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Teenagers--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940

 Subject
Subject Source: Lctgm

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Diary (Brooklyn, NY)

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00821
Scope and Contents Diary, 1935, of a teenage boy of Brooklyn, New York. Daily diary entries record school and leisure activities, holidays, chores performed and the occasional comment on local or national events. He mentions that his family owned a beauty parlor and observed Jewish holidays.He first attended Ultrecht High School and then transferred to Samuel J. Tilden High School. He seemed to have done well in school and enjoyed playing the violin. He mentions library visits and reading, frequent...
Dates: 1935

Sylvie Diary (New York, NY)

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01019
Scope and Contents Diary by Sylvie, written in 1931.  Cover of diary has "S.I.S." embossed on it.  Photograph of Sylvie on first page.  Cards inserted in front of diary mention Lawrence H. Guill, L. Phillips Hunt, Henry Thiel (N.C. State Raleigh) and Joseph A. Kirkman. Sylvie is ill at the beginning of the year.  She dates Joe and other "guys."  She works at Gross on occasion.  She takes a Home Economics course during night school. Diary mainly about her social life including dates,...
Dates: 1931