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Trip scrapbook album kept by Lydia McEwan Woelfle for a Mediterranean cruise in 1930. Lydia, Wellington and Olive took the trip through the James Boring tour company. The scrapbook includes a trip booklet, a list of passengers, the daily cruise bulletins, photographs, ephemera, a diary and a book on the history of the near east. Countries visited included Portugal, Morocco, Spain, Gibraltar, Algeria, Tunisia, Malta, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria [Lebanon], Palestine, Egypt, Albania, Jugo Slavia [Montenegro, Croatia], Italy, Monaco, France and England.

Snapshots likely taken by Cameron Hill while he was stationed near El Alamein, Egypt with the No. 40 Squadron of the Royal Air Force in 1942. The photographs feature Cameron Hill, fellow aircrew, local civilians, landscapes, camels, and historic landmarks such as the Great Sphinx of Giza. The photographs were likely taken near El Alamein, Egypt but may also have been taken near the cities of Giza and Cairo in Egypt as well as Malta and Gibraltar.