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(c) 2009 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Travel Album: Northern and Eastern Europe, Russia, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba
(c) 2009 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2009 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Travel Album: Northern and Eastern Europe, Russia, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba

primary (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
artist (American, 1874 - 1885)
Date1867-1886
MediumBound album including collected photographs, found papers, pressed botanicals, and pen and ink annotations
Dimensions32.1 x 27 x 3.5 cm (12 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 1 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberv.1.a.4.1
eMuseum ID730713
EmbARK ObjectID17489
TMS Source ID5761
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept thorough records of her travels in the form of travel albums. This album features her journeys through Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba between 1867 and 1886. The album chronicles the two-month trip Gardner and her husband, Jack, took across the Western United States through California, returning via New Mexico. The Gardners mapped their route, so we know that they wound their way via train from Chicago, through Salt Lake City, and to San Francisco. The Gardners also visited several natural wonders; they toured Yosemite, Monterey, and crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico on their way back to Boston.
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BibliographyNotes
Jaclyn M. Roessel. "Southwest Invention" in Diana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), pp. 193-197, figs. 1, 4.  
Diana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), pp. 21, 36-37, 193, 206, fig. 4, plates 1, 43-45, no. 1. 
MarksNotesInscribed in ink in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand on the second page: I.S. Gardner - / 1867.