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Collection
Identifier: SC 00220
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Letter from E.B. Chaney to his brother about his home and selling of tobacco. Location unknown. February 18,1867.
Dates:
1867 February 18
Collection
Identifier: SC 00774
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Diary, 1893, of an unknown member of the Kellogg family of Bowens Corners, New York. Includes details of their family, their tobacco farm, farming in general, visitors that they entertained, trips that they took, and other matters of daily life.
Dates:
1893
Collection
Identifier: SC 00993
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Diary of Fred Beers, a county farm agent from Martin, South Dakota. Includes information about the weather, meetings which he attends, and his daily duties as a farm agent. The volume is entitled "DeLaval Diary for county agents, extension workers, vocational teachers, and cow testers." At the end of the volume there are weights and measures, how to measure the volume of a hay stack, how to mix concrete, how to mix lye, the benefits of skim milk for humans and farm animals, common diseases...
Dates:
1937
Collection
Identifier: SC 01023
Scope and Contents
Diary, 1794-1795, of Andrew Robinson Giddinge, a farmer from Beach Hill, Massachusetts. Concerns his planting of crops, including tobacco; his extensive lumber operations; his raising, purchase, and sale of cattle and sheep; his construction of his own house; and his attention to local religious observances. There is also information about sermons to which he listened, court sessions he attended, and places to which he travels.
Dates:
1794-1795
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.240
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Diaries, 1929, 1931-1934, of the Gilkison family who lived on a farm in Broadbent, Oregon. The mother, Rena Gilkison (1894-1984) wrote most of the entries, others were done by one or several of the children, Donald, Clemmet and Kathleen. The name in the front of the diaries is given as "Ralph E." or "Ralph Eugene Wilkison and family."
The diary labeled "1928" was kept for the year 1929 and corrections to the year and sometimes weekday were made inside the diary.
The following description...
Dates:
1929, 1931-1934
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.308
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This collection contains the family papers of members of the Grigsby and Galt Families. Mary Blair Grigsby married William W. Galt in 1881. The collection contains papers of various members of the Grigsby family, particulary Hugh Blair Grigsby who was a historian and Chancellor of The College of William and Mary and his son, Hugh Carrington Grigsby who lived his entire life at the family farm, Edgehill, in Charlotte County, Virginia. The collection also contains the personal...
Dates:
1736-1982; Majority of material found in 1840-1930
Collection
Identifier: SC 00249
Scope and Contents
Note from David Johnson to Capt. Mayo Carrington suggesting that Carrington give him a check since he is going to Richmond. The reverse has notations on wheat and tobacco with names of people and money amounts. February 27, 1861.
Dates:
1861 February 27
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Af25 Oversize
Scope and Contents
Account book, 1816-1875, of Jonah H. Lupton, merchant and farmer. Included in the volume are notes on livestock, home remedies, and the birth of children. Also included are Civil War notes, 1861-1862, concerning feeding the troops, the Union occupation of Winchester on 12 March 1862, and Jackson and his men.
Dates:
1816-1875
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ab15-18
Scope and Contents
4 Account books, 1842-1888, of William Jordan, a blacksmith, merchant, carpenter, and farmer who lived in the vicinity of Rockbridge County, Va.
Dates:
1842-1888
Collection
Identifier: SC 00860
Scope and Contents
The following information was provided by the seller and has not been verified: "1913 diary of a man by the name of John P. Mason who was a tobacco farmer from Warehouse Point Connecticut. The diary full of handwritten entries for every day of the year but many of those are about his farming and rather simple entries. He also mentions several names; Joe Kellogg, Kulle, Kinbusch, Thompson, Georgia Parker, Huntley, J. R. Montgomery, Carter, Brainerd, Trombley and...
Dates:
1913
Collection
Identifier: SC 00751
Scope and Contents
Diary, 1889, of M.M. Megargall of Orangeville, Pennsylvania. Diary entries include information about Megargall's work on a farm, the weather, and other matters.
Dates:
1889
Collection
Identifier: SC 00733
Scope and Contents
Farm diary of the Moses family of Springdale, Leavenworth County, Kansas. It is not clear which family member kept the diary. On one of the last pages, the names and sometimes birth dates of Moses family members are listed: Elizabeth Luvenda Moses, Sarah Elizabeth Moses, Lewis Alfred Moses, Lizzie Moses.The following description was provided by the seller:
"The diary has a pre-printed section with a calendar for 1877, Almanac, List of U.S. Presidents and Principal Events During...
Dates:
1877
Collection
Identifier: SC 00951
Scope and Contents
Journal of Nathan P. Huckins of Door Village, La Porte County, Indiana. The entries reflect Huckins activities as farmer and blacksmith who regularly hired help, and as businessman who sold fanning mills to a large number of people.
Dates:
1843-1845
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Af15
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Purchased from The Green Bookman, Richmond, VA, September 14, 1937
Dates:
1764-1838
Collection
Identifier: MS 00166
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Papers, 1879-1915, of the Olney family of Newaygo County, Michigan. Includes letters to Bert Olney at various addresses in Indiana and Michgan, which relate school incidents and discuss political matters, such as James Garfield's presidency. There are also letters between Bert and Alice Olney and their sons, Albert J. Olney and Clinton Olney. Albert J. and Clinton Olney were both studying agriculture at (what is now) Michigan State University. The letters from their parents discuss family...
Dates:
1879-1915
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 2008.57, 2009.194, 2010.406
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Papers of Richard H. Patchin of Marlborough, Ulster County, N.Y., who was a teacher, clothing sales clerk, farmer and public lecturer. Largely includes accounts of Patchin’s daily activities and personal reflections. Correspondence and professional documents also make up a portion of the collection. The materials document Patchin’s work as a teacher, farmer, clothing sales clerk, and lecturer in and around Marlborough, New York during the mid and late 19th century. The...
Dates:
1829-1902; Majority of material found in 1860-1890
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Co5
Scope and Contents
Journal, 122 pages, of Johann C. Roehlcke, a farmer, containing a variety of information, such as how to plant and care for trees, recipes, dates of birth of his children, etc. Written in German script.
Dates:
1791-1825
Collection
Identifier: SC 00941
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1893
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.542
Scope and Contents
The Yeaman and Walker Family Collection consists mainly of correspondence and financial records of the Yeaman and Walker families, mostly relating to tobacco farming in Virginia between 1840 and 1910. The predominant locations are Pittsylvania County, Botetourt County, Charlotte County, Lynchburg, and Danville. Letters demonstrate economic stress after the Civil War, particularly as it relates to crop and livestock prices. Other topics discussed include sickness and deaths of children and...
Dates:
1836-1937; Majority of material found in 1850-1910
