Austria
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Locator = 47.516231;14.550072,Created For = Austria
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook entitled "Notes of the Geology of the Vorarlberg" by John S. Douglass, 1860-1863
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/24-0100
Scope and Contents
This is a field notebook of John Sholto Douglass (1838-1874), 15th Laird of Tilquhillie, Scottish mountaineer, naturalist and archaeologist who spent most of his life in Austria. It contains observations on geological features of the Vorarlberg region of Austria, dated from 3rd May 1860 to 6th January 1863.
3 May 1860: "Roches moutonnées", Ludesch (p. 1).
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Dates:
1860-1863
"Notgeld" albums containing small illustrated German and Austrian notes
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1861
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of two albums containing a collection of Notgeld, or 'emergency money' printed in Germany after all the low-value coins had vanished due to a shortage in metal during the inter-war period. Most notes are dating from 1921. They are called 'vouchers' rather than actual bank notes, and have an expiration date. They have very little actual monetary value: most of them are around 50 pfennige (pennies) ;...
Dates:
early 1920s