Scope and Contents This information has been provided by the seller and has not been verified: "“January 19th, Gladys and Dorothy here while their papa and mamma went to a funeral at Westfield. Bess had pt. milk. John doctored on Lizzie all day. Jud had calf at night.” “March 1st, Abby got Della’s call for 3:00. Dr. was here to see me said I had the shingles. We all to Dorothia Kellogg’s birthday supper.” “April 17th, John telephoned to Thompsonville to Brainerd. Ray and John loaded hay in A.M. and Roy took it...

Scope and Contents Sample descriptions: October 14, 1906, Nuremberg, Germany: Leaves Vienna a “beautiful, gay and interesting city” for Nuremberg, and also leaves behind Harry, her possible husband. Discusses travel customs on the German frontier. Germans nitpicky on the train and will not even open a window because they are afraid of the air. Guide leads them through Nuremberg. Sees carvings of St. Laurence at a Catholic Church. Describes Nuremberg as impressive because its oldness. Visits an old tower with...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection is the minutes of Grange Order#1019 of Lewis County, Missouri. The minute book includes business matters, procedures, committee reports, conferring of degrees and debates on issues affecting them. There are committee reports on topics such as local trade and purchase of supplies. Highlights of the minute book include the following: The Ways and Means Committee joins with other Grangers to negotiate the purchase of dry goods and groceries. Draws up article binding...

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The Baby Journal designed and compiled by S. Alice Bray of New York,  Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., 1882.  Records the progress of a child, Gwendolen Howe, from her birth in 1885 up to age two.  Handwritten entries.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The writer appears to be a female teacher at the Hamilton Avenue School in Warwick, New York. She is associated with the Reform Church. Highlights from the diary follow. Diary begins on June 15, 1930 when the writer describes her trip to Greenwood Lake with an eighth grade class and her country automobile ride with friends.  They drive past New Milford and Hamburg to Wheatsworth Cereal Company and the Old Edison Mines.  Writer calls it “good time book.” She visits...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Travel diary of Frances Evarts Clark of Washington, D.C. on a trip to Asia and Europe. Her first entry is from Honolulu, Hawaii in November, 1926. The Captain of the U.S.S. Charmont, John H. Blackburn, signed her diary along with a few fellow travelers. Near the front of the diary, she has drawn a pencil picture of a ship with flying birds and has written, "Outward Bound" and "5 December 1926, A.W.R." In December, Clark is in Guam where they quarantined because there is measles...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The following information was provided by the seller and has not been verified: "1913 diary of a man by the name of John P. Mason who was a tobacco farmer from Warehouse Point Connecticut. The diary full of handwritten entries for every day of the year but many of those are about his farming and rather simple entries. He also mentions several names; Joe Kellogg, Kulle, Kinbusch, Thompson, Georgia Parker, Huntley, J. R. Montgomery, Carter, Brainerd, Trombley and...

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A collection of eleven letters dating from 1926 to 1928 addressed to Olive Barnes from her mother, C.M. Barnes. One of these includes a letter addressed to C.M. Barnes from Mildred and Verne Barnes. Mother writes from Opportunity and Dishman, to Olive in Kewa, Newport, Pullman, and Washtuca, Washington state.

Letters include discussion of the act of writing letters, local news and acquaintances, listening to the radio, visits, and advice on Olive’s teaching career.

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A collection of eleven letters dating from 1926 to 1928 addressed to Olive Barnes from her mother, C.M. Barnes. One of these includes a letter addressed to C.M. Barnes from Mildred and Verne Barnes. Mother writes from Opportunity and Dishman, to Olive in Kewa, Newport, Pullman, and Washtuca, Washington state.

Letters include discussion of the act of writing letters, local news and acquaintances, listening to the radio, visits, and advice on Olive’s teaching career.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This information has been provided by the seller and has not been verified:"Marquette diary and daily reminder/a page a day for 1939. Handwritten with info of what this person did each day, weather, shopping etc. I have read a few pages--it is interesting. May 22 was this persons birthday--born may 22, 1862 and it's states 'I feel pretty good.' 77 years old. Pages are tight to the binding and in good condition. There are a few loose notes as to grocery shopping etc. and some...