Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Diary of Paul Eugene Nelson (1929-2003) of Phoenix, Arizona, with entries for the years 1942-1944. Nelson was an 8th grader when he began writing his diary. He records daily activities like school, church and library visits, pep band practice and leisure activities, walks to town, etc. Mentions titles of books and magazines purchased, and movies watched, and also mentions several military parades in town.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Diary of S. Agnes Kummer of Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to her life in Baltimore where S. Agnes Kummer taught school, she documents her travels within the United States, as well as to England and France. Entries are written in English for the most part with some expressions and sentences in French.The diary begins in France on an overseas trip in March 1863 and concludes with her description of a 1866 summer trip through the American Northeast into Canada.She...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Diary of Lloyd Hartman (1913-1987) of Spokane, Washington. Entries are fairly regular for the years 1937-1940 and record daily activities, weather and health. The writer mentions social outings, like visits to movies, his work at a bank and occasionally comments on the world-political situation. The diary was started in 1937 when he was in his early 20's. Each page has entries for five years but most are filled out for 1937-1940 only. Most of October's pages are blank. The...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Diary of Samuel A. Fate of Marits, which is a part of Denmark, Morrow County, Ohio. Daily entries record weather, farm chores like feeding livestock, taking cows to pasture, and others, like painting the school house, cutting ice, assisting with a funeral or an election. Fate comments on the economical difficulties of the time. Also described is a trip to the 1893 Chicago World Fair.Some accounts are listed at the back of the diary.Some of the Ohio place names...

Scope and Contents Includes trips from her hometown of Tacoma Washington to Santa Cruz, California (1927); to Republic, Washington (1928) and California in general (1934). At the start of the diary Miss Drumm (1900-1991) is a Tacoma grade school teacher. She uses this diary at three different times in her life. In 1927 she travels by bus to Santa Cruz to attend a teacher's conference. In 1928 she travels to Republic, Washington to teach school.In 1934, she again visits California, this time for an extended...