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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 307 Collections and/or Records:

Fred Briehl papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3474
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence with friends and family members, diaries, scrapbooks, and published materials concerning Briehl's activism, communism, socialism, agriculture, pacifism, and radical causes

Dates: 1911-1974.

Fred D. Rumsey papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2827
Scope and content

Papers of Fred D. Rumsey and his family include a Rumsey family genealogy; Dean family genealogy; correspondence; broadsides; accounts; certificates; speeches and notes; material on agriculture, the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, and the New York State Grange; photographs; diaries; Bibles with family history; publications; clippings; and memorabilia.

Dates: 1779-1967.

Fred Wallace Card papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064940749]
Identifier: 2564
Scope and content

Diary (and microfilm copy) describing studies, teaching, and research at Cornell, his later posts at University of Nebraska and its Experiment Station, at Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and about his book; also includes several pages of cash accounts, two letters from Liberty Hyde Bailey, and a photograph of Card.

Dates: 1890-1902.

Frederick A. Ogden papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938297]
Identifier: 122
Scope and content

Account book, diary of army life in the Civil War, and letters of a member of the 109th New York Volunteers.

Dates: 1849-1889.

Frost family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 238
Scope and content

Correspondence, 1889-1917, between members of the Frost family of Watkins Glen, New York, especially Robinson Frost and his mother Eva Frost while he was a student at Princeton University. Diaries of Nellie Louise Frost Winters, 1892-1962; diary of Edith B. Andrews, 1965; accounts of John Emery Frost, 1870; and expense book of Eva Frost, 1872-1877. Glass negatives of Frost family members and scenes of Watkins Glen and Trumansburg.



Dates: 1870-1965.

Gabriel family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2482
Abstract The collection includes primarily the papers of Harry S. Gabriel including letters to his mother and fiancee, Ellen Wigsten, depicting daily life before and after the armistice, written from American training camps and the French front, his war diary (October - November 1918) describing night patrols, documents relating to his military service and awards, photographs of Gabriel in uniform and of Camp Dix, New Jersey, and related printed matter, including an orientation pamphlet titled...
Dates: 1916-1925.

Garnsey family papers

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1
Identifier: 2984
Abstract Collection includes diaries, 1850-71; scrapbook about Cyrus Garnsey III and World War I, compiled by his father, Cyrus Garnsey Jr.; letters to Cyrus Garnsey and Mercy Harris Garnsey from Ira Harris, 1847-70; personal letters, clippings, and telegrams, 1917-51, collected by Cyrus Garnsey Jr. about his work with the United States Fuel Administration; estate and financial papers relating to Cyrus Garnsey Jr., Mary Woolsey Pettis and other Garnsey family members, primarily concerning Lakeholme,...
Dates: 1847-1993.

Gates and Moore family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 461
Scope and content Correspondence, accounts, and miscellany of the Gates-Moore family of Savona, Steuben County, New York. Correspondence (1847-1910) concerns Lillian Gates' and Mrs. Katherine Moore's investments in Western lands, mortgages and loans, and includes information on tenancy and land sales in Michigan, North Dakota, Illinois, and Oklahoma; also, investments in the East Lynn Railroad and other eastern enterprises. Letters of James G. Moore, consultant engineer at the U.S. Naval Base, Key West,...
Dates: 1847-1913.

George Chapman Caldwell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-8-271
Scope and content

Diaries, lecture notes, personal accounts, a thesis, photographs, and pamphlets. Includes diaries of Caldwell and his wife, and of George W. Chamberlain, his son-in-law who was a professor of architecture at Cornell; notes kept by Caldwell on Louis Agassiz's lectures; family photographs, clippings, and letters, and an elaborate set of financial accounts kept by Caldwell. Typescript of a vacation journal, 1855.



Dates: 1853-1903.

George F. Atkinson papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 51 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113562957]
Identifier: 21-29-103
Abstract

Correspondence relating to the collection, classification, and study of plant specimens; recommendations for graduate students; notes on the development of botanical investigation at Cornell; and diary of a trip to Europe. Material relating to Atkinson's work at the University of North Carolina and the Agricultural Experiment Station in Auburn, Alabama.

Dates: 1880-1918.