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The following travelers and travel dates were drawn from the following sources:

  • Nile Notes of a Howadji by Martin R. Kalfatovic (1992)
  • "Appendix" to the American in Egypt by George Robbin Gliddon (1842)

1789
John Ledyard

1820
George Bethune English

1822
George Rapelji

1832
Col. M.J. Cohen
The Family of the late, Dr. Kirkland
Rev. Eli Smith

1833
John W. Hammersley
Ralph J. Izard
J.L. Stackpole

1834
William B. Hodgson
George Jones
John Lowell, Jr.
The Family of the late Commodore D. Patterson, U.S.N.

1836
Horatio Allen
W. McHenry Boyd
James Augustus Dorr
Richard K. Haight
Sarah (Rogers) Haight
Richard Randolph
John Lloyd Stephens

1837
Lewis Cass

1838
Henry Bard
Dudley M. Haydon
Dr. Jackson
H.P. Marshall
Valentine Mott
Henry McVickar
Rev. Dr. Edward Roberson
Samuel Waring
Rev. George Whiting

1839
William J. Bennett
Rev. S.H. Calhoun
James Ewing Cooley
H.A. Cram
F.R. Fleming
Rev. S.R. Houston
Col. H.A. Ireland
Rev. Dr. C. Lowell
Stephen Olin
George Sumner
C.R. Swords
J.I. Tucker
S.H. Whitlock
Aaron Smith Willington

1840
Farifax Catlett
Thomas Dehone
Rev. J.H. Hill
H.B. Humphrey
George Lewis
Daniel Lowe
Rev. J. May
John S. Miller
Prof. N. Moore
Edward Joy Morris
Daniel Paine
Thomas M. Preston

1841
J.O. Colt
Gen J. Harlan
C.W. King
David Millard
F. Oliver
Alexander Van Rensellaer
Clemuel Green Ricketts

1842
Rev. C.W. Andrews
John Cooke
Daniel Giraud
Jacob Giraud
John Guy Vassar

1844
John Price Durbin
Francis Schroeder

1848
William Furniss
Jesse Ames Spencer
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright

1849
Howard Crosby
George William Curtis
Matthew Flournoy Ward

1850
Caroline Paine
Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith

1851
John B. Ireland
Bayard Taylor

1852
William Cullen Bryant
Horatio Balck Hackett
Randal William MacGavock
Joseph Thomas

1853
David F. Dorr
Benjamin Dorr
Jane Anthony Eames
John Beasly Greene
Joseph Parrish Thompson
Thomas Cogswell Upham

1854
Samuel Irenæus Prime
Andrew Watson

1855
Samuel Wheelock Fiske
William Cowper Prime

1856
Warren Isham
Herman Melville
George Francis Train

1857
Benjamin Bausman
George Leighton Ditson

1859
William Mason Turner
Aaron Ward

1860
William Hoffman
Gulian Lansing

1861
David Austin Randall

1863
Edward Lord Clark

1864
Harriet Trowbridge Allen

1865
Elizabeth Rundle Charles

1866
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Charles Carleton Coffin
Harry Harewood Leech
Sylvanus Dryden Phelps
William Wilkins Warren

1867
Emily (Allen) Severance
Alvan S. Southworth
Eugene Vetromile

1868
Henry Whitney Bellows
Clara (Erskine) Clement Waters

1869
Edwin De Leon
William McEntyre Dye
Henry Martyn Harman
William Wing Loring

1870
Emerson Andrews
Charles Chaillé-Long
Louise M. (Roope) Griswold
Frederick W. Holland
Edward Dorr Griffin Prime

1871
James Brooks
Olive Risley Seward
J.J. Smith

1872
Thomas Applegate
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jacob R. Freese

1873
Samuel Colcord Bartlett
Orville Justus Bliss
Augustus Warren Edward
Augustus Hoppin
Thomas W. Knox
James Martin Peebles
George Albert Smith
John Vanderslice
Henry White Warren

1874
Thomas Gold Appleton
William Perry Fogg
Henry Bascom Ridgaway
Bayard Taylor
Charles Dudley Warner

1875
Mary E. (Galloway) Giffen
Sarah Furnas Wells

1876
Mrs. L.L. Adams
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Harriet Elizabeth (Tucker) Francis
Mrs. L.C. Lane
Charles Warner Stoddard
Ellen Hardin Walworth
G.E. Winants

1877
Eugene Russell Hendrix
Enoch Mather Marvin

1878
Elbert Eli Farman
Jesse Root Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
James Dabney McCabe
Joseph Moore, Jr.
John Russell Young

1879
Andrew Carnegie
Henry H. Gorringe
Sullivan Holman M'Collester

1880
Lucy S. Bainbridge
William Potter Davis
John A.J. Kending
George B. McClellan

1880
Charles Edwin Wilbour

1881
De Robigne Mortimer Bennett
Samuel Sullivan Cox
Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
Simon Wolf

1882
Joseph A. Boll
Walter Harriman
George Robert Salisbury

1883
Maturin Murray Ballou
John W. Greenwood

1884
Hiram Francis Fairbanks
Mary Louise (Ninde) Gamewell
John B. Gorman
Anna P. Little
John Henry Paynter
Henry Frederic Reddall
Susan Arnold (Elston) Wallace

1885
J.J. Escher
T. Holmes
Osmun Johnson
Lillian Leland
George Moerlein
George Edward Raum
Agnes Repplier

1886
Jesse Milton Emerson
Philip Phillips
D.N. Richardson

1887
Isaac Newton Lewis
Milton Stewart
Zachary Taylor Sweeney

1888
Lenamay Green
Carter Henry Harrison
Edward Herbruck
Sullivan Holman M'Collester
Clara Moyse Tadlock
Edward L. Wilson

1889
Daniel F. Beatty
Nathan Hubbell
James Pfeiffer
Charles McCormick Reeve
Peyton L. Stanton
Thomas de Witt Talmage
Elihu Vedder
Thomas Wallace
Walter Andrew Whittle

1890
Martin Brimmer
Beverly Carradine
Minna Timmins Chapman
Charles J. Gillis
Robert Pollok Kerr
Robert Meredith
Caryl S. Parrott
Milton Henry Stine
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Louisa (Stephens) Wright

1891
Edwin Holland Blashfield
Charles Thomas Walker

1892
Richard Harding Davis
Harry Clay Palmer

1893
Mary Thorn Carpenter
Eliza McMillan
Daniel Long Miller
Frederick Courtland Penfield
Edward Griffin Read

1894
James Henry Breasted
Francis Edward Clark
John F. Floyd
William Baxter Godbey
William Henry Jackson
Florida E. (Watts) Smythe
Thomas De Witt Talmage
George Cydus Tenney
Edward Stansbury Wilson

1895
George Lambert
Emilie Jane (Butterfield)
Meriman Loyson
Robert Stuart MacArthur
Archibald McLean
Daniel Long Miller
Charles Parsons
Seneca Roy Stoddard
Anthony S. Underhill

1896
Mary S. Allen
John Henry Barrows
Margaret (McDonald) Bottome
Francis Edward Clark
Sarah Diodati Gardiner
Mary Perkins Quincy

1897
Lillian Lida Bell
Charles Dana Gibson
Thomas Skelton Harrison
Lucia A. Chapman Palmer
James M. Peebles
Walter Scott Perry
Delight Sweetser

1898
Henry Adams
William McMahon

1899
Finley Acker
Mrs. Lee Bacon
Nellie Sims Beckman
Harry Westbrook Dunning
Abraham Van Doren Honeyman
Chalmers Roberts
Amos Daniel Wenger

1900
John Fisher Anderson
Suemma Coleman
Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel
Isabella H. Mathews
Minnie Stuart Crawford Ross

1901
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
William Eleazar Barton
Nahum Harwood
Sigmund Krausz
Francis I. Maule
A. Mellander
Gulian Lansing Morrill
Thomas Nelson Page
Arthur Francis Pennock
John Collinsworth Simmons

1902
Henry Fuller
James M. Loring
Harry Steele Morrison
Anthony Zurbonsen

1903
Maude Adams
George John Blatter
Mary Gorman (traveled with Maude Adams)
Edward C. Horn
Miss Ray Rockman (traveled with Maude Adams)
George Aaron Barton
Charles Chilton Moore
Mary D. (Richardson) Rosengarten
 

1904
William Sampson Brooks
Enoch Edwin Byrum
Frederick Carleton Chamberlin
William Eleroy Curtis
Thomas Medary Iden
Henry Cunningham Rew
Elliott Francis Studley
Charles Gallaudet Trumbull
Robert William Van Schoick

1905
Harry Alverson Franck
William Baxter Godbey
Jerome Alfred Hart
Edgar Watson Howe
Allie Irick
James C. Oehler
William Webb Wheeler

1906
George Ade
William Jennings Bryan
George Lister Carlisle
Patrick Cudahy
James E. Kendall

1907
Blanche Mabury Carson
Frederick Norton Finney
C. Henry Forster
Ellen Mary (Hayes) Peck
Horace A. Taylor
Marshall Pinckney Wilder

1908
Leander Adams Bigger
John Milton Gardner
Lillian C. Gilpin
Amasa Stone Mather
Mrs. Frances Elizabeth (Morgan) Matthews
Edwin William Stephens
Grace Maxine Stein
Christopher C. Young

1909
Daniel Doane Bidwell
Harriet White Fisher
Benjamin Lee Gordon
Lydia Ethel Farmer Painter
Irene Simmonds
William Spooner Smith

1910
George Hoyt Allen
George Tome Bush
Albert Charles Cosman
William Givens Frizell
Annabelle Kent
Peter August Mattson
William Ford Nichols
Theodore Roosevelt
William Webb Wheeler
Mrs. Helen Parker (Wilson) Willard

1911
Lydia Dunford Alder
Alfred Charles Benson Fletcher
Henrietta Bennett Freeman
Solomon Johnson
Angie Villette (Warren) Perkins
Milton Henry Stine
Alma (Bridwell) White

1912
Frances Gordon (Paddock) Alexander
Nettie Fowler Dietz
Charles William Elsey
George Hamlin Fitch
Arthur Wellington Hart
Gulian Lansing Morrill
Lewis Parkhurst
Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph
Charles C. Royce
C. B. Struthers
Flavel Benjamin Tiffany

1913
Acken Gordon Bradt
Mary Elizabeth Crouse
Carlton Danner Harris
Minnie Tising Norfleet
Sophie A. Poe
Frederick George Smith
Sidney J. Thomas
David Snethen Warner
Mary Frances Willard

1914
Sarah Robb Congleton
Kate Eldridge Glaspell
Joseph M. Rowland
George Fletcher Oliver

1915
Archie Bell


(above) from Karl Baedeker (Firm) Egypt and the Sūdān: Handbook for Travellers Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914.

























(above) from Martin Brimmer (1829-1896) ; Minna Timmins Chapman Egypt: Three Essays on the History, Religion and Art of Ancient Egypt Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1892.

























(above) from Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857-1934) The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt London: Thos. Cook & Son, 1901.


























(above) Egypt: Handbook for Travellers; Upper Egypt, With Nubia as Far as the Second Cataract and the Western Oases. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1892.

 

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