Scope and Contents From the Collection: Contains diaries, 1923-1931, of Arthur and Hazel Bowley of Litchfield, Mass. Entries are often brief and discuss the weather and the events of the day. The publisher included safety hints to drivers, business forms, populations of cities and states, postal rates, a chart of weights and measures, a table of wages, various maps, insurance records, radio records, and account tables in the diary, which the authors utilized occasionally. Arthur Bowley's short entries record his travels all over...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Contains diaries, 1923-1931, of Arthur and Hazel Bowley of Litchfield, Mass. Entries are often brief and discuss the weather and the events of the day. The publisher included safety hints to drivers, business forms, populations of cities and states, postal rates, a chart of weights and measures, a table of wages, various maps, insurance records, radio records, and account tables in the diary, which the authors utilized occasionally. Arthur Bowley's short entries record his travels all over...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Contains diaries, 1923-1931, of Arthur and Hazel Bowley of Litchfield, Mass. Entries are often brief and discuss the weather and the events of the day. The publisher included safety hints to drivers, business forms, populations of cities and states, postal rates, a chart of weights and measures, a table of wages, various maps, insurance records, radio records, and account tables in the diary, which the authors utilized occasionally. Arthur Bowley's short entries record his travels all over...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Diary of Gladys Ryan written during her trip to Europe. She begins her trip on a train from Oakland, California via Chicago to New York. She sails June 25, 1929 on the Saturnia of the Casculisch line. She describes life aboard the ship. Her first stop is Algiers, then she visits Capri, Naples, Amalfi, Pompeii, Rome, Florence, Venice, Vienna, Prague (where a man in a tavern spat at her and her friend), Munich, Lucerne, Interlaken and Montreaux. She describes the tourist sites and...

Scope and Contents Some highlights from the diary: The diary begins on February 29 when Charles Ward sails for Bermuda with his parents before going to South America. Family members give him gifts before he leaves. He comments that up to March 27th, the diary was not kept regularly, but written in his cabin on the S.S. Southern Cross. After leaving his parents and Bermuda, he meets a girl, Marcia, with whom he has an on board affair which continues in Rio. Tells how she loved him (written after the affair),...

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Diary of surveyor and new father. Entries are from August 10, 1870 to September 8, 1870. Writes of working on surveying jobs in Somerville and Wakefield, MA. Writes of opening an office in Somerville. Begins with the birth of his first child, a son.

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Diary, 1866, of an unidentified teenager or young man from Tompkins Co., New York. In brief daily entries he mentions living at home, helping his father, working at the mill, going to school and to "the institute", working on the farm, and doing miscellaneous repair jobs.

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Dictation book, 1891-1892 of Frank Ryder, who attended the George Putnam School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This description was provided by the seller and has not been verified."Original 1927 handwritten diary of Norman Sartain. Norman Sartain was a student at the Palmyra School in Palmer, Texas, in the mid to late 1920s. It has 46 pages (front and back) filled with diary entries through 1928. He lisst the times each day that he arrived to school and things his teachers and classmates did. He also mentions that "Tompson's Negroes have been picking for us. I can't pick any cotton this...

Scope and Contents This description was provided by the seller and has not been verified: "July 1st, Today has lost it’s history. Who can judge of real life until experience breaks life’s mystic seals. Let the past be past and gone. May the future go down in brighter beauty and fairer realizations. Conscientious. There is an entry for every day of the year and many of those entries have to do with the school children, his farming while he’s not teaching, traveling around the countryside and of course his deep...