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Diary, circa 1920s, of an unknown woman, possibily with the last name Jackson, entitled "Dates." Contains the names of men with whom she went on dates as well as some of the activities in which they participated. There is also information about the time that she would arrive home from these dates, as well as her opinion of how each of them went.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Contains an autograph album and two publications about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire that once belonged to Mary Murphy, a nurse in San Francisco during the earthquake. The publications include the book "Story of the Earthquake and Fire" by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler, published in 1906 by L. C. Osteyee containing photographs and first-hand stories of what happend during the fire. The other publication is titled "San Francisco Earthquake and Fire...Scenes Before, During and After,"...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Contains an autograph album and two publications about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire that once belonged to Mary Murphy, a nurse in San Francisco during the earthquake. The publications include the book "Story of the Earthquake and Fire" by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler, published in 1906 by L. C. Osteyee containing photographs and first-hand stories of what happend during the fire. The other publication is titled "San Francisco Earthquake and Fire...Scenes Before, During and After,"...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Diary, 1959, of Helen Mantel of Brooklyn, New York. Includes her daily activities, people with which she meets, and places that they go. It also includes a few very brief entries regarding a trip to Cuba taken in June and July of 1959, months after Fidel Castro had overthrown Fulgencio Batista. Mantel's grandmother lived in Cuba and the family took the trip because she was sick. In a couple of sentences Helen Mantel mentions seeing Batista's daughter in a restaurant, and the fact that her...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Diary, September 1942 to December 1943, of Hilda Haworth, a resident of Guernsey who, during WWII, was deported by the German army to a POW camp in Dorsten, Germany and later transferred to the POW camp Lindele in Biberach, Germany. Discusses the daily life in the camp, including food and accommodations, being separated from her children, illnesses, entertainment, different gender roles within the camp, anxiety about children who were left behind, excitement about mail, parcels from the Red...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Diary, 1922-1923, of Geraldine Toepp, an 18 year old Catholic girl from an affluent family from South Bend, Indiana. Geraldine begins each entry with the weather for the day. She regularly mentions going to church and visiting with friends. Her daily activities include sewing, shopping, reading, swimming, writing letters, attending movies, listening to records, and playing cards and other games. Geraldine spends most of her days and nights socializing.During the spring of 1922,...

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This collection consists of one album consisting of 40 black and white photographs kept by someone visiting Europe during the summer of 1936. Included in the album are photos of castles, landscapes, buildings, and the sea. There are several photographs that may have been taken in Berlin, Germany during the 1936 Olympics, including a photograph of someone waving from a car that may be Adolf Hitler. A few of the photographs have Rothenburg written on the back.