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Reference code
US ILfC SC/083
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Weeks Travel Slides
Date(s)
- 1960-1987 (Creation)
Extent
1 box
Name of creator
Biographical history
Francis Weeks was a longtime Highland Park, Illinois resident. He and his wife traveled extensively in the 1960s-1980s, including throughout Western Europe, Asia, parts of Africa and Peru.
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Scope and content
This collection contains colored slides from various places that Francis Weeks traveled in Western Europe, Asia, Egypt and South America between 1960 and the early 1980s. There are a great number of slides of cathedrals and museums.
Additionally, there are several slide inventories from when some of these slides were contained in Francis Weeks’ own Winnisimet Collection of slides.
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Subject access points
- Travel.
- Travel photography--20th century--Pictorial works.
- Slides (Photography)
- Museums--Europe.
- Museums--South America.
- Museums--Asia.
- Cathedrals--England.
- Cathedrals--Germany—Cologne
- Cathedrals--Italy.
- Cathedrals--Spain.
- Temples--Egypt--Abū Sunbul.
- Botanical gardens.
- Dahlias--Showing.
- Cathedrals--France.
- Cathedrals--France--Sens-sur-Yonne.
Place access points
- Sweden.
- Sens-sur-Yonne (France)
- Vézelay (France)
- Paris (France).
- France
- London (England)
- England
- Cologne (Germany)
- Spain
- Italy
- Giverny (France)
- Edinburgh (Scotland)
- Belgium.
- Barcelona (Spain)
- Java (Indonesia)
- Bangkok (Thailand)
- Bali (Indonesia)
- Singapore
- Hong Kong (China)
- Taipei (Taiwan)
- Egypt.
- Baghdad (Iraq)
- Ḥillah (Iraq)
- Machu Picchu Site (Peru)
- Lima (Peru)
Name access points
- Weeks, Francis D. (Creator)
- Orient Express (Express train) (Subject)
- Statens järnvägar (Sweden) (Subject)
- Vézelay (Abbey) (Subject)
- Musée Carnavalet. (Subject)
- Museo Picasso (Subject)
- Wat Phra Kǣo (Bangkok, Thailand) (Subject)
- Phrabō̜rommamahārātchawang (Bangkok, Thailand) (Subject)
- Gu gong bo wu yuan (China) (Subject)