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Women -- Diaries.

 Subject
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Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

Helen Brown Bothwell diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065093019]
Identifier: 4584
Scope and content

Fifty three diaries describing daily farm life, family events, and including personal accounts, in Tompkins County, New York.

Dates: 1864-1922.

Jacacks family diaries

 Collection — Manuscript box 10 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241659]
Identifier: 1566
Scope and content

Diary of Fred Jacacks, a dry goods salesman in Chicago and St. Joseph, Missouri, describing his daily routine and noting room, board, laundry, and other expenses. Three diaries of his wife, Mary, chiefly concerning domestic matters.

Dates: 1859-1868.

Karin Andreevna White papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924092110885]
Identifier: 4204
Scope and content

The Karin Andreevna White papers contain 62 volumes of personal diaries of Karin Andreevna White, 1906-1971. The collection also includes microfilmed diaries and "Album Cartoline Postale" postcard scrapbook, with stationery from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, 1899-1901, bread recipe, and laundry list.

Dates: 1906-1971.

Laura Bryant papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2112
Abstract

Papers include professional correspondence with colleagues, publishers, and others concerning textbooks; also, her teaching career in general.

Dates: [ca. 1891]-1961.

Louise Spieker Rankin papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1438
Abstract

Thirty-eight letters from Rankin mainly to her mother concerning social life, household management, and travels to India where her husband, Everett H. Rankin, was a Standard Oil representative; a notebook of information she collected on Indian trees; and her diary. Also, her unfinished biography of Liberty Hyde Bailey and a letter from Romeyn Berry.

Dates: 1937-1952.

Mary A. Hight diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 242
Scope and content

Diaries of Mary A. Hight of Bradford, Steuben County, New York. Early volumes were written while Hight was a student.

Dates: 1876-1883.

Mary Archer Knapp diary

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065480349]
Identifier: 4944
Scope and content

Diary of a Palmyra, New York wife and mother describing daily and life-long miseries, disappointments, and difficulties, with particular reference to her husband William's poor treatment and neglect. Includes clippings and financial accounts.

Dates: 1884.

Mary Beard papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2641
Abstract

Papers of Mary Beard, a nurse and writer. Collection consists primarily of diary entries recording job related activities; speeches concern public health and nursing issues.

Dates: 1926-1948.

Mary Bennett papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 121
Scope and content

Diaries, certificates, diploma, notebooks, song books, pamphlets (including one promoting anti-Mormonism), and other items of Mary Bennett of Interlaken, New York.

Dates: 1866-1874.

Mary Elizabeth Bohannon papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2424
Abstract

Notes and transcripts of 17th century English documents, diaries, account books, maps, and correspondence for her doctoral dissertation, "Studies of the Barrington Family in England During the Early Seventeenth Century," and for various later studies. There is also correspondence with Carl Becker and others concerning her research, drafts of her thesis and various articles, and photostats of the proceedings of the House of Lords for 1610 and 1614.

Dates: [ca. 1930-1963]