Scope and Contents From the Collection: Six diaries, 1930-1943 (with gaps) of Max R. Decker describing his life during the Great Depression and World War II. Decker is located in Buffalo, Kansas, but he and his brothers hop freight trains traveling through Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Kansas and Iowa. The diaries also describe the family searching for work and camping at various locations. The family ends up in Gaither, Arkansas. Decker joined Civilian Conservation Camp # 743 in the Ozark National Forest. The final diary describes...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Travel diary of Mrs. Thomas H. Bates of Ohio to the British Isles via the Queen Mary in an undetermined year, but post-1945. On June 8, she and her husband took the Akronite from Akron, Ohio to New York City. On June 9, they boarded the Queen Mary and traveled to England. They docked at Southampton and took the train to Hereford to a nephew's house. The couple visits her sister in Staffordshire and another sister in Wales and also visit other areas to look for her husband's family. The diary...

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Autograph diary of Susannah Nourse who was a student at Bolton Seminary in Brooklyn, New York. Most entries are poems with some prose. Many entries are by Nourse's family. A list of autographs is included with the diary.

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Letters including V-mail, 1943-1946, written to Yvonne E. DeJean of Opelousa, Louisiana from Joseph D. Prince (boyfriend) and other soldiers. Other writers are Joseph Minix, Sgt. B.J. Lewis, Pfc. Frank Brown, Raymond Stout, Harry Tyler, Killroy Car and Eddis Tyler. Most letters are personal with some mention of the war, their surroundings, and training/duties.

Scope and Contents Item 1: Notepad, 1935 Flip notepad with Miss Helen Liszka and August 13, 1935 written on the first page. The notepad includes poems, words with definitions, a list of books, reading list, accounts, draft or copy of a letter, birthdays, and addresses. Item 2: Notepad Diary, 1935-1936 Flip notepad within a cover entitled “The Handy Scratch-Pad,” June 1935 to August 1936. The notepad begins June 18, 1935 on a trip from Chicago, Illinois to Ogdensburg via Ohio and New York and a...

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Five photographs of churches and church sites in James City County, Williamsburg, and York County, possibly published in the William and Mary Quarterly. Notations on back of each photograph indicate the following locatins: Third Bruton Parish Church, Site of first York Church, Site of the first and second Charles Church, Site of the second Cheesecake Church, Grace Church, Yorktown.