Collection SC/083 - Weeks Travel Slides

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US ILfC SC/083

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Weeks Travel Slides

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  • 1960-1987 (Creation)

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1 box

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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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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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