Identity area
Reference code
PTA/4/LOU
Title
LOURIE, Dora Leba (b 1888)
Date(s)
- 1914 (Creation)
Level of description
Section
Extent and medium
1 folder, Typescript document
Context area
Name of creator
(b.1888)
Biographical history
Born into a Jewish family in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1888; with her seven brothers and sisters and her parents emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, USA, as a young child; active in the fight against tuberculosis in Boston and president of the Jewish Anti-Tuberculosis Association in Boston, 1912-1913; visited Europe, 1914; married Morris Klein, an emigrant from Krakow, 1921.
Repository
Archival history
Given to the University of Westminster Archives by the author's grand-daughter in 1999.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Typed transcript of a diary, Jul-Aug 1914, written by Dora Leba Lourie, recording a trip via Liverpool to London, Paris, Switzerland, and the return via Boulogne and Folkestone, recording hotels, sights, acquaintances and impressions, and including references to the outbreak and early stages of World War One, and suffragettes at London. The trip to the continent was a tour arranged by the Polytechnic Touring Association of Regent Street Polytechnic. Also including addresses, accounts, and miscellaneous other personal notes.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Status: Open. Access is subject to signing the Regulations for Access form, unless the records are restricted under the Data Protection Act 2018 or under exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Conditions governing reproduction
Any requests to copy or publish to be referred back to depositor
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Transcribed from the original diary held by the author's grand-daughter.
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
The University of Westminster Archives also holds records relating to Polytechnic Touring Assocation.
Publication note
Extracts from the diary have been published online at: http://july1914.blogspot.com/