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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 307 Collections and/or Records:

Snell family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1170
Abstract

Montgomery County indentures and other legal papers; correspondence concerning the Civil War and other matters; general store accounts; diaries and weather records of Jacob G. Snell, Ephrata, New York; and Snell genealogical data.

Dates: 1766-1942.

Stewart Burnham papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 34-1-1909
Scope and content

Includes correspondence, volumes of botanical notes, plant lists for several states, index cards of plant locations, photographs, photo albums, correspondence with Anne E. Perkins (1933-1940) and Roy Latham (1901-1913), and a number of diary volumes of Stewart Henry Burnham.

Dates: 1870-1940.

Stoddard family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064932472]
Identifier: 6012
Abstract

Two diaries (1860, 1861); a poem and an essay book by Lucy Maria Stoddard, an account book by J.M. and Lucy Stoddard (1883-1899) and miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1852-1899.

Strong family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3933
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence of and biographical material concerning Frank Strong; diaries, transcript of diaries, and a scrapbook kept by his mother, Mary Foote Strong, 1902-1918; photograph album of Frank Strong's daughter, Evelyn Strong Claassen; genealogies of Frank Strong's family and of his wife, Mary Evelyn Ranson. Also, printed material concerning the University of Kansas Chancellors; photographs of John Butler Strong, Mary Foote Strong and her two sons, Frank and Otis.

Dates: 1870-1977.

Strong family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064706025]
Identifier: 489
Scope and content

Diaries and accounts of a farm family in Lynn and Prattsburg, Steuben County, New York.

Dates: 1839-1935.

Summerhill (Cayuga County, N.Y.) miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065448650]
Identifier: 855
Scope and content

Diaries of George H. Allen; accounts of a shoemaker; records of school board meetings; reports of the Sunday School Association; and Red Cross Society records.

Dates: 1862-1922.

Swift family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 19
Scope and content Letters of George L. Swift, including pictures of self and home, deeds, appraisals, bonds, mortgages, patent exam report, diary, poems, appointment in regiment of cavalry, insurance policy, notes, wills, inventory of estate, and lecture on spirit rapping. Correspondents include Job Pierce, Sabina Underwood, Hiram Swift, Herman Swift, and E.B. Swift; lithographs of H. L. Swift and W. A. Swift; and broadsides used by the Swifts to advertise their lectures on the "magnetic telegraph" and other...
Dates: 1723-1863.

Teed family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064926136]
Identifier: 2110
Scope and content

Four diaries, 1864, 1865, 1867, and 1892, of Alonzo D. Teed, Union Army soldier; one letter and receipts concerning his duties as a collector of school taxes, 1868. Also, three unidentified diaries, 1868, 1890, and 1892, of a relative or associate of Teed's; and two account books listing dry goods and other sales and purchases.

Dates: 1864-1908.

Thatcher family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3355
Scope and content Includes letters (in part, transcripts), genealogies, diaries, account books and receipts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellany of the related families of Vorhis (van Voorhees), Purdy, Patchen, Thatcher, Barrett, and Williams. Letters (1832-1839) to Steven Vorhis from father Jotham, brother Joseph, and friend David M. Underwood touch on religious problems, abolition, friends, and farming in Spencer, New York; from Stephen Vorhis, who served as minister in Akron, Ohio, as pastor of the...
Dates: 1818-1957.

Thayer Gauss diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6144
Scope and content

Records farming activities according to season; social meetings attended, including anti-slavery and temperance lectures, town meetings, library meetings and railroad meetings; church services attended at the First Congregational Church of East Bloomfield (of which he and his family were members and he a trustee); revival meetings; and family events.

Dates: 1826-1858.