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Scope and Contents of the Collection
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| Creator: | Arents, George, 1875-1960. |
| Title: | Arents Grand Tour Collection |
| Inclusive Dates: | circa 1900-1925 |
| Quantity: | 9 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Commercially printed photograph albums of cities and sites of interest in countries around the world. |
| Language: | English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Croatian, Russian, Portuguese |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Biographical History
George Arents, Jr. (1875-1960) was an American businessman. He studied at Columbia University and received his master's degree from Syracuse University at the age of 57. His father and great-uncle were founders of the Allen & Ginter Tobacco Company, which later became the American Tobacco Company. In 1922 Arents became a director of the American Tobacco Company and from 1924 he was the treasurer of both the American Machine and Foundry and International Cigar Machinery. He was also a collector of books and other published material relating to tobacco. He and his wife Lena made substantial gifts to Syracuse University; in recognition of their generosity, the department of rare books and special collections at Bird Library was for many years known as the George Arents Research Library.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Arents Grand Tour Collection consists of dozens of photograph albums of cities and sites of interest in countries around the world. Countries represented include Algeria, Australia, Cambodia, the U.K., most of Europe, Iceland, Malta, several Scandinavian countries, Tunisia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, and more.
All but two of the albums are commercially produced and printed; some of the smaller booklets are perforated and intended to be used as postcards. The two volumes of "Wanderings in Spain and Portugal" appear to contain original photographs taken by the Arentses during their travels through those two countries, with handwritten captions.
Restrictions
Access Restrictions
The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.
Use Restrictions
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Related Material
See also the Arents Postcard Collection and the Arents Christmas Card Collection.
Subject Headings
Persons
Subjects
Places
Genres and Forms
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Arents Grand Tour Collection,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of George and Lena Arents.
Finding Aid Information
Created by: MRC
Date: 8 Nov 2010
Revision history: 8 Dec 2016 - inventory added (MRC);
10 Jan 2019 - added related material links, removed 2 Berlin photoalbums that were
part of Krasner collection, rehoused, inventory updated/corrected (MRC)
Inventory
| Photoalbums | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Algeria (5 albums in 2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Algiers, Blida | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Alger [red]; Alger [brown]; Souvenir d'Alger [blue]; Souvenir d'Alger [red]; Blida et Gorges de la Chiffa | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Australia (1 album in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: New South Wales | |||||||||||
| Album titles: One Hundred Photographic Pictures of Places of Interest in New South Wales, including Visitors Resorts, Buildings, Shipping, &c. | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Austria (10 albums in 4 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Gmunden, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Salzkammergut, Kitzbühel, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Vienna | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Erinnerung in der Salzkammergut; Innsbruck; Salzburg; Gisela-Bahn; Tirol und Vorarlberg; Album von Wien; Erinnerung an Wien; Das Neue Wien; Wien [red]; Wien [green] | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Belgium (6 albums in 2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Anvers, Brussels | |||||||||||
| Album titles: 24 Vues de la ville d'Anvers; Souvenir d'Anvers; Bruxelles; Souvenir de Bruxelles [blue]; Souvenir de Bruxelles [red with gold]; Souvenir de Bruxelles [red with gold and black]; | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Cambodia (1 album in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Angkor-Wat | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Le temple d'Angkor-Vath Angkor-Wat | |||||||||||
| Croatia | |||||||||||
| For the towns of Opatija (Abbazie) and Rijeka (Fiume), which are in modern-day Croatia, see Yugoslavia. | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Czechoslovakia (5 albums in 3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Karlsbad, Prague | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Karlsbad; [untitled, red and gold]; [untitled, red and gold]; Praha Prague; Praha Prague ПРАГА | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Denmark (1 album in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Roskilde | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Roskilde Domkirke | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | England, B-L (12 albums in 4 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Bedford, Blackpool, Colchester, London | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Rock's Royal Bedford Cabinet Album; The Album of Blackpool Views; Rock's Royal Colchester Cabinet Album; Album of London Views [red, title in script]; Album of London Views [red, title in block letters]; London Views; The New Album of London; The Royal Album of London View; Views of London; The Royal Album of Crystal Palace Views; The Temple; Views of the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | England, M-W (7 albums in 3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Manchester, Newbury, Salisbury, Torquay, Warwick, Windsor | |||||||||||
| Album titles: The Album of Manchester Views; The Sixpenny Album of Newbury Views; Views of Salisbury; The Album of Torquay Views; Views of Warwick, Kenilworth, and Shakespeare's Country; The Royal Album of Windsor Views; The Album of Windsor Views | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | France, A-C (7 albums in 3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Biarritz, Carcasonne, Chamonix, Charters, Chenonceaux | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Automobile Trip 1903 [very large foldout map in hard covers and slipcase]; Biarritz; Biarritz St. Jean-de-Luz; Cité de Carcasonne; Souvenir Vallée de Chamonix; Cathédrale de Chartres; Chenonceaux | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | France, C-V (28 albums in 9 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Cheverny, Chinon, Fontainebleau, Grande Corniche, Langeais, Loup (river), Marseille, Mont St. Michel, Nice, Nîmes, Paris, the Pyrenees, Quimper, Rheims, Strasbourg, Vaux (and other forts); Verdun, Versailles | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Cheverny; Chinon; Fontainebleau, Le Chateau; Circuit de la Grande Corniche; Excursion de la Grande Corniche; Langeais; Les Gorges de Loup; Marseille; Souvenir de Marseille; Le Mont St. Michel; Souvenir de Nice et Monte Carlo; Nîmes et ses Environs; La Conciergerie; Paris; Expiatory Chapel Louis XVI Square; Hôtel des Invalides; Pantheon; Sacre-Coeur, Montmartre; Mon excursion dans les Pyrenees; Mon voyage aux Pyrenees; La Route des Pyrenees; Quimper; Ce qu'etait Reims ce quelle est devenue; Souvenir von Strassburg; Le Circuit des Forts: Vaux, Douaumont, L'Ossuaire, la Tranchée des Baïonettes; Album souvenir Verdun; Versailles; Souvenir Versailles et Trianons | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | France, Paris (1 album) | ||||||||||
| Places: Paris | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Exposition Universelle de Paris 1889 | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | France, V (cont.) (1 album in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Versailles | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Versailles et les Trianons, Vues Photographiques | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | Germany, A-E (9 albums in 5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Ahrthal, Baden-Baden, Berlin (and Potsdam); Bremen, Dresden, Edenkoben | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Ahrthal; Souvenir von Baden-Baden; Ansichten-Album Berlin; Berlin [red with gold]; Berlin [red with gold and black]; Berlin-Potsdam; Bremen; Dresden; Ansichts-Album von Edenkoben | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | Germany, F-H (8 albums in 6 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Frankfurt, Görbersdorf, Hamburg | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Frankfurt [red with gold and black, first photo is numbered 505]; Frankfurt a M; Album von Frankfurt am Main; Frankfurt [red with gold and black, first photo is numbered 59]; Görbersdorf; Hamburg [red with gold and black, first photo is numbered 1604[, 2 copies; Album von Hamburg | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | Germany, H-R (18 albums in 6 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Hanover, Heidelberg, Herrenchiemsee, Jena, Leipzig, Munich, Nuremberg, Potsdam, the Rhine | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Hannover; Heidelberg [red with gold and black]; Heidelberg [small envelope]; Erinnerung am Herrenchiemsee; Album von Jena; Leipzig; München; Album München 12; München; Andenken an Nürnberg; Nürnberg Serie III; Potsdam Serie 1; Rhein; Album vom Rhein; Panorama vom Rhein: Cöln bis Mainz; Panorama des Rheines, Köln bis Mainz; Der Rhein vom Mainz bis Cöln; Neuestes Rhein-Panorama vom Mainz-Cöln | |||||||||||
| Box 8 | Germany, R-W (3 albums in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Rothenberg; Wiesbaden | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Rothenberg ob der Tauber; Album von Wiesbaden; Wiesbaden | |||||||||||
| Box 8 | Gibraltar (1 album in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Gibraltar | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Souvenir of Gibraltar | |||||||||||
| Box 8 | Iceland | ||||||||||
| Places: Iceland generally | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Native Views of Iceland | |||||||||||
| Box 8 | Ireland | ||||||||||
| Places: Ireland generally, Blarney, Cork, Dublin, Queenstown | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Album of Ireland; Album of Cork, Blarney and Queenstown; Album Dublin | |||||||||||
| Box 8 | Italy, A-G (7 albums in 4 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Assisi, Bologna, Florence, Genoa | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Assisi Ricordo della Basilica di S. Francesco; Bologna; Firenze Vedute; Ricordo di Firenze; Ricordo del Camposanto di Genova [red with gold and black]; Ricordo del Camposanto di Genova [blue with gold and black]; Ricordo di Genova | |||||||||||
| Box 9 | Italy, M-V (15 albums in 7 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Milan, Naples, Pompeii, Rome, Siena, Venice | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Ricordo di Milano; Ricordo di Milano 32 Vedute; Album=Ricordo di Napoli; Napoli 32 vedute; Ricordo di Napoli XXXII Vedute; Napoli Pompei; Ricordo di Pompei 32 Vedute; Ricordo di Roma No. 1; Ricordo di Roma III; Ricordo di Roma 30 Vedute; Ricordo di Roma 48 Vedute; Roma; Siena 20 principali vedute; Ricordo di Venezia [blue with gold]; Ricordo di Venezia [green with gold] | |||||||||||
| Box 10 | Italy, V (5 albums in 2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Venice, Verona | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Ricordo di Venezia [red with gold and black, plus 7 loose personal photographs]; Ricordo di Venezia [brown paper covers, tied]; R.R. Gallerie dell'Accademia Venezia; Souvenir de l'Hôtel d'Italie Bauer Grünwald Venise; Ricordo di Verona | |||||||||||
| Box 10 | Malta (3 albums in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Malta | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Souvenir de Malte [red paper covers]; Souvenir de Malte [faded green paper covers]; Souvenir of Malta [hard cover with photo on front] | |||||||||||
| Box 10 | Martinique (2 albums in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Fort-de-France, Martinique generally | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Fort-de-France Serie 34; Papayers de Presbytere de la Redoubte | |||||||||||
| Box 10 | Monaco (1 album in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Monaco generally | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Principaute de Monaco | |||||||||||
| Montenegro | |||||||||||
| For the Bay of Kotor, which is in modern-day Montenegro, see Yugoslavia. | |||||||||||
| Box 10 | Netherlands, A-M (8 albums in 3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Amsterdam, Haarlem, the Hague ('s Gravenhage), Marken, Middelburg | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Souvenir Amsterdam; Souvenir de la Hollande; Haarlem en Omstreken; Great Church of St. Bavo at Haarlem; Souvenir 's Gravenhage; Marken I; Marken II; Middelburg | |||||||||||
| Box 11 | Netherlands, V-Z (2 albums in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Volendam, Zeeland | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Volendam I; Zeeland I | |||||||||||
| Box 11 | Norway (3 albums in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Bergen, Dalen, Djupvand, Geiranger Fjord, Skien | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Bergen; Merok, Geirangerfjord, Djupvand; Skien-Dalen | |||||||||||
| Box 11 | Poland (2 albums in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Danzig | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Danzig; Erinnerung an Danzig's Umgegend | |||||||||||
| Box 11 | Portugal (3 albums in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| See also Spain: Wanderings in Spain and Portugal | |||||||||||
| Places: Madeira | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Madeira; Album da Ilha da Madeira; Souvenir of Madeira Album No. 1 | |||||||||||
| Box 11 | Scotland (6 albums in 4 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Boswell's | |||||||||||
| Album titles: The Cabinet Album Views of Edinburgh [blue]; The Cabinet Album Views of Edinburgh [dark green]; Views in the Edinburgh District; The Cabinet Album Views of Glasgow and International Exposition; The Cabinet Album Views of Glasgow; Dryburgh Abbey | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Scotland (1 album) | ||||||||||
| Places: Glasgow | |||||||||||
| Album titles: The "Camera" Series Album of Views of Glasgow | |||||||||||
| Box 11 | Spain (6 albums in 3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Barcelona, Malaga, Majorca, Seville, Toledo | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Barcelona; Recuerdo de Malaga; Mallorca Valldemosa Miramar Soller [includes additional loose postcards]; Sevilla II; Sevilla Monumental; Recuerdo de Toledo | |||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | Spain: Wanderings in Spain and Portugal, Volume 1 | ||||||||||
| These appear to be personal photographs taken by the Arentses. | |||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Spain: Wanderings in Spain and Portugal, Volume 2 | ||||||||||
| These appear to be personal photographs taken by the Arentses. | |||||||||||
| Box 12 | Sweden (3 albums in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Göta, Kronborg, Stockholm | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Göta Kanal; Kronborg Slot; Stockholm | |||||||||||
| Box 12 | Switzerland (14 albums albums in 7 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Switzerland generally, Berne, Engadin, Interlaken, Lake Lucerne, Oberland Bernois, Ragaz, Righi, Sächsische Schweiz, St. Moritz | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Die Schweiz; Souvenir de Berne; Ragaz-Engadin; Ober Engadin; Interlaken [text only, no photos]; Souvenir du Lac des IV Cantons, Righi, Pilate, et du St. Gothard; Album vom Berner Oberland; Oberland Bernois; Souvenir de l'Oberland Bernois; Panorama Pittoresque du Righi et du Lac des IV Cantons; Souvenir du Righi; Sächs. Schweiz; Souvenir de St. Moritz | |||||||||||
| Box 13 | Tunisia (6 albums in 2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Places: Carthage, Tunis | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Carthage; Carthage 24 Vues; Tunis [red paper covers]; Tunis Serie I [cream covers with photographs]; Tunis Serie I [medium brown covers with artists' renderings]; Tunis Serie II | |||||||||||
| Box 13 | Turkey (1 album in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Constantinople | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Vues de Constantinople No. 1 | |||||||||||
| Box 13 | United States (3 albums in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Saratoga, New York | |||||||||||
| Album titles: Picturesque Saratoga; Saratoga; Souvenir of Saratoga Springs | |||||||||||
| Box 13 | Yugoslavia (2 albums in 1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Places: Bay of Kotor, Rijeka, Opatija | |||||||||||
| Album titles: ВОКА КОТОРСКА Boka Kotorska; Fiume e Abbazia | |||||||||||