"A Short Visit South" by William George Bruce., 1921

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Photocopy of a bound book loaned for copying by Martin Bruce, 1985. The original bound book was a blue typescript, bound with photographs glued in; the cover was titled "A Visit South" and printed with the owner's name, Annie Bruce Watson. Title page reads "A Short Visit South" by William George Bruce, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1921. Photocopy, 88 leaves (on acid-free paper). With 47 B/W 5 x 7 photographs reproduced from originals in book. This book is a diary of a trip of William George Bruce who left Milwaukee by train to deliver an address before the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries meeting in New Orleans. Bruce and Monica left Milwaukee on October 22, 1921, with stopovers in Chicago. Among items discussed in the diary are comments on separate facilities for black and whites in Memphis, descriptions of New Orleans, the French Quarter, the race problem in the South; his visit to Pensacola and visits with Annie Bruce Watson, Genevieve Johnson, Bruce Watson; trips to Bruce Drydocks, the Navy Yard and hydroplanes, genealogy and story of Frederick Bruce in World War I; the Ollinger-Bruce dry docks at Bagdad, and the Watson, Bruce, and Ollinger families. Photographs are primarily family members with some interesting scenes of Pensacola, New Orleans, and the Navy Yard and hydroplane fleet [1 piece]

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