeles, and group pictures with Native Americans taken at an unknown location.
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Subject:
Photograph albums--1930-1939
Subject:
Ocean travel--History--20th century
Subject:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996--Travel--Europe
Subject:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996--Travel--United States
Subject:
Architecture--Europe--History--20th century--Pictorial works
Subject:
Monuments & memorials
Subject:
Olympic Games (10th : 1932 : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Keywords:
black and white photographs; Ships; Decks (Ships); Passengers; Sightseers; Beach homes; Vacation houses; Steamboats; Clothing & dress
Building Identified:
Monument de la Réformation (Geneva, Switzerland)
Building Identified:
Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral)
Building Identified:
École royale militaire (Paris, France)
Building Identified:
Théâtre Trianon (Paris, France)
Building Identified:
Malmaison (Museum : Cannes, France)
Building Identified:
Notre-Dame de Reims (Cathedral)
Building Identified:
Heidelberger Schloss (Heidelberg, Germany)
Building Identified:
Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)
Building Identified:
Vredespaleis (Hague, Netherlands)
Building Identified:
Conservatoire de musique de Genève
Building Identified:
Château de Chillon (Veytaux, Switzerland)
Building Identified:
Exposition universelle de 1889 (Paris, France)
Building Identified:
Porte d' honneur (Paris)
Places Identified:
Paris (France)
Places Identified:
Abraham, Plains of (Québec)
Places Identified:
Temple Square (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Places Identified:
Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)
Places Identified:
Rhine River Valley
Places Identified:
Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, Calif.)
Places Identified:
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Places Identified:
Marken Island (Netherlands)
Places Identified:
Trafalgar Square (London, England)
Places Identified:
Liverpool (England)
Places Identified:
Great Salt Lake Region (Utah)
Places Identified:
Geneva (Switzerland)
Places Identified:
Pikes Peak (Colo.)
Places Identified:
Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Time Period:
Nineteen thirties
Source:
Vernie Merze Tate Collection. Photograph Album 3 - Pictures from India (Box 6). Western Michigan University Archives
Language:
eng
Rights Status:
In Copyright
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University Library and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by the Western Michigan University Archives and Regional History Collections, Zhang Legacy Collections Center.
Collection:
Merze Tate Collection
Date Digital:
2023