These American youths recorded detailed accounts of their trips until they returned home weeks and sometimes months later, yet their experiences and those of others like them have yet to be studied. Fifteen-year-old Clara Schiefer, sixteen-year-olds Anna Taylor and Rosalie Durrette, and nineteen-year-olds Yvonne Blue and Eleanor Winograd offered similar descriptions in their travel writing in the late 1920s and 1930s 2. Across the top of the page she wrote, « Goodbye USA » 1. A girl, presumably Victoria herself, waves goodbye to the New York City skyline as she gazes at a circular buoy with the name of the ship that would carry her to Europe: « S.S. 3 BLOWER, Brooke L., Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture Between the Worl (.)ġ As fourteen-year-old Victoria Brown set sail for Europe in 1935 she sketched a picture in her diary. 2 Clara Louise Schiefer Diary, 1933, SC 00724, Special Collections, Swem Library, College of William (.).1 I would like to thank Phillip Emanuel, David (Mac) Marquis and Nadine Zimmerli for reading drafts o (.).
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