Portrait of Burton Holmes, Father of the Travelogue, 1946, by Fernand de Gueldre

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Elias Burton Holmes (1870–1958) was an American traveler, photographer and filmmaker, who coined the term "travelogue". Travel stories, slide shows, and motion pictures were all in existence before Holmes began his career, as was the profession of travel lecturer; but Holmes was the first person to put all of these elements together into documentary travel lectures

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Location: Chicago, Illinois
Photo credit: © Burton Holmes Archive / Alamy / Afripics
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