Travel diary of Mary Creamer, 1896-1903
This travel diary belonged to Mary Creamer of Philadelphia and records her travels to Niagara, Toronto, Boston, and Rumson Beach. She visited Niagara Falls on July 24, 1896 and described it as a “most wonderful and grand sight”. She also visited Three Sisters Islands and Luna Island. The following day, she took a boat from Lewiston to Toronto, where she visited St. Michael’s Cathedral and Queen’s Park, which she described as “not so very pretty”. Other sites she visited when in Niagara included the Whirlpool Rapids, Suspension Bridge, Drummondville, Clifton and Queen Victoria Park, which she described as “a beautiful place with pretty flowers”. She commented that she found “Canada a very quiet and desolate place”. After her visit to Niagara, she left for Philadelphia. She ends her journal for this trip by noting that “my vacation, three weeks and one day, but enjoyed every day of the time, and saw a good many strange places and sights and thought Niagara the most wonderful of all”.
In 1897, she visited Boston via steamboat. Her stops included many of the revolutionary locations, graveyards and churches, and Harvard University. In 1902, she made trips to Rumson Beach, where she toured the houses of the rich and famous, including Maude Adams, Vanderbilt, and Lord & Taylor. In 1903, she visits Pittsburgh, where she spends most of her time visiting friends.
