Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 235 Collections and/or Records:
Alice M. Cobb diaries
Collection — Folder S270
Identifier: S0270
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three diaries. Volume 1 begins on January 8, 1867. Volume 2, which begins August 1, 1867, has the last written page cut out. Volume 3 begins on April 1, 1868. All three diaries were written while Ms. Cobb was a student at the Baptist Institute in Indianapolis.
Dates:
1867-1868
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Alice M. Cobb diaries
Alice Perkins diary
Collection — Folder S1053
Identifier: S1053
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a personal diary of Alice Perkins in Rising Sun, Indiana, ranging from 1895/01/01 to 1895/07/09.
Dates:
1895
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Alice Perkins diary
Alva C. Griest papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0542
Scope and Contents
This collection includes from a photocopy of "Three Years in Dixie," a history of Company B, 72nd Indiana Volunteers by Alva C. Griest in Indiana ranging from 1862 to 1865.
Dates:
1862/07/26-1865/07/06
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Alva C. Griest papers
Andrew J. Johnson diary
Collection — Folder S0722
Identifier: S0722
Scope and Contents
The collection contains three copies of the typed transcript of Andrew J. Johnson's diaries, ranging form 1862 to 1865, transcribed by Ralph W. and Inez Jones Johnson from Greenwood, Indiana in 1961. The transcripts include a foreword with family history, a roster of Company I, 70th Indiana Regiment, and where the regiment served.
Dates:
1862-1865, 1961
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Andrew J. Johnson diary
Andrew R. McCurdy diary
Collection — Folder S1910
Identifier: S1910
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of a diary from Andrew R. McCurdy in Allen County, Indiana in 1870 regarding McCurdy's life and experiences.
Dates:
1870
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Andrew R. McCurdy diary
Arthur L. Strauss diary
Collection — Folder S1264
Identifier: S1264
Scope and Contents
This is a small travel diary written in pencil, about the 1908 French River trip taken by Ralph S. Norwood, Myles Sinnott, and Arthur L. Strauss. They left Indianapolis on Saturday, July 11, on the train bound for Callander, Ontario. After "a miserable hot night on the sleeper, we arrived at Buffalo." They walked across the Suspension Bridge to Canada. They took a train for Toronto, then a "steamer to Hanlon's point, one of Toronto's pleasure resorts. Sinnott and Strauss went swimming."...
Dates:
1908-1910
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Arthur L. Strauss diary
Asa E. Sample diary
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1136
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 3 folders containing a photocopy of a 117-page diary from Asa E. Sample of Knightstown, Indiana, ranging from December 9, 1862 to December 21, 1863 regarding his experiences during the Civil War as an enlisted soldier with the 54th Infantry Regiment, Company E.
Dates:
1862-1863
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Asa E. Sample diary
Asahel Clapp diary
Collection
Identifier: L032
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a photostat diary of Asahel Clapp ranging from 1819 to 1862. Topics covered in his diary include geology, botany, and local community news. The collection also includes newspaper clipping excerpts from "A Hoosier Listening Post" by Kate Milner Rabb (1930–1931).
Dates:
1819-1862
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Asahel Clapp diary
Aurelius M. Willoughby collection
Collection
Identifier: L303
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Aurelius Willoughby's Civil War diaries ranging from 1861 to 1865. Also included are discharge papers, memorabilia, and personal business papers dating from 1864 to 1917 and a manuscript history of Company H. 39th Indiana with photographs, circa 1910. The collection also includes 2 tintypes of Aurelius Willoughby, 32 cartes-de-visite depicting landmarks in Washington D.C., Georgia, and Niagra Falls, in addition to two portraits of Confederate General T. R. R. Cobb and...
Dates:
1861-1950
Benjamin F. Magee journal
Collection
Identifier: S0917
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a journal from Benjamin F. Magee in Indiana ranging from 1680 to 1905 regarding the Magee family history.
Dates:
1905
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Benjamin F. Magee journal
