Elias Burton Holmes (1870â€"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.Elias Burton Holmes was born into a
middle-class Chicago family, the son of a banker. His interest in
travel was sparked at the age of nine when his grandmother took him to
hear a then-famous travel lecturer, John L. Stoddard (whom Holmes was
to meet on a subsequent trip abroad).In 1890, Holmes accompanied his
grandmother on a trip to Europe and when he returned showed slides of
his trip at the Chicago Camera Club, of which he was a member. Holmes
wrote of this event: "To take the edge off the silence, to keep the
show moving, I wrote an account of my journey and read it, as the
stereopticon man changed slides."
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.Elias Burton Holmes was born into a
middle-class Chicago family, the son of a banker. His interest in
travel was sparked at the age of nine when his grandmother took him to
hear a then-famous travel lecturer, John L. Stoddard (whom Holmes was
to meet on a subsequent trip abroad).In 1890, Holmes accompanied his
grandmother on a trip to Europe and when he returned showed slides of
his trip at the Chicago Camera Club, of which he was a member. Holmes
wrote of this event: "To take the edge off the silence, to keep the
show moving, I wrote an account of my journey and read it, as the
stereopticon man changed slides."
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