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423766
  • Title
    Oswald W.B. Brierly - Wanderer. Voyage to Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 1842
  • Call number
    A 529
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    1842
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    423766
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : CY 1067, frames 143-183 (A 529)
  • Physical Description
    Textual Records - (manuscript) 1 volume - 0.01 Meters
  • Scope and Content
    2 - 13 Feb. 1842; Rio de Janeiro and Sugar Loaf Mountains
    Describes daily activities; weather conditions; distances covered (with longitude and latitude); the creation of drawings; wildlife observed; and Rio Carnival. Includes sketches of ships, birds, canoes, and vegetation.
  • General note

    Journal is written in a ruled exercise book and text is mainly in ink with some notes in pencil.
    One page is torn and another has the bottom portion missing.
    "D.S. Mitchell" signature inside original front cover
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    On original front cover, "Rio"
    Handwritten p.1, "Rio de Janario" [i.e. Janeiro]
  • Name
  • Subject
  • Place
  • Exhibited in

    O Rio de Janeiro na Rota Dos Mares Do Dul (Rio de Janeiro on the South Seas route) - Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janiero, Brazil (20 November, 2006 - 7 January, 2007)

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