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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 307 Collections and/or Records:

Victor Mitchel and Maude H. Buck diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3730
Scope and content

Diaries of Victor Mitchel Buck and Maude Mildred Hogeland (Mrs. Victor M. Buck), agricultural missionaries in Africa. Includes "Diary of a Farmboy Victor M. Buck," "Victor M. Buck Agricultural Missionary," and "Maude," all edited by Clifford M. Buck, and one diary, 1912-1919.

Dates: 1912-1957.

Violet Hunt papers

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113554673]
Identifier: 4607
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, estate records and documents, financial records and account books, drawings, photographs, research notes, publishing correspondence, clippings, book reviews, and other papers of Violet Hunt, with particular reference to her family and social relations, her publishing career, and to her book The Wife of Rossetti. Includes genealogies and others records relating to the Hunt and Hueffer families, three diaries (1914, 1918, 1919), and an address book.

Dates: 1858-1962.

Vose family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093384273]
Identifier: 8436
Scope and content

Photograph of Royden M. Vose in his automobile. Diary of Elizabeth Vose, 1945, describing events at the end of World War II, her social life, her work and her friends; photographs of Elizabeth as a young woman.

Dates: 1920 - 1945; Undated

Walter Ledyard Todd papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3167
Abstract

Correspondence files, business files, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, and printed material of Walter L. Todd relating to his business, Cornell University and alumni affairs, business dinners and meetings, and personal matters.

Dates: 1889-1970.

Washington Marsh diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064918315]
Identifier: 1004
Scope and content

Diaries describe in subjective detail his experiences in the 76th Regiment, New York Volunteers, and the 17th New York Cavalry during the Civil War, when stationed at Camp Rathbone, Albany, New York, and elsewhere. Later diaries describe the hardships of a farmer and logger on Class 1 land in Tioga County. Also, volumes of biblical texts, spelling words, and an account book.

Dates: 1861-1897.

Webb Cook Hayes diary

 Collection — Manuscript box 15 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065303566]
Identifier: 37-5-427
Scope and content

Diary of Webb C. Hayes, second son of the former President of the United States, kept while he was a freshman and sophomore at Cornell University. The diary concerns Hayes' life on the campus and stresses student activities, 1872-1874. Also copies of an 1876 Cornell Navy circular authored by Webb C. Hayes and E. O. Randall.

Dates: 1872-1874.

White family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1831
Abstract

Correspondence and papers of Hugh White, William Pierrepont White, William Mansfield White, and William Constable Pierrepont.

Dates: 1795-1922.

Willard Dickerman Straight papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1260
Abstract

Microfilmed papers of Willard D. Straight consist of personal and official correspondence, both original and typescript copies, and reports chiefly concerning his association with the Chinese Imperial Customs Service (1902-04). Documented is his employment with Reuters during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05); with the United States Department of State in Korea and Manchuria (1904-09); and with Edward H. Harriman, Jacob H. Schiff, and J.P. Morgan and Company (1904-09).

Dates: 1825-1925.

William Constable Pierrepont diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1094
Scope and content

Diaries contain day-to-day weather records and information concerning the sale of Pierrepont lands in Jefferson, Lewis, and Saint Lawrence Counties, the development of Pierrepont Manor, and periodic trips to New York City. Also, photocopies of Irving Parmeter's articles on the Pierrepont journals, 1830-1831. Includes Pierrepont's Journal THE TAMING OF THE WILDERNESS edited by Inez B. McConnell. Also, records of the Zion Episcopal Church, Pierrepont Manor, New York.

Dates: 1823-1885.

William Hull Botsford papers

 Collection
Identifier: 37-5-989
Abstract

Collection documenting the life and career of William Hull Botsford, who studied at the Cornell College of Architecture from 1907-1909. Collection includes correspondence, photographs, news clippings, diaries, scrapbooks, artifacts, and works of art. Main subjects represented in the collection are Botsford’s life, time at Cornell, career as an architect, and death in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Dates: 1904-1962