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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 307 Collections and/or Records:

Benjamin P. and Nola A. Young papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065355400]
Identifier: 6457
Scope and content

Ledgers, with detailed accounts of family and household expenditures, 9 volumes, 1923-1973; two scrapbooks (primarily with postcards), three travel diaries, folder of international driving licenses and automobile information, and letters home from a European tour that the Young family took in 1935; and diaries of Nola A. Young (some five-year volumes), 16 volumes, including three travel diaries, 1916-1970.

Dates: 1923-1973.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Benjamin P. and Nola A. Young papers

Benjamin Russell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2181
Scope and content Contains one volume of autobiographical material and diary entries and correspondence. Volume contains an autobiographical sketch of Russell's youth, dealing mainly with his earnest desire to become a minister despite poor health and poverty and his efforts to educated himself, and diary entries (1833-1842) concerning his theological studies, work as the Chautauqua County agent of the American Bible Society,lectures on temperance, preaching in Western New York both before and after his...
Dates: 1833-1891.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Benjamin Russell papers

Berry family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 810
Scope and content Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, genealogy, essays, photographs, accounts, church records, and other papers concerning the activities of the related Berry, Nearing, and Osborn families of Onondaga and Livingston Counties, New York. Includes correspondence relating to a smallpox epidemic, temperance meetings, prices of crops, farming conditions, the establishment of a barbed wire factory, politics, and emigration from New York to the Minnesota Territory. Also includes diaries of Mary...
Dates: 1812-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Berry family papers

Bibbens family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2153
Scope and content

Papers include copies of Bible records of the Bibbens and related families of Weedsport, New York; a report on the Bibbens family by Howard J. Finley; and a microfilmed diary of Susan Bibbens Fox, 1833-1847, mostly of religious meditations and accounts of revival meetings, with some genealogical data.

Dates: 1766-1961.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Bibbens family papers

Blodgett family diaries

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6137
Scope and content

Three diaries of Ansel and William Blodgett. Volumes 1 and 3 (1864-1865; 1869) were kept by Ansel Blodgett, and Volume 2 (1865) was kept by William Blodgett. The entries records daily farm chores and Sunday church meetings at the Christian Church at Ingleside.

Dates: 1864-1869.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Blodgett family diaries

Bower family diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064940830]
Identifier: 2501
Scope and content Typescript excerpts from the diary, January 4, 1844 - February 19, 1845, of John Bower, in which the writer mentions his daily activities, including work in a woolen mill, social visits, church attendance and the sermons preached, temperance and abolition meetings, singing school, gardening, and beekeeping. Also, scattered references to the weather, a partial genealogy of the Bower family, and an index of names appearing in the excerpts. Typescript diary, 1868, of (Joseph) Edward Bower...
Dates: 1844-1868.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Bower family diaries

Bunnell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3875
Abstract

Contains letters from Catharine Sterling Bunnell to her parents describing her activities as an archeology student and her travels in Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Also contains papers of her mother, Katherine S. Day, and sketches by Bella (Dollabella) Day.

Dates: 1887-1937.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Bunnell family papers

Burt Green Wilder papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-26-95
Abstract Diaries; notes and charts pertaining to family genealogy; clippings concerning vivisection; correspondence, photographs, and printed material pertaining to spiders, phrenology, hygiene and education, writing music, Nantucket Island, the Field family, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., temperance, natural history, Wilder's career as a medical cadet and military surgeon during the Civil War; activities of members of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry both...
Dates: 1841-1925.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Burt Green Wilder papers

C. A. Cullings diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065221933]
Identifier: 3431
Scope and content

Diaries of C.A. Cullings for the years 1891-1895, 1897-1899, 1903-1906, 1909, 1910, 1912-1914, and 1916.

Dates: 1891-1916.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / C. A. Cullings diaries

C. Beverly Davison papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3658
Scope and content Business and family papers of Clarence Beverly Davison, Millbrook, Dutchess County, New York. Business papers include materials relating to the Petroleum Investment Company, investments, securities, and tax records. Also, business records of the Millbrook Pheasant Farm, 1929-1954 and three silent films on the subject of pheasant hunting. Family papers include wills; genealogical materials; photograph negative albums; address book; land maps; photographs; diaries; and material concerning...
Dates: 1919-1978.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / C. Beverly Davison papers

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