Box 2

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Consisting mainly of postcards, clippings, and other memorabilia of Edwin S. Gillette's Mediterranean and European tour.

Abstract Kept by Edwin S. Gillette re his trip to Jamaica. He traveled on the United Steamship Company's steamship "Admiral Schley" with William Hazlitt Smith and A.J. Brown of Ithaca, and also many others from around the U.S. The scrapbook consists mainly of photographs, postcards, and magazine clippings. Of particular interest are magazine photographs of George Rodney (Lord Rodney) commander-in-chief at Jamaica from 1771-74; basket, sugar, rum and banana laborers; the hurricane disaster of 1903 and...

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Kept by Edwin S. Gillette containing postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs and an eight page typed travel journal re his trip to Cuba. Most of the photographs were taken by William Hazlitt Smith dealing with scenes around Havana and Santiago, Cuba. Included in the photos are views of the Cabana fortress, wreck of the battleship Maine, and monuments in honor of Jose Marti, the Cuban patriot, 1853-1895.

Abstract Postcards, clippings, telegrams, one page of photographs. The letters contained in this scrapbook are from Sergeant Paul Gillette to his father, Edwin S., and his brothers, Edwin S. ("Red") and Douglas and to Art Dean (Arthur Hobson Dean, (C.U.'19.) Several letters and telegrams were sent from Fort Slocum, N.Y., Camp Greenleaf of Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, but the majority were sent from France before November 18, 1918, probably at Souilly, Meuse, while Gillette was with the Quartermaster...