New York (State)--Description and travel
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Account Ledger and Diary (Upstate New York)
Hester Barrows Diaries, 1951-1980
Diaries, 1951-1980, of Hester Barrows of Fulton, New York. Diary entries include information about her daily life, her travels, weather, activities she participated in with friends, and other events.
George W. Chesbrough Diary
Diary, 1851, of George W. Chesbrough, a Methodist minister from Niagara County, New York. Concerns Chesbrough's teaching of sabbath school, preaching, and attendence at religious conferences along the Lake Erie coast. Also details the people with whom he met, primarily other ministers, Bible passages upon which he wrote sermons, and the chores he did.
Diary (New York)
Diary, 1867, of an unknown teenager in New York. Includes information on his personal life, work on a farm, lectures that he attends, and a traveling exhibition show that he joins, led by Captain G. Williams.
Julia Augusta Grassinger Diary
Horace Shepardson Diary
Diary, 1866, of Horace Shepardson of Bainbridge, New York. At the front of the volume is an 8 page printed account entitled "Memorable Events in the Secession Rebellion together with Fluctuations in the Price of Gold," which gives a timeline of events during the Civil War. There is also entries which detail Horace Shepardson's life, including his travels throughout the state, his work on farms, and singing school, among others.
Olmstead Family Diaries
William C. Somerville Diary
Diary, 1817, of [William C. Somerville ?] describing his journey from Baltimore [Md?] to Saratoga and other points in New York. The volume includes a St. Memin engraving of Somerville on the front fly-leaf.