Scope and Contents From the Collection: Bylaws, 1930 and meeting minutes, 1943-1948 of the medical staff of Whittacker Memorial Hospital, Newport News, Virginia. The bylaws define medical staff as medical doctors and the meetings cover all aspects of the hospital's medical services, general administration and day to day business. The meeting minutes cover a variety of business including matters related to staff and patient care. At least one reference to abortion was found by a researcher (during a class demonstration in 2/2010)....

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Bylaws, 1930 and meeting minutes, 1943-1948 of the medical staff of Whittacker Memorial Hospital, Newport News, Virginia. The bylaws define medical staff as medical doctors and the meetings cover all aspects of the hospital's medical services, general administration and day to day business. The meeting minutes cover a variety of business including matters related to staff and patient care. At least one reference to abortion was found by a researcher (during a class demonstration in 2/2010)....

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Robert Campbell lives near Reliance, Virginia in Warren County, Virginia. He is likely a high school student since he usually notes whether he attended school, which he often does not. He begins writing in November 1906 with one or two line entries of his activities, which consist of school, work, events such as butchering or marriages, visits to area towns, visits to neighbors, playing, hunting, fishing, work in the garden and church. He also gives the weather for most entries....

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Diary and commonplace book, 1841-1844, of an unidentified man, probably from the Hartford, Ct. area.  Most of the diary is taken up by summaries of about 70 sermons the author attended, interspersed with personal comments, while the last pages are filled with information on work done by author or others, mostly of agricultural nature. Most of the sermons were preached by Dr. Porter, who was probably Dr. Noah Porter, a minister of the Congregational Church in Farmington,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Time Book and Roster for the Year 1929 for L. L. Wolf. Recorded are times worked, pay, places traveled to and from, etc. Includes a few personal notes and notes on weather. The following information was provided by the seller: "He rode 34,580 miles, worked 210 days. Back of book has pages of runs of over 100 Miles, miles paid for and overtime limits; rates of pay for passenger service, freight service, local freight service, yard service; the...

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Diary of a sailor or merchant seaman for the year 1921. In brief entries that cover most of the year 1921, the author notes his different employments. Starting out from and returning several times to New Orleans, La., he stopped (among other places) in Cuba, the Bahamas, the Virgina Islands, Brazil and New York City.

He also makes notes on money borrowed.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Copybook of Lizzie Ellis Bernard of Rockwood, Orange Coounty and Petersburg, Virginia. The following description was provided by the seller: "There are several numbered pages where the writer has copied poems, lengthy essays, German language exercises, lists for home remedies, word puzzles, etc. She has also cut pages, cartoons and articles from newspapers and broadsides and glued them over existing hand-written work.... There is a newspaper piece with an image of a New Year's clock from...

Scope and Contents The following list of names from the account book was provided by the seller: "Lorenzo Dow, David Laton, Squire L. Gove, John W. Ryan, Joseph Cram, Nathan Philbrick, Thomas Saltmarsh, Samuel Aiken, Moses Clement, Samuel Dunlap, Chivey Chase, James Cutwell, Moses M. Balch, George Paige, Levi Brown, John Cobern, Andrew Philbrick, Oliver Edwards, Ephraim Eastman, Gillman M. Saltmarsh, Richard Burrow, Stephen Colby, Charles Cram, Angelo Phillips, Nathaniel Peasley, Melvina Runnels, Gardner Gove,...

Scope and Contents The following excerpts were provided by the seller: ""..... A pleasant day. Laura and Em Darling have been here all evening. Em and I played duets, Laura and Clarkie played backgammon. Dell came over and afterwards we all played croquet .... Orlin Dewey's brother is here trying to get up writing school, he is staying here tonight .... Father made candy this eve. The storm that has been gathering for the past few weeks burst in all its fury tonight ..... Marriette Goslin was buried today. I...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Diary of an unidentified member of the U.S. Army, who spent 1943-1945 in Germany as an interpreter. He describes the trip from New York City to Europe, training in England, and finally his tour of duty in the Rhineland, passing through France and Belgium on the way.German cities mentioned are Aachen, Duisburg, Muelheim and Essen. The author was accompanying a battalion of engineers and he describes their work on bridges, checking for sabotage like mines and booby traps. He also...