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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 245 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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

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

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

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: 1904, undated

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

Mrs. L. D. Temple collection

 Collection — Folder S1292
Identifier: S1292
Scope and Contents Two items are in this collection. The main item is a booklet with poems handwritten in ink. The first page gives the date of 1832. No other dates are found in the pages.

The second item is one page listing the way to count numbers from "Tens" at the top of the page and "Hundred thousand of millions" at the bottom. This is handwritten on one side of the lined paper.
Dates: 1832