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The full text of Road Show–in the form of exhibtion labels–is online here: Road Show Labels (full text PDF).
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Exhibtion Sections
Road Show: Travel Papers in American Literature – Introduction Part 1
Road Show: Travel Papers in American Literature –Introduction Part 2
Fiesta: Ernest Hemingway in Pamplona, Spain
Travel Papers: Passports in Literary Archives
Black Power: Richard Wright in Accra
Paris has at last “gotten” me: Gwendolyn Bennet in France, 1925-6
To the Woods: Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond
Tender is the Night: F. Scott Fitzgerald on the French Riviera
Drive, He Said: American Writers and their Cars
Foreign Language: Erica Van Horn’s Italian Lessons
Jubilee Songs: The Fisk University Jubilee Singers on Tour
Guides to Safe Travel: African American Travel and Tourism
I best not linger here: James Baldwin in Birmingham, Alabama
Dear Ron and Pat: Letters from Joe Brainard
One Way Ticket: The Great Migration
The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz
Telegrams from the Southwest: Georgia O’Keeffe, August 1929
Hiroshima: John Hersey in Japan
Piazza San Marco, Venice: Writers & Tourists
In Cold Blood: Truman Capote in Holcomb, Kansas
An airplane is made for writers: Gertrude Stein’s First Flight, November 7, 1934
Gleanings in Europe, By an American: James Fenimore Cooper Abroad
World Tour: Blanche Matthias, 1917
The World on One Cartoon a Day: Mo Willems’s Travel Diaries
Taking Pictures in China, Eve Arnold, 1979
Pictorial Rambles on the John Muir Trail: Miniatures by Donna and Peter Thomas
6 weeks more & I’ll be home: On the Road with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
Marseille Grace: James Welch and The Heartsong of Charging Elk