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Nathalie Furst Gittelman Travel Ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: SC-NFT

Scope and Contents

The Nathalie Furst Gittelman Travel Ephemera Collection documents tourism and travel after World War II. The collection includes publications created by tourism bureaus in various European countries, including road and metro maps, booklets, brochures advertising specific sites, and tickets to theatre performances and other attractions.

Nathalie traveld with Students International Travel Association (SITA) Inc., and the collection includes paperwork related to this specific trip, as well as itineraries for other trips students could take. The Sita-Travel Scrapbook includes contextual information on European history, art, and culture, and brief language tutorials. The Scrapbook notes that its revised edition is the first revision to the guide made since World War II.

Sites visited during Nathalie's trip included Folies Bergère, the Louvre, Paris, French Riviera, Loire Valley, and Mont Saint-Michel in France. She attended the Shakespeare Festival and visited Windsor Castle, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama, and the Pipes and Drums Regimental Band and Dancers of the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment in Great Britain. She visited Cork and Kerry in Ireland, and Florence, Rome, Pisa, and Perugia in Italy. Her travel ephemera also includes materials from the cities and regions of Brussels, Brugge, and Ghent in Belgium, Heidelberg and the Rhine Valley in Germany, and Interlaken, Lucerne, and Zürich in Switzerland.

Her travel diary includes additional information about sites visited, meals eaten, and travel logistics, including her first experience with air travel. Some materials from Scotland and Switzerland date from after the trip and were either collected during later travels, or gathered and stored with her earlier trip materials. Materials are arranged alphabetically, and by country when relevant.

Dates

  • Creation: 1929-1967

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge. Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Biographical / Historical

Nathalie Furst was born in 1929 in Illinois. While attending college at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign she went on an organized student trip to Europe in 1949.

Partial Extent

1 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

Partial Extent

151 Megabytes

Language of Materials

English

French

German

Italian

Abstract

The Nathalie Furst Gittelman Travel Ephemera is primarily comprised of publications created by tourism bureaus in various European countries, including road and metro maps, booklets, brochures advertising specific sites, and tickets collected by Nathalie while on an organized student trip to Europe. The materials in the collection document tourism and travel after World War II from the perspective of an American college student.

Processing Information

Mallory Furnier, 2023

Title
Guide to the Nathalie Furst Gittelman Travel Ephemera
Status
Completed
Date
2023-12-07
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections & Archives Repository

Contact:
University Library
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge CA 91330-8326 USA
818-677-4594