Parts of the archive of collapsed travel giant Thomas Cook can now be viewed online.
The entire archive was acquired by Leicestershire county council in 2019, after the travel group ceased trading.
Cook began his travel company in 1841, with a one-day rail excursion from Leicester to Loughborough.
Thousands of items in the collection are now housed in Wigston at the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.
Thanks to a £40,000 grant from the National Archives, under the Archives Revealed scheme, a portion of the giant archive has been catalogued and is available to search online.
Items which can be searched for using an online catalogue include staff magazines, volumes of contracts and agreements and some of the historic travel brochures.
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Project archivist Jennifer Roach, who is leading the work to catalogue the entire archive, said: “The Thomas Cook archive is internationally significant, as it provides a detailed historical record of the man and company which created international package travel as we know it today.
“We believe it is vital that we can make the material as accessible as possible.
“We’re aiming to keep uploading records to the catalogue throughout the course of the project, with the full catalogue online and the collection available from next April when the project concludes.
“We will then showcase some of the material in the Thomas Cook Collection, highlighting the gems we have found along the way.”
The wider collection includes minute books and staff records, posters, travel guides and timetables.
It also features 60,000 photographs and souvenirs from the company’s 178-year history, including glass and china, uniforms through the ages and even a model of a Nile steamer.
The brochures make up one of the larger sections of the archive, with examples dating back to 1858 and the first continental brochures appearing from 1865.
Most of the collection dates from around 1890, with samples from nearly every year being kept, covering all varieties of destinations.