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Diaries

 Subject
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Found in 307 Collections and/or Records:

McNish family papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 27 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065245445]
Identifier: 754
Abstract

Families papers from Washington County, New York.

Dates: 1773-1926.

Mead family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6069
Scope and content The collection consists of 55 separate bound diaries (1850-1902, 1904-1905) written by Edwin Mead about his activities in the Presbyterian Church as an elder, trustee, and Sunday School superintendant; his observations concerning world, national, and local events; comments on lectures, social events, customs, religion, current issues, friends and relatives, and weather conditions. Also included are cash accounts in back of most of the diaries. There are also two bound diaries that were...
Dates: 1822-1905.

Michigan diaries

 Collection — Manuscript box 51 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251500]
Identifier: 2670m
Scope and content

Diary of E. L. Brown on a trip to the Michigan territory from Plymouth, Vermont through Albany, NY, across New York State, sailing over Lake Erie to Ann Arbor, Michigan and back to Vermont, 1830 (10 page typescript copy).



Dates: 1830, 1832.

Midge Wiggins diaries, 1953-1958.

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088351519]
Identifier: 6537
Scope and content

Diaries of a teenage girl in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Dates: 1953 - 1958; Undated

Mitchell and Barnes families papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3785
Abstract

Papers consist primarily of correspondence, land and other legal documents, daybooks, photographs, and clippings. Early documents largely concern the transfer and use of land in central and eastern New York.

Dates: 1791-1999.

Morrill B. Smith diary

 Collection — Volume 1: [Barcode: 31924065451415]
Identifier: 31
Scope and content

Civil War diary commenting on camp life, assignment to the ship E. Wilder Farley, participation in the battle that took Biloxi, and occupation of New Orleans.

Dates: 1861-1863.

Moses Coit Tyler collection

 Collection — Bound manuscript 48++ (index--photocopy): [Barcode: 31924117272827]
Identifier: 14-17-2641
Abstract

Diaries, lecture notes, and commonplace books by Moses Coit Tyler, and letters to him from others.

Dates: 1779-1900-(bulk 1850-1900)

Myron and Sydney A. Dawson diary and farm account book

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064941606]
Identifier: 3225
Scope and content

Diary, April 2, 1860 through August 2, 1862; and account book, December 31, 1859 through February 8, 1862, of Myron Dawson, Tioga County, New York. The diary continues in Sydney A. Dawson's name from 1873-1882.

Dates: 1860-1882.

Nancy Grey Osterud papers

 Collection — Box 67: [Barcode: 31924079173807]
Identifier: 4985
Abstract

Papers relating to the Historian in Residence Program.

Dates: 1856-1983.

Nelson A. Ogden diaries

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6178
Scope and content

Eight volumes of approximately 25 pages each covering years 1858-1863 in daily entries. Ogden recorded weather, farm chores, helping other farmers, making tiles, visitors, travel, family events and helath and deaths. Also noted are prayer meetings, services, monthly, quarterly and class meetings attended, cash accounts by month and bills payable by month with names, items and amounts.

Dates: 1858-1863.