Ella Lockwood Diary
Scope and Contents
Diary, 1874 kept by a girl in southwest Albany, New York. Ella Lockwood was 11 when she started the diary, and turned 12 on 27 August, 1874. The entry for that day reads: "Miss Ella Lockwood's birthday today. 12 years old. Went to school today, didn't get whiped [sic] either."
Her entries are brief and record the weather, school days, meals and family members' illnesses. She also records her chores, visitors to the house, work done by family members and other around the house, gifts received for holidays, trips to town, meetings attended by family members, etc.
For excerpts from the diary provided by the seller, see Box List link below.
Dates
- Creation: 1874
Creator
- Lockwood, Ella, b. 1862 (Person)
Language of Materials
English
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Biographical Information:
Extent
0.01 Linear Foot
Acquisition Information:
Purchase.
Physical Description
1 vol.
Processing Information:
Accessioned and processed in May 2009 by Ute Schechter.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Ella Lockwood Diary
- Author
- Finding Aid Authors: Ute Schechter.
- Date
- 2009-05-14
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- The collection description/finding aid is written in English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Research Center Repository