Thomas Parkin Scrapbook, 1874-1905

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Scrapbook 1

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One volume compilation of materials by Thomas Parkin; in red cloth binding, stamped in gold "Cuttings and Notes on South America"; inner cover bears bookplate, and inner fly-leaf is inscribed "Thomas Parkin, Fairest, High Wickham, Hastings". Appears to be a scrapbook of materials copied by hand from other sources, glued-in clippings, articles, etc. and bound together in the English manner of binding manuscript and ephemera materials. Includes the following:

[6] Mss., trip itinerary, pasted in; details cities and when leaving.

[7] Map, "South America to illustrate an "Outline of its Physical Geography" by Colonel George Earl Church ... Edinburgh: Royal Geographical Society, no date. Color; folded.

[8] Map, "Mapa Comercial del Peru" por Gabriel Cueto, 1874. With hand-colored boundaries of country and departments. Folded.

[9]Map, "Plan of the Railway from Caracas to La Guayra" trimmed from a larger map; railway lines in red, mule tracks in green, rivers/tributaries in blue. Folded.

[10] Pasted-in clipping, woodcut, "Peruvian Incan's House"

[11] Mss., list of mileages from England to River Plate ...

[12- ] Blue paper, manuscript. Appears to be a compilation of facts about South America, taken from a variety of sources, and written on the pages, like a diary. Descriptions of Panama, Colobia, Peru ...

[ ] Pasted in articles from various newspapers concerning Peru and parts of South America, 1880s through 1893. Last entry in book are photographs from Galvez family, with notations by Parkin that he met them in Lima in 1907

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