ENTraveler's and Writer's Sourcebook, circa January-February 1911, Number 3
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Title: Traveler's and Writer's Sourcebook, circa January-February 1911, Number 3
Creator: Poe, Clarence Hamilton, 1881-1964.
Date: 1911
Subjects: Americans--Foreign countries--Diaries; Asia--Description and travel; India--Description and travel; Kolkata (India); Agriculture--India; Cholera; Epidemics; Hinduism--India; Muslims--India; India--Religion; India--Rural conditions; Women--India;
Place: Eastern Asia; Southern Asia; Southeast Asia;
Time Period: (1900-1929) North Carolina's industrial revolution and World War One;
Description: This volume, measuring 3 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, features paper with lines in a vertical direction. Blank pages were intentionally included to show a separation of text. The first 54 pages (over a quarter of the notebook) were neither numbered nor dated by Poe. They consist of lists, notes, with references to topics such as Indian laborers, natural resources, lepers, education, and the like. He seems to have interviewed several including Mr. Elliott and Judge Goldsborough. Poe numbered the following pages as from 1 to 65. This section consists primarily of his notes on topics for his proposed Progressive Farmer articles such as crop production, Brahmins, cholera, Hindu practices (including burning of the dead and wedding processions). Three pages following page 22 are not numbered and several have been removed. In this section, there are names of contacts and proposed dates of arrival, such as Columbo (now in Sri Lanka) on February 5th, and Naples on February 19th. One topic listed is "The Colored Man in India and the Colored Man at Home." Page 26, numbered by Poe, is headed by "Benares" where he spent his 30th birthday on January 10, and corresponds somewhat with the travel diary, page 51. [Benares is also known as Varanasi, Banaras, or Kashi, and is a city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of North India.] There are several blank pages, then notes continue when the notebook is turned upside down and is read from the back forward. There are some 37 pages not numbered by Poe and these typically contain lists, names of contacts, and topics of interest. The latter includes references to cotton, Shanghai, Canton, and a list of areas of importance in India's history and status in the early 20th century: agriculture, cotton, forestry, roads and railroads, education, caste system, nationalist movement, child marriages, prices and wages, government debt, opium, health work, and so forth. [Note: Poe's steamship landed in Calcutta on January 1, 1911, and he departed India on a steamer, Buelow, on February 2, 1900.]
Rights: This item is provided courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina.
Physical Characteristics: 154 pages;
Collection: Clarence H. Poe Papers. State Archives of North Carolina
Local call no.: PC.256
MARS ID: 766
Type: Text
Language: English
Digital Collection: Travel Perspectives
Digital Format: image/jpeg
Audience: All
Repository: North Carolina Digital Collections
Source: From: Traveler's and Writer's Sourcebook, circa January-February 1911, Number 3