Details
Creator Morris, Janet, 1907-2010, compiler.
Title Europe 1931 – March – April [graphic].
Title Memories of Europe 1931 [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1931
Date 1931
Physical Description Ca. 30 items and 12 prints in 1 volume: photomechanical prints, pencil works, and letterpress ; volume 21 x 17 cm (6.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Scrapbook of souvenirs, keepsakes, clipped illustrations, and manuscript documenting the European travels of Janet Morris during the spring of 1931. Morris’s travels included attending a wedding in Switzerland. Contents include personal letters received on the ship S.S. Bremen, as well as keepsakes like the ship’s log; a wedding souvenir “The Happiness of Your Home by E. Etter, Rohrschach published by The Swiss Society of Public Utility and Public Utility Society of Swiss Women”; numerous programs for musical concerts and theater performances in Germany, Italy, and France (e.g. Berner Stadttheater, Don Kosaken Chor, Societa’ Veneziana Concerti Sinfonici); mementoes from and anecdotes about the Munich Hotel and the Glyptotek (Munich); French chocolate wrappers illustrated with flowers native to Southern France ; business cards for a Parisian seamstress and hairstylist; clothing tag for the Paris department store Aux Galerie Lafayette (i.e. Galeries Lafayette); and pressed flowers.
Notes Title from manuscript note on cover.
Cover illustrated with clipped color-printed illustration from program cover for the “Galas R. Karsenty” theater company. Shows an outdoor, nighttime scene where a man kisses the hand of a woman in masquerade.
Biographical / historical note Janet Morris, later Butler, was the daughter of amateur photographer and philanthropist Marriott C. Morris. She attended Germantown Friends' School and Connecticut College. She married Harvey Butler in Nevada in 1961. She lived in Claremont, Ca. at the time of her death.
Subject Morris, Janet, 1907-2010 -- Travel -- Europe.
Galeries Lafayette.
Glyptothek München.
Concerts -- Europe.
Ocean travel.
Weddings -- Switzerland.
Theatrical productions -- Europe.
Genre Clippings -- 1930-1940.
Ephemera -- 1930-1940.
Keepsakes -- 1930-1940.
Letterpress works -- 1930-1940.
Photomechanical prints -- 1930-1940.
Scrapbooks -- 1930-1940.
Souvenirs -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2016.37.1]
Accession number P.2016.37.1