Box Small Collections Box 53
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Travel Diary, 1899-1900
File — Box: Small Collections Box 53, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Travel diary of Marion Crowder Smith on her wedding trip from Los Angeles, California to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She and her husband, Hammerton Smith, begin their travel by train to Redondo, California then by steamer to San Francisco, California. They then travel across country by train, visiting Salt Lake City, Utah; areas in Colorado; St. Louis, Missouri and Cleveland, Ohio plus other towns and states. She describes the tourist attractions they visit, plus people they meet and relatives...
Dates:
1899-1900
Diary and menus, 1924 and undated
File — Box: Small Collections Box 53, Folder: 1
Identifier: id59737
Scope and Contents
Lena Pomeroy began her diary on July 31, 1924, when she was just 15
years old. It is a small one, written at the beginning of a composition book that is approximately 6" X 8" in size (15.24 cm X 20.32 cm). She numbered the pages of her diary. When she started it, she was pregnant, and going away from her home in Bartlesville to “the Mother Lee Home.” She made her last entry on December 5, 1924. The diary entries consistently show how much she missed her family. They also reflect...
Dates:
1924 and undated