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Allen, Frances: 1920 ORIGINAL, REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY THE KEEN EYED, VERY BRIGHT TEENAGE DAUGHTER OF A NOTED COVINGTON, VIRGINIA LAWYER WHO PROVIDES A LIVELY ACCOUNT AND EXCELLENT ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ROARING 20s THROUGH THE EYES OF A SMALL TOWN GIRL	ARLENE BERYL MANUEL: 1940 - 1941 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG PENNSYLVANIA GIRL WHO WAS A STUDENT AT THE SOUTHERN COLLEGE IN PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA IN ONE OF THE INSTITUTION'S FINAL YEARS	SMITH, BETTYE JO: 1940s - 1950s 13-YEAR OLD ALABAMA GIRL DELIGHTFULLY EVOLVING FROM YOUNG GIRL TO EARLY WOMANHOOD ALL THE WHILE WITH THE TERRIBLE BACKDROP OF WORLD WAR II
CHARLES GOFF: 1825 - 1828 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LEDGER OF EARLY 19TH CENTURY COMMERCE AND MARITIME ECONOMY HANDWRITTEN BY A MAIDEN LANE NEW YORK MERCHANT WHO WOULD ALSO PLAY A ROLE IN AMERICA'S GLASS INDUSTRY	UNIDENTIFIED: 1864 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A SOUTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN TOILING AWAY BUT NEVER LOSING HER JOIE DE VIVRE EVEN WITH THE DARK BACKDROP OF THE CIVIL WAR	JAHU DEWITT MILLER: 1870s ORIGINAL FORT EDWARD SEMINARY SCRAPBOOK COMPILED BY A YOUNG TEENAGE STUDENT AND BIBLIOPHILE WHO WOULD GO ON TO RUN THE LIBRARY, TEACH AND LECTURE EXTENSIVELY
UNIDENTIFIED: 1889 - 1890 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LECTURE NOTES AND 'MATERIA MEDICA' HANDWRITTEN BY A STUDENT OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE AND THEIR FOREMOST PROFESSOR	CLARENCE H. WILLIAMS: 1896 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A HARD WORKING ENTREPRENEURIAL LE ROY NEW YORK MAN	PETER MOORE Snr. ?: 1922 - 1925 + 1938 - 1939 SUPERB GROUP OF ORIGINAL PHOTO ALBUMS [5] DETAILING THE LIVES OF A BRITISH FAMILY IN MALAYA AND A WIDE LENS INTO BRITISH COLONIAL LIFE OF RUBBER PLANTATIONS, TIN MINING AND BRITISH SOCIAL LIFE IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
GERALDINE HENRY: 1929 - 1930 ORIGINAL CHARMING MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A RURAL ARKANSAS TEENAGER COMING OF AGE IN PRE DEPRESSION AMERICA	WILLIAM L. SANDER: 1931 ORIGINAL BITTERSWEET MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A CELEBRATED BUT ILL FATED ROCHESTER NEW YORK POLICE OFFICER WHO WORKS HARD, HAS A CHERISHED LIFE BUT SADLY DOESN'T MAKE IT THROUGH THE YEAR	RUTH GILBERT MCCLAIN: 1931 - 1940 ORIGINAL PAIR OF FIVE YEAR MANUSCRIPT DIARIES AND EPHEMERA HANDWRITTEN BY A CHICAGO TEENAGER DETAILING A DECADE OF DEVELOPMENT FROM YOUTH TO HARD CHARGING JOURNALIST AS SHE PLUNGES INTO SIMMERING PRE WAR EUROPE
ETTA MAY HALE: 1934 - 1938 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A TEENAGE NEBRASKA GIRL TRYING TO NAVIGATE THE TRICKY WATERS OF BOYS AND DATING AND A THOUSAND OTHER MATTERS	ULYSSES GRANT STOWELL: 1935 + 1936 ORIGINAL PAIR OF HANDWRITTEN DIARIES BY A SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON STATE FARMER AND ENTREPRENEUR	JOYCE DELUCA: 1942 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A VIVACIOUS YOUNG WOMAN WHO WORKS AT THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS IN THE HEADY CRITICAL DAYS OF FIGHTING THE NAZIS AND JAPANESE IN WWII
UNIDENTIFIED: 1932 ORIGINAL CHARMING MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A KEEN WOMAN DIARIST RECORDING HER AROUND THE WORLD OCEAN TOUR ABOARD THE NOTED AND ONE DAY STORIED CUNARD SHIP RMS FRANCONIA	M. JAY FLANNERY: 1888 - 1918 SUPER, NEAR COMPLETE ADULT LIFE ORIGINAL DIARY GROUPING OF THIRTEEN [13] NOTEBOOKS HANDWRITTEN BY AN ANTIOCH COLLEGE PROFESSOR DEDICATED TO HIS PROFESSION AND HIS COMMUNITY	MARY BETH FOLAND: 1967 SIGNIFICANT, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN WOMAN TOURING EUROPE AND THE MIDEAST AND EYEWITNESS TO THE AFTERMATH OF ISRAEL'S SMASHING VICTORY AGAINST HER SEETHING, ANTAGONISTIC NEIGHBOURS
FRED ALEXANDER, ROY PINEGAR: 1910 ORIGINAL, UNIQUE MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A PAIR OF ENGAGING YOUNG MEN HOBOING THEIR WAY ACROSS AMERICA GOING FROM ONE ADVENTURE AND ESCAPADE TO ANOTHER	JOHN FULLERTON: 1815 - 1865 SUPER, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY ONE OF HIS AND HER MAJESTY NAVY LIEUTENANTS LIVING A LIFE RIGHT OUT OF MASTER AND COMMANDER WITH SENSATIONAL ROYAL NAVY EPHEMERA: THE LT.'S OWN COURT MARTIAL FOR MURDER	GEORGE BEAUFOY: ORIGINAL 1852 LONDON DIARY - THE DIARY/JOURNAL OF GEORGE BEAUFOY RN, OWNER OF BEAUFOY VINEGAR FACTORY AND VICTORIAN ERA TYCOON OF ONE OF ENGLAND'S MOST IMPORTANT COMMODITIES
ABRAHAM FROST: 1857 - 1879 ORIGINAL PAIR OF CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO LEDGERS DETAILING THE COMMERCE AND COMMUNITY OF PRE CIVIL WAR AND BEYOND CENTRAL OHIO	HATTIE INGALLS: 1918 SUPER ORIGINAL ALBUM AND VERNACULAR PHOTO DIARY OF A YOUNG WOMAN AND HER FAMILY IN WWI ERA CARON SASKATCHEWAN	AMOS SMITH: 1894 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY AUTHORED BY AMOS SMITH, A FARMER AND A VETERAN OF THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG FROM ELLENSBURG, WASHINGTON
EDWARD STANLEY: 1874 - 1911 SUPER, ORIGINAL TYPED MANUSCRIPT MEMOIR OF A MAN FROM ARMAGH IRELAND WHO MAKES HIS PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF PIONEERING CANADA'S WEST	ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON: 1888 - 1929 FASCINATING ORIGINAL GROUP OF 15 MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY THE WIFE OF AN EDINBURGH MINISTER	UNIDENTIFED: 1802 FASCINATING ORIGINAL VERY EARLY 19th CENTURY 'ALMANACK' WITH MANUSCRIPT NOTES AND SOME ENIGMATIC CODED MESSAGES PERHAPS INDICATING SOME POST REVOLUTIONARY PARANOIA
LIDA FIELD: 1862 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A SASSY NEW JERSEY SCHOOLMARM THOUGH THE BACKDROP OF THE CIVIL WAR IS NEVER FAR AWAY	JOHN BEAL: 1873 - 1886 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AND PHOTOGRAPHIC RETROSPECTIVE MEMOIR OF A BOSTON BORN MAINE MAN	JENNIE BACON: 1886 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A HARDWORKING UPSTATE NEW YORK TEENAGE GIRL
HAYDEN J. RINGER: 1895 - 1900 SUPERB ORIGINAL TRIO OF HAND WRITTEN NOTEBOOKS DETAILING THE NITTY GRITTY JOB OF POLICING THE STREETS OF BOSTON IN THE LATE 19th CENTURY	ZOLA GRACE STRAWSER: 1909 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A TRIP TO THE SEATTLE WORLD'S FAIR BY A 14 YEAR OLD LOS ANGELES GIRL AND FAMILY	FAIRMAN R. DICK: 1919 ORIGINAL GROUP OF NOTEBOOKS AND EPHEMERA DETAILING ONE MAN'S SERVICE DURING AND AFTER WWI AND BEYOND
ROLAND D. EATON: 1930s SUPERB NOTEBOOK OF EARLY 20th CENTURY INVENTOR DETAILING HIS DOZENS OF INVENTIONS AND PATENTS MOSTLY IN THE NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES OF THE DAY THAT HAVE RESONANCE TO THIS DAY	JAMES ALLABEN: 1932 - 1944 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A MIDDLE AGED TEACHER OF THE ARMY NAVY ACADEMY IN SAN DIEGO WHO WE FOLLOW INTO HIS SENIOR YEARS	M. HENSLEY: 1936 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A KEEN EYED, WELL READ AND EDUCATED YOUNG WOMAN TEACHING IN THE BURNSVILLE AND ASHEVILLE AREA
STELLA MAE WHITE: 1940s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A 30-YR OLD HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS WOMAN WHO ENDS UP IN WILMINGTON CALIFORNIA	NOT IDENTIFIED: 1941 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK HANDWRITTEN BY A DUBLIN IRELAND ARW AIR RAID PRECAUTION WARDEN MAKING FOR THE FASCINATING PERSPECTIVE OF WWII FROM NEUTRAL IRELAND	GLORIA LEE BIGEWET: 1948 ORIGINAL, LARGE ARCHIVE OF DIARIES [2], PHOTOS AND EPHEMERA DETAILING A SENSATIONAL POST WWII EUROPEAN BICYCLE TOUR HAND WRITTEN BY A HARD CHARGING AMERICAN GIRL WHO DOES A SUPER JOB DESCRIBING ALL SHE SEES
BAINBRIDGE CRIST: 1920s - 1930s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK OF VOICE AND VOCALS HAND WRITTEN BY A RENOWNED AMERICAN COMPOSER, EDUCATOR, AUTHOR AND THEORIST	E.C. WHITE: 1890 - 1891 FASCINATING, SIGNIFICANT ORIGINAL DIARY WRITTEN BY A KEEN EYED AMERICAN ADVENTURER, BUSINESSMAN, AUTHOR AND EXPERT ON SOUTH AMERICA WHO GOES FROM THE CIVIL WAR IN CHILE TO THE RUINS OF A PYGMY CITY IN THE ANDES AND MUCH, MUCH MORE	JOHN ELLIS SHIPPAM: 1909 - 1927 ORIGINAL GROUP OF FOUR [4] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENGLISHMAN RECENTLY SETTLED WITH HIS FAMILY IN SAN DIEGO DETAILING A LIFE THROUGH THE EYES OF THOSE NEWLY ARRIVED
CHARLES EMORY MYERS: 1916 ORIGINAL, SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK HANDWRITTEN BY ONE OF AMERICA'S PIONEERS IN BOTANICAL RESEARCH AND KNOWN WORLDWIDE AS 'TOMATO MAN'	GEOFFREY WHALEN: 1920s ORIGINAL, FASCINATING MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK AND JOURNAL OF A VAUDEVILLE COMEDIAN AND VOCAL MEMBER OF THE WHITE RATS UNION OF AMERICA	SIR HENRY WIGGIN: 1896 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF NOTED BRITISH INDUSTRIALIST, PARLIAMENTARIAN AND METALLURGIST
MRS. SHELTON GRIFFIN: 1931 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DAIRY HANDWRITTEN BY A HARD WORKING COTTON PICKING FARM WIFE AND MOTHER TOILING AWAY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA	[JUDGE] RUFUS C COWING: 1854 SUPER, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG 14 YEAR OLD BOY WHO WOULD SOON GROW TO BE ONE OF NEW YORK CITY'S MOST RENOWNED JURISTS PRESIDING OVER SOME OF THE CITY'S MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMES	JOHN JAY VIETS: 1863 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL HANDWRITTEN BY A PROSPEROUS EAST GRANBY CONNECTICUT BUSINESSMAN WITH THE AWFUL BACKDROP OF THE HORRIBLE CIVIL WAR
H.A. SOMMER: 1909 ORIGINAL, SUPERB, EVENTFUL WORLD CRUISE DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A LOS ANGELES MAN WHO DOES A SUPERIOR JOB DETAILING ALL HE SEES	CARRIE C. BROWNE: 1852 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A NOTED SCHOOL FOR GIRLS PROVIDING A SUPER LOOK AT THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN PRE CIVIL WAR PENNSYLVANIA	DOROTHEA H. ENSOR: 1933 - 1961 ORIGINAL GROUP OF FOUR [4] ORIGINAL 5-YR DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A TEENAGE TO MIDDLE AGE MARYLAND WOMAN
MARY MARGARET SHIMER: 1913 - 1917 SUPER WORLD WAR I ERA ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG PENNSYLVANIA LEHIGH UNIVERSITY STUDENT AND ALL-AROUND 'GIRL-NEXT-DOOR'	WILLIAM UHLER HENSEL: 1877 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A SIGNIFICANT PENNSYLVANIA LAWYER WHO WOULD ONE DAY BE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR THE STATE AMONG OTHER NOTABLE POSITIONS OF IMPORTANCE	VIRGINIA MONTGOMERY: 1923 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG AMERICAN WOMAN ON A EUROPEAN TOUR AND MAYHAPS AN INNOCENT ABROAD OR EARLY VERSION OF AN 'UGLY' STEREOTYPE
GARY WARES: 1970s FASCINATING ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A YOUNG MAN DETERMINED TO BREAK INTO THE NEW YORK FASHION SCENE AND HIS EVENTUAL SUCCESS WITH ONE OF THE TITANS OF FASHION	MRS. RICHARD H. GOTT: 1963 - 1965 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY YOUNG AMERICAN WOMAN AND HER 'FULBRIGHTER' HUSBAND BASED IN AUSTRIA SEEING THE SIGHTS OF CROATIA, SERBIA, GREECE AND THE BALKANS	UNIDENTIFIED: 1948 - 1949 BRIEF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING LIFE IN POST WAR MILWAUKEE
GEORGE H. LANEY: 1944 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN EXUBERANT, EXCEPTIONAL KANSAS CITY HUSBAND AND FATHER OF TWO WITH THE GRIT TO SAY HE HAS THE MOST HELLISH TIME OF HIS LIFE WHO WOULDN'T HAVE MISSED A MOMENT GETTING THE WORST OF IT IN THE PACIFIC THEATER	ESTELLE MANDELBAUM, LENNY PITT [LEONARD PITT]: 1940s ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A CHARMING BRONX JEWISH GIRL TO AND FROM HER BEAU AND FUTURE NOTED HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR LENNY PITT GOING TO SCHOOL IN LOS ANGELES	U.S. ENGINEERING OFFICE: 1936 ORIGINAL DESIGN AND DRAFT STUDY OF A MAJOR US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS RESERVOIR AND DAM PROJECT
ANDRE BERNE-JOFFROY: 1950s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AND TYPED NOTES OF ONE OF FRANCE'S FOREMOST MID-20th CENTURY ART CRITICS	UNKNOWN: 1925 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF ONE AMERICAN WOMAN AND FAMILY DOING THE GRAND EUROPEAN TOUR IN GRAND STYLE	MILDRED LEMERT: 1920s ORIGINAL GROUP OF SEVEN [7] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HAND WRITTEN BY A RURAL KANSAS TEENAGER AND SOON TO BE COLLEGE GIRL
NELLIE PROCTOR: 1910 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A VERY ACTIVE, VERY SHARING SACREMENTO AREA GIRL	REV. HENRY H. HARTWELL: 1896 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A NEW HAMPSHIRE MINISTER, COMMISSION MERCHANT AND AUCTIONEER STILL GOING STRONG AT 77 YEARS OF AGE	WILLIAM ARTHUR FULKERSON: 1901 - 1920 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT CAREER LOG BOOK OF AN UNCOMMON MAN WHO RISES FROM COMMON SAILOR SERVING BELOW DECKS TO ONE DAY SERVE AS A SHIP'S CAPTAIN IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY
UNKNOWN: 1896 ORIGINAL INFORMAL MANUSCRIPT LOG OF A VOYAGE FROM NEW BRUNSWICK TO LIVERPOOL HAND WRITTEN BY A KNOWLEDGEABLE SHIP SAVVY PASSENGER	MRS. FRANK PINNEY: 1893 - 1907 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A HOMEY RURAL WIFE DETAILING LOCAL LIFE AND TIMES	JOSEPH STARR HAINES: 1874 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A WELL EDUCATED, WELL ACQUAINTED NEW HAMPSHIRE MAN WHO GRADUATED DARTMOUTH WITH DISTINCTION
PETER H. CHRISTIE: 1871 ORIGINAL FASCINATING PAIR OF MANUSCRIPTS: A HAND WRITTEN DIARY DETAILING A NEAR IDYLLIC LIFE BY THE MAN WHO PIONEERED TROUT FARMING IN AMERICA ALONG WITH A ONE PAGE TALE OF CIVIL WAR HORROR	AMERICUS MIESSE: 1870s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK OF RECIPES, REMEDIES AND MEDICAL CURES HANDWRITTEN BY A NOTABLE LIMA OHIO DOCTOR AND INVENTOR	EDWARD EVERETT LOVEJOY: 1860s SUPER, ORIGINAL PAIR OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A DEDICATED STUDENT OF THE NOTED NEWTON ENGLISH AND CLASSICAL SCHOOL
EDWARD BATES: 1859 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND LETTERS [5] HANDWRITTEN BY A WITTY, OBSERVANT AND ILL-FATED STUDENT AND FRIEND OF DR. ORONHYATEKHA AT KENYON COLLEGE DETAILING THE FIRST FEW MONTHS OF A SCHOOL YEAR HE WAS NOT TO FINISH	WILBUR A. SMITH: 1931 + 1934 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES [2] HANDWRITTEN BY A WELL ACQUAINTED ARKANSAS BUSINESSMAN WITH FINGERS IN OIL, TRANSPORTATION AND INSURANCE AND WHO SERVED HIS COUNTRY AND STATE WITH DISTINCTION	VEDDER A PETERS: 1923 INTERESTING, ORIGINAL GROUP OF FOUR [4] DIAIRES HANDWRITTEN BY AN ALBANY NEW YORK CAR SALESMAN FOR WHO THE SUN RISES AND SETS ON BUICK MOTOR CARS
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