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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 242 Collections and/or Records:

John K. Benefiel collection

 Collection — Folder S0103
Identifier: S0103
Scope and Contents The collection contains a copy of the diary of John K. Benefiel, of the 46th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. The diary discussed camp life and its hardships, the weather, troop movements, the re-election of Abraham Lincoln as reflected in the vote among the regiments. Regiments from Louisiana, Maine, Iowa, Ohio, New York, and Indiana are mentioned. The diary features an index in the back with Military units, boats, persons, and places.
Dates: 1864

John L. Wiley volume

 Collection — Volume V169
Identifier: V169
Scope and Contents This collection includes a volume from John L. Wiley created around the 1820s in Indiana. It contains brief diary entries, accounting details, and pencil drawings.
Dates: circa 1820s

John M. Ray diary

 Collection — Folder S3083
Identifier: S3083
Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of the 1865 diary used by John M. Ray while serving with Company C, 47th Indiana Regiment during the U.S. Civil War. The back pages of the diary contain several miscellaneous entries ranging from circa 1865 to 1871. The collection also includes photocopies of two pages of diary entries from late December 1864 and a February 17, 1892 document signed by Shelby Ray in acknowledgement of his payment in full of his share of Levi Ray's estate.
Dates: 1864-1892

John M. Tomey diary and papers

 Collection — Folder S3002
Identifier: S3002
Scope and Contents This collection includes a photocopy of a typed transcript of the diary kept by John M. Tomey during his military service from January 1, 1864 through September 15, 1864, during the U.S. Civil War. Also included are photocopies of a map of the 27th Regiment's travels and a typescript poem, "Flags of the Twenty-Seventh" by E. R. Brown.
Dates: 1864

John McCoy collection

 Collection — Folder S2187
Identifier: S2187
Scope and Contents This collection includes "The Index to the Diary of John M'Coy of Clark County, Indiana, July 17, 1847 - April 30, 1852, compiled by Elizabeth Hayward, 1939" and "Extracts from the Diaries of John M'Coy of Clark County, Indiana, edited with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Elizabeth Hayward, Ridgewood, New Jersey, 1943." The manuscript which Ms. Hayward prepared in 1943 gives a history of the family on pages 1-5. From pages 6 to 16, she records items from John's diaries...
Dates: 1842-1943

John Prichet journals

 Collection
Identifier: L130
Scope and Contents This collection consists of three hand written journals (1849-1851) of John Prichet describing his journey from Indiana to California during the Gold Rush. His journals cover his trip from Centreville, Indiana to California by steamboat on the Ohio and Missouri rivers, and overland from Independence, Missouri to California using the Truckee River route; his life in the mining camps near Yuba City and Sacramento, California; and his return trip by ship from San Francisco through Panama, to New...
Dates: 1849-1851

John Tipton collection

 Collection
Identifier: L160
Scope and Contents The collection consists principally of Tipton’s correspondence and business papers from the period 1810-1839 in Indiana. His correspondence, including retained copies of his outgoing letters, includes letters relating to the operations of the Indiana Militia in the 1810s; and political correspondence regarding the work of the state legislature (1820s-1830s), his senatorial elections (1831, 1832), his appointments to federal office (1831-1839), and local, state, and national issues, particularly...
Dates: 1806-1858

Joseph Edward Haub diary

 Collection — Folder S2814
Identifier: S2814
Scope and Contents This collection contains the diary of Joseph Edward Haub, with entries ranging from 1901 to 1936. The early entries are written in German and the back of the diary contains addresses and biographical information about family and friends written by his wife, Katherine, in English.
Dates: 1901-1936

Joseph Jenckes journal

 Collection — Folder OB178
Identifier: OB178
Scope and Contents This collection contains the journals of Joseph Jenckes, beginning in January of 1821 and continuing through October of 1822. Jenckes includes accounts of work accomplished by hired farm hands, weather conditions, and social life in Vigo County.
Dates: 1821-1822

Joseph Marshall Francis collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2262
Scope and Contents This collection contains several items of Joseph and Kate Francis from the time they lived in Japan in the 1890s, including a letter, an unused postcard, a newspaper and several telegrams written in Japanese. A few of the items are dated, including a February 10, 1894 postcard written in English by Kate Francis and sent to Mrs. C. M. Stevens of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; a housing contract for the summer of 1896 written in Japanese; and several tickets for a charity bazaar that was held in April...
Dates: 1927