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Women -- Diaries.

 Subject
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Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

Diary of Abigail Everett Whitney 1887 to 1909: Life in a small New York State town near the Canadian border

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924092779424]
Identifier: 8447
Scope and content

Diary, transcribed, edited, and with an introduction by Virginia Duffy McLoughlin.

Dates: 2013.

Diary of Jane

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1: [Barcode: 31924094424607]
Identifier: 6153
Scope and content

The diary contains notes and comments about weekly activities, including attendance at prayer meetings, revivals, and social activities and pasttime pursuits such as reading, sewing, knitting and visiting the poor and sick. The diary also serves as a confessional.

Dates: 1832-33.

Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers from Dartington Hall

 Collection
Identifier: 3782
Abstract

Includes photocopies of correspondence with Margaret Isherwood, Eloise Elmhirst Sharman, Ellen Van Volkenberg Browne and correspondence concerning Willard Straight Hall; lecture notes, notebooks, diaries and travel journals; an inventory for the records room at Dartington Hall and a diary describing World War I by an unknown author. Also, microfilmed correspondence between Leonard K. Elmhirst and Dorothy Whitney Straight; her diaries, clippings, social appointments, notes and addresses.

Dates: 1890-1976,-1920-1958 (bulk)

Elizabeth Greene Gardiner papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2996
Abstract

Primarily letters written by Elizabeth Gardiner to members of her family and friends concerning her personal life and her professional career as a social worker and professor. Also, photographs, official identification papers, her student essays, pamphlets, poems, prayers and memorabilia; and correspondence of other family members and friends.

Dates: 1847-1968,-1910-1968 (bulk)

Elizabeth Starkweather, collector, family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1796
Scope and content

Correspondence, genealogical tables and notes, 31 diaries of Lucy King Shankland, daguerreotypes and photographs, announcements, certificates, diplomas, newspaper clippings, and other printed material, photographs, and other papers of the interrelated Ayers, Chase, Kerfoot, King, Leal, Shankland, Starkweather, and Tuttle families.

Dates: 1809-[ca. 1930]

Elsa Guerdrum Allen papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-18-1362
Abstract

Papers consist of correspondence with family members and professional colleagues; diaries; photographs and research notes on early ornithologists; a bibliography of her Ph.D. thesis; travel literature; copies of grant applications (1960-1965); unpublished manuscripts. Family papers also include a genealogy of her Scandinavian ancestors. Papers are in English, Norwegian, and Swedish.

Dates: 1885 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1968

Emily Wight Babcock Alward papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1848
Scope and content Papers primarily relate to Emily Babcock's journey to England for her marriage to Dennis R. Alward, assistant secretary of the United States Legation in London, and the couple's life in diplomatic and court circles (1865-67). Mrs. Alward's papers consist of letters to her mother, Mary Potter Babcock, in which she describes her presentation to Queen Victoria, comments on the status, personality, appearance, and costumes of the Queen, members of the royal family, English noblewomen, and...
Dates: 1806-1919.

Field family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1547
Abstract Correspondence of William R. Field, Pittstown, New York, and Mary Hyde (Field) of New York; diary of Mary Hyde; letter from James A. Garfield, Ohio, to Mary Maxon Hyde Field, acknowledging her recent letter and recalling his graduation from Williams College; autographed photograph of Garfield (1880); F.W. Field's notes on his family's acquaintance with President Garfield and on the Hyde and Field genealogies; daguerreotype (ca. 1860) of Mrs. William Field holding her infant daughter, Addie...
Dates: 1851-1881.

Green family genealogy

 Collection — Manuscript box 36 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065247276]
Identifier: 1422
Scope and content

Notes and correspondence concerning the Green family; reminiscence of the activities of a Universalist Church, and a diary of Sarah Green.

Dates: undated.

Hazel Marie Hauck papers

 Collection
Identifier: 23-14-730
Abstract Includes correspondence with former students and Cornell administrators; her Nigerian diaries and manuscript and typescript notes and statistical reports, and pamphlets concerning nutrition and disease in Thailand, Nigeria, and elsewhere; articles by Hauck concerning her work in those countries and general problems of nutrition; photographs of Thai and Nigerian children, showing the effects of malnutrition; her M.A. and Ph.D. theses ; and notes, syllabi, reading lists, and other material...
Dates: 1924-1960.