Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 218 Collections and/or Records:
Helen Clift clippings
Collection — Folder S1183
Identifier: S1183
Scope and Contents
This collection includes forty-nine clippings of Kate Milner Rabb's Indianapolis Star newspaper column, "The Hoosier Listening Post," range from March 14, 1935 to July 25, 1935 that contain transcribed entries from diaries kept by Helen Clift of New Castle, Indiana in 1863 and 1865. Helen used her diary to record her daily chores, the weather, visitors, social activities, and other happenings in New Castle. Her 1863 diary also recorded her time teaching in Economy, Wayne County, Indiana and...
Dates:
1935
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Helen Clift clippings
Henry C. Campbell diaries and papers
Collection — Folder S0210
Identifier: S0210
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four booklets, typed pages, by Henry Campbell, and one hand-drawn map of the Battle of Mossy Creek.
Dates:
1862-1864
Henry C. Leeson diaries
File — Folder S0368
Identifier: S1143
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three diaries from Henry C. Leeson of ranging from 1861 to 1864 regarding his experiences as a Union soldier during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates:
1861-1864
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry C. Leeson diaries
Henry E. Wahl collection
Collection
Identifier: L172
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters to Henry E. Wahl from his parents (1936–1945) and letters to his parent during World War II. The letters originate from Bloomington, Indiana, California, Hawaii, and the Pacific. Included are letters from Donald Wahl, a naval officer serving in the Pacific.Additionally, the collection contains a notebook with a diary of a trip from Evansville Indiana to Nashville, Tennessee in and accounts for a schoolteacher in Gibson County in 1866, as well as...
Dates:
1865-1945
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry E. Wahl collection
Henry J. Shombre collection
Collection — Folder S1180
Identifier: S1180
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photostatic copies made in 1947 of a diary kept by Henry J. Shombre while traveling to the gold fields of California in 1849. The diary entries range from March 29 to June 17th and relate Shombre's experiences traveling from Hagerstown, Indiana to Fort Laramie in Wyoming Territory by canal boat, steamboat, and wagon train. The copies were made from the original diary housed at the Kansas Historical Society. This collection also includes two photostatic...
Dates:
1849-1934
Henry W. Starr diary
Collection — Folder S1241
Identifier: S1241
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises 63 typed pages of the diary of Henry W. Starr, written in 1850, which details Starr's experiences travelling across country to join the Calilfornia Gold Rush. His entries include his observations of animals, terrain, camps, weather, food, and people.
Dates:
1850
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry W. Starr diary
Herbert L. Heller papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0630
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters, notes, clippings, and other papers from Herbert L. Heller in Indiana ranging from 1867 to 1950, including notes for his dissertation on the education of African Americans in Indiana during the 19th century, a volume of lecture notes with pasted illustrations on art history, English history, and literature from 1867, and miscellaneous primary source materials he collected during historical research on education and religion in Indiana. The documents...
Dates:
1867-1950
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Herbert L. Heller papers
Hiram A. Pratt diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1943
Scope and Contents
This collection includes four diaries of Hiram A. Pratt of Waveland, Indiana. The diaries are from 1866, 1869, 1882, and 1887 and contain entries about Pratt's daily activities and expenditures, the weather, church attendance, and news about family and friends.
Dates:
1866-1887
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hiram A. Pratt diaries
Hiram Hines papers
Collection — Folder S660
Identifier: S0661
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed, signed diaries from Hiram Hines in Indiana ranging from 1861 to 1873 regarding life as a soldier in the Civil War and afterwards.
Dates:
1861-1873
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hiram Hines papers
Hiram Matthew letters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0913
Scope and Contents
This collection includes copies of 72 letters from Hiram Matthew to his wife in the Civil War ranging from 1864 to 1865 regarding his life during the war.
Dates:
1862-1863
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hiram Matthew letters
