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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 307 Collections and/or Records:

Henry Kendall papers

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6163
Scope and content

Journal from trip to Boston as delegate from the Western Education Society (May 23-June 14, 1854); a diary (April 9, 1855-September 19, 1881); an academic notebook called an "index rerun"; his 1851 New Year's sermon; his 1855 Thanksgiving sermon; an historical sketch of the First Congregational Church of East Bloomfield, New York.

Dates: 1851-1881.

Henry N. Hinckley papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-3589
Scope and content

Travel diary, 1904; diaries, 1907, 1909; Cornell and Ithaca High School student scrapbook; architecture student notes, 1910; photograph album, 1904-1911, and loose photographs; World War I items; and biographical materials relating to Henry N. Hinckley. Also, two Civil War letters from his father, Henry L. Hinckle, and letter and envelopes relating to Noble family members.

Dates: 1863-1917.

Henry Phelps Gage papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1874
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, notes on the life of Simon Henry Gage.

Dates: 1886-1955.

Herbert David Croly papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3922
Abstract

Material used by Herbert Croly in writing his biography of Willard Straight.

Dates: [ca.1922-1924].

Herrington family Civil War diaries

 Collection — Manuscript box 39 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065248654]
Identifier: 1664
Scope and content

Diary of John M. Herrington of West Winfield, New York, concerning local daily routine and weather conditions until August, 1864 when he enlisted in the Union Army and then with military operations near Strasburg and Winchester, Virginia. Diary of Marshall J. Herrington, kept while he was encamped with the Army of the Shenandoah near Stevenson's Station, Virginia.

Dates: 1864-1865.

Hobbs family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1641
Abstract

Business records of the Nineveh carriage factory established in 1844 by Joseph W. Hobbs and operated by his two sons, George and Charles; and family correspondence. Other papers consist of records of the Afton School District No. 15, the Nineveh Sons of Temperance, the New York Road Hone Company, the Susquehanna Valley Telephone Company; and personal, financial, and business papers of Mrs. S.F. Humphreys.

Dates: [ca. 1850-1935]

Howard Orville Babcock papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-2303
Scope and content Student scrapbook, 1910-1914; student diaries, 1912-1913 (2 volumes) describing his academic and social life and some notes about current events, including the Titanic, national elections, and the Lusitania ; diary kept by Babcock from May 31 to Christmas 1918 while he served with the American Expeditionary Force in France, includes note of meeting with U.S. ace Eddie Rickenbacker, description of carnage in and around Verdun; photographs of Howard Babcock, the Cornell Law School Class of...
Dates: 1910-1971.

Howe family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6373
Abstract

Correspondence from Almon A. Jaynes to Grace Howe. WWI letters to Grace Howe from a number of soldiers. Twenty-six daily diaries of Grace Howe, 1905-1935. Photographs of Grace Howe, her sister Josephine Howe, A. A. Jaynes, among others.

Dates: 1861-1935.

Hoxie W. Smith diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924079175059]
Identifier: 3451
Scope and content

Daily diaries kept by Hoxie W. Smith discussing daily activities. Also a few loose items.

Dates: 1916-1937,-1921-1937 (bulk).

Hoyt family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1812
Abstract Scrapbooks, diaries, account books, address books, and other notebooks (40 volumes); correspondence, typescripts, notes, photographs and albums, diplomas and commissions, bills and receipts, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Charles S. Hoyt of Potter, his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Burroughs Smith of New York City, Clinton, and Utica, New York, and letters and scrapbooks of his other children, Charles S. Hoyt, Jr. and Agnes Barnum Hoyt; the correspondence,...
Dates: 1828-1956.