Almanacs

Scope and Contents The collection consists of the following almanacs: Crusaders’ Almanac (New York), Jahne’s Medizinischer Calender (Philadelphia; in German), Hazeltine’s Pocket-Book Almanac (Warren, PA), Colgate and Co. (New York), Kazeltine’s Almanac (Warren, PA), Ayer’s American Almanac (Lowell, MA), Dr. J.H. McLean’s...

Scope and Contents This collection includes a typed letter from Esther Uhl McNitt in Indianapolis, Indiana to M. L. Moon in 1925. McNitt says she has heard through a mutual acquaintance, Kate Milner Rabb, that Moon was in possession of an almanac from 1751. McNitt encourages its donation to the Indiana State Library. At the bottom of the letter is Moon's handwritten response saying he is willing to donate the item and suggests Mrs. Rabb could handle the transmittal of the item.

Scope and Contents The collection consists mostly of almanacs and diaries of L.B. Graves, which date from 1881 to 1961. With the exception of Barker’s Illustrated Almanac, L.B. Graves used almanacs as diaries. L.B. Graves kept all diaries, except for a student diary kept by his wife. The diaries include notations of farm chores or conditions and the social obligations of Mr. and Mrs. Graves, the latter related to such activities as church attendance, the Methodist Men’s Club, a...

Scope and Contents This collection includes almanacs collected by Ralph Harvey in the United States ranging from 1838 to 1920, regarding agriculture, culture, folklore, and religion, as well as, calendar, meteorological, and astronomical information. The early almanacs are largely The Farmer's Almanac, though there are six almanacs (1848, 1850, 1854, 1856, 1857, 1864) in German, while the later almanacs are the Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack...

Scope and Contents This collection includes carbon copies of "Warrick County Historical Almanac 1948" and “Warrick County Historical Almanac 1949,” both compiled by Thomas J. Dillingham, with the 1948 almanac signed and dated November 11, 1947 and the 1949 almanac signed and dated November 30, 1948. The collection also includes a brief letter written by Dillingham on December 5, 1948 and sent to Miss Dorothy Riker at the Indiana Historical Bureau. The letter was sent with a clipping of the December 4,...