Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 235 Collections and/or Records:
Martha Elsie Pratt collection
Collection — Folder S3040
Identifier: S3040
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typescript of Martha Elsie Pratt's journal from 1886 to 1887, edited and with addendum by her daughter, Helen H. Ellis. The supplemental material to the journal is photocopied. There are also fifteen family photographs.
Dates:
1878-1893
Mary Elizabeth Seward personal account book
Collection — Folder S3269
Identifier: S3269
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal account book for Mary Elizabeth Seward with entries ranging from circa September 1926 to June 1927. A student at Arsenal Technical High School in the 1920s,
she maintained a log of her personal finances, for which she received monthly grades.
The book contains Seward’s daily expenditures, a monthly account summary, and an
itemized clothing list.
Dates:
circa 1926-1927
Mary Jennison Simpson diary
Collection — Folder S1190
Identifier: S1190
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one diary from Mary Jennison Simpson in Indiana ranging from 1882 to 1883 regarding family life, neighbors, visits with family in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and other parts of Indiana, church, and other aspects of daily life.
Dates:
1882-1883
Mary Schopp volumes
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3042
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three volumes. One is a travel diary, dated 1878 to 1920. The other two volumes are notebooks containing family information, daily notes and diary-style entries, expense listings, and poems ranging from 1864 to 1939. The entries are not in chronological order.
Dates:
1864-1939
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mary Schopp volumes
Mathias B. Collins diary
Collection — Folder S1902
Identifier: S1902
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of the diary kept by Matthias B. Collins while serving with Company I, 33rd Indiana Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. Written in an 1863 pocket diary, the entries start on January 1 in camp at Danville, Kentucky and continue through to the end of the year. Photocopies of diary were donated by Edna Eugenia (Collins) Morlan, granddaughter of Matthias Collins.
Dates:
1863
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mathias B. Collins diary
Maude Vestal collection
Collection
Identifier: L384
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection consists of Maude Vestal’s diaries (1920, 1925-1932) and papers regarding the Wendell Willkie Notification Committee (1940). The Willkie papers principally pertain to the planning of the official notification ceremony in Elwood, Indiana, on August 17, 1940. The collection also contains family and business correspondence; papers regarding her guardianship of Ann Catherine Shaffer; reports on clothing
production by Red Cross Volunteers in Anderson; and social work...
Dates:
1920-1940
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Maude Vestal collection
Milton Chamberlin diary
Collection — Folder S3101
Identifier: S3101
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a diary kept by Milton Chamberlin during a portion of his service in the 4th Ohio Cavalry, as well as photocopies of a history and roster of the regiment. The diary contains three parts: memoranda (March 2-17, 1862); company rosters (March-May 1862); and the diary itself (November 16, 1861-August 25, 1862), which can be reached by reversing the book.Chamberlin recorded in his diary information from dispatches, newspapers and rumor, although he was careful to...
Dates:
1861-1862
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Milton Chamberlin diary
Milton Mahin letter
Collection — Folder S919
Identifier: S0919
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a letter to M.Y. Mahin from Milton Mahin in Indiana from 1911/03/14 regarding manuscripts and diaries he wrote but couldn't afford to publish as well as an autobiography which was published in Tipton Tribune.
Dates:
1911-1969
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Milton Mahin letter
Minnie S. Etter papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0436
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed diary entries, photographs and mimeographed and carbon copies of short stories from Minnie S. Etter in Indiana circa 1904; undated, regarding family history and fictional stories.
Dates:
circa 1904, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Minnie S. Etter papers
Mrs. James Maresko diary
Collection — Folder S929
Identifier: S0929
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one photostat diary and account book of Mrs. James Maresko from 1874 to 1875.
Dates:
1874-1875
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mrs. James Maresko diary
