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Anna Jean Snowden notebook
Collection
Identifier: SC 01856
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a composition notebook with 34 leaves of lined paper (22 pages with handwritten text), a laid-in stapled gathering of 8 leaves (6 pages with text), and a Howard University Hour Examination sheet. It was compiled by an African-American woman, Anna Jean Snowden, who attended Howard University and later taught at the Tuskegee Institute. The notebook contains her coursework at Howard and educational interests as well as her attendance at the Annual Negro Farmers'...
Dates:
1916-1918
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Bozarth Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2003.13
Scope and Contents
Business and family papers of the Bozarth family. Acc. 2003.13 Scrapbook of Mary Hockaday Bozarth, Worthy Grand Matron of the Virginia Order of the Eastern Star with a list of Matrons and Patrons from 1941 to 1942 and certificates of membership for members of the Pocahontas Chapter 103 located in Williamsburg, Virginia from 1941. Other related items in the collection is a photograph of Eastern Star women on the way to Bermuda and the Proceedings of the Grand Chapter...
Dates:
1931-1985; Majority of material found in 1931-1962
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Clyde Dofflemyer Diaries
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2012.033
Scope and Contents
Diaries, 1975-1985, of Clyde Dofflemyer of Luray, Virginia. Diaiy entries are very detailed and include blood pressure, weather, activities, people met etc.
Dates:
1975-1985
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
G. B. Keeler Diary
Collection — Container: Small Collections Box 120, Folder: 1
Identifier: SC 01755
Content Description
A hundred page handwritten diary kept by G. B. Keeler. Keeler worked and lived in Petersburg, VA. The diary contains details of his home life and mentions of his work as a contractor and mason.
Content warning for derogatory language directed towards Black individuals.
Dates:
1879 - 1887
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Anna Lou Jose Papers, 1905-1936, 1964
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2011.298
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1905-1936, of Anna Lou Jose on her trips through Europe. Includes details about the sea journey to Europe as well as details of her daily activities and places visited. Also includes information about the first three days of the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin. There is also ephemera that was tucked into one of Jose's diaries from her travels. Also includes an expense book from 1905 to 1906 as well as an undated address book. Finally, there is a diary of an unknown person, dated...
Dates:
1905-1936, 1964
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Otto A. Bley Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 00868
Scope and Contents
Papers of British Engineer Otto A. Bley, consisting of a manuscript volume (77 pp.), 1898-1902, and 31 letters and certificates, 1892-1902. The manuscript volume served both as diary and account book and pertains to mining exploits in Oregon and Washington State, documenting also the preceding journey across the Prairies to Calgary, then to Banff and Lake Louise and finally to the mines. The letters and certificates provide details of Bley's employment and service on numerous vessels in the...
Dates:
1892-1902
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Stephen Pregun Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.532
Scope and Contents
Papers of Stephen Pregun (1904-1985) of Passaic, New Jersey, including a diary, 1927-1929; a minute book for the American Rusin Falcon Chorus, New York District, Passaic Branch, 1927-1929, for which Stephen Pregun was secretary from 1928-1929; and a notepad, 1924, recording the work of a debt collector. It has not been determined if Stephen Pregun is the creator of the latter item as well. The diary is very detailed and contains daily entries regarding work, church, family (he...
Dates:
1924, 1927-1929
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Benjamin F. Walker Diaries
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2011.411
Scope and Contents
Diaries of Benjamin Franklin Walker of Bristol County, Massachusetts from 1870 - 1873 and 1875 - 1904. Includes Walker's income from all sources, including farm and shop labor, household work, as well as his expenses, such as food, clothing, musical instruments, concert tickets, and home furnishings. There are also daily entries, which include information about the weather, personal contact with a wide range of aquaintances, work done on the property, social events attended, music lessons...
Dates:
1870-1904
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center