A souvenir album kept by Miss E. M. "Beth" Osborn, recording visits to the Philippines, China, New Zealand, and Singapore between 1931-34. [Australia.] Australia,Ephemera,South East Asia

Oblong 8vo album of 20 leaves, containing numerous photographs, menus, passenger lists, newspaper cuttings, and related ephemera, annotated in pen, several of the menus signed, the album original cloth- backed paper boards titled "Snapshots" to upper board, mostly in very good condition. Elizabeth Osborn joined a party of Australian undergraduates from the universities of Queensland, Sydney and Melbourne on her Students Educational Tour Australia to the Orient in 1931-32 aboard S. S. "Taiping" of the Australian Oriental Line. The first ten leaves in this album contain photographs of the students, ten menus and passenger lists, a folding printed leaf The Torres Straits Daily Pilot (Thursday Island, December 28, 1931), and a printed menu for the Victoria Hotel, Canton. The tour visited Thursday Island, Manila, Hong Kong, Canton, and the Barron Falls in Cairns. In 1933 Osborn sailed on S.S. Mariposa from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand, with the Victorian Farmer's Tour of New Zealand. Seven leaves of the album contain more photographs, menus and postcards relating to this tour, and a small souvenir booklet lists Osborn as B. Sc. The final three leaves relate to Osborn's "Round Trip to Singapore 1933-1934", aboard S. S. Marella., and have fifteen captioned snapshots of her visit, a shipboard printing for crossing the equator, two menus, and nine real photographic postcards of Singapore.