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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 LOUISE BLACK: 1920 ORIGINAL UPSTATE NEW YORK FARM DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A HARD WORKING ALL AMERICAN GIRL
ROBERT J. RUBY: 1950 SUPERB ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF HAND WRITTEN NOTES AND HAND DRAWN CHARTS, GRAPHS AND TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATIONS CREATED BY A GIFTED STUDENT OF MINING IN MICHIGAN UNKNOWN: 1920s ORIGINAL VERNACULAR PHOTO ALBUM OF THE LIFE AND TIMES IN POST WORLD WAR I CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI C. W. [CHARLIE] LANNAN: 1944 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS DETAILING ONE KENTUCKY MAN'S SERVICE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC ON A VERY ACTIVE LIBERTY SHIP
E. A. SPOFFORD: 1848 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ALMANAC AND JOURNAL CATCHALL OF A GLOUCESTER MASSACHUSETTS FISHERMAN CAMPBELL MORFIT: 1861 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK OF SCIENTIFIC FORMULATIONS HAND WRITTEN BY ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST DISTINGUISHED CHEMISTS, PROFESSORS, EDITORS AND AUTHORS W. WILTON WOOD: 1869 SUPER, ORIGINAL ALGEBRA CYPHER BOOK HAND WRITTEN BY A YOUNG LONG ISLAND MAN WHO WILL GO ON TO PROMINENCE AS A LOCAL BUSINESSMAN
JOHN ROBERTSON: 1870 - 1875 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG CENTRAL WISCONSIN FARMER WHO CHRONICLES THE TOILING AND TIMES OF A RURAL LIFE IN AMERICA'S DAIRYLAND THOMAS HOLT: 1881 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY A PROMINENT COTTON MILL OWNER AND SOON TO BE GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA GEORGE AVERY: 1884 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A VERY POLITICAL RHODE ISLAND MACHINIST, MERCHANT, OYSTERMAN AND BASS HORN PLAYER IN THE TOWN BAND
JAMES SHEERIN: 1885 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL HAND WRITTEN BY A 20 YEAR OLD ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE MAN WELL ON HIS WAY TO HARVARD, CAMBRIDGE AND THE PRIESTHOOD FRANK ?: 1893 - 1920s FASCINATING, ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES DETAILING A SOMERVILLE MASSACHUSETTS MAN'S LIFE OVER A 43 YEAR SPAN JOSEPHINE AND SHIRLEY CORNELL: 1897 - 1898 & 1899 ORIGINAL TRIO [3] OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN OF TWO [2] MASSACHUSETTS SISTERS FILLED WITH COMINGS, GOINGS AND DOINGS OF A POPULAR PAIR OF YOUNG LADIES
NAPOLEON LAMBERT: 1898 - 1907 FASCINATING ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOKS OF THE FRENCH CANADIAN BORN POLICE CHIEF OF CENTRAL FALLS RHODE ISLAND FLORA G SCHILLING: 1900 CHARMING ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A WEST CENTRAL INDIANA WOMAN AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY TAYLOR, BRAWN & FLOOD: 1900 SUPER, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK COMPILED BY A NOTED 2OO YEAR OLD NOW DEFUNCT BRITISH CHEMIST FIRM SPECIALIZING IN CORDIALS AND SPIRITS AND AMERICAN STYLE SODA POP
GRACE MERRITT: 1903 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A LOVELY UPSTATE NEW YORK WOMAN NOT IDENTIFIED: 1908 - 1911 ORIGINAL, CHATTY MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY AN ERIE PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN WHO DOES A GREAT JOB DETAILING HER LIFE AND LOCAL EVENTS GLENN FOLGER: 1910 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA GRADUATE WHO BRINGS HIS SKILLS BACK TO THE FAMILY FARM ONLY TO RETURN TO SCHOOL AND TAKE UP LAW
MARIAN PURCELL: 1910 - 1915 ORIGINAL GROUP OF FOUR [4] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HAND WRITTEN BY A YOUNG LOS ANGELES WOMAN DETAILING PRE WORLD WAR I LIFE IN LOS ANGELES UNKNOWN: 1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A ROCHESTER TO CHICOUTIMI STEAMSHIP TRIP WITH THE AWFUL BACKDROP OF WWI AND THE AUTHOR'S REFERENCE TO ONE OF CANADA'S MOST DIVISIVE ISSUES IN HISTORY FRANCIS X. MARTIN: 1918 - 1924 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN MARINE CORP RIFLE SERGEANT DURING WWI WHO WOULD GO ON TO INVESTIGATE THE LINDBERGH KIDKNAPPING AND PROTECT KINGS OF FINANCE AND THE PRINCE OF WALES
EMMA JANE SMITH: 1919 - 1921 FASCINATING POST WORLD WAR I MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A PIOUS WOMAN IN SERVICE TO A CORNWALL ENGLAND FAMILY LEWIS SZAREK: 1920s SUPER, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK HAND WRITTEN BY A MUSICALLY INCLINED MACHINIST'S MATE WHO CATALOGUED AND COMPILED POPULAR AND NAVAL SONGS FROM WWI THROUGH WWII JANE KIRKLAND GRAHAM: 1930s ORIGINAL, SIGNIFICANT HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT BOOK DEALING WITH THE ART AND CRAFT OF BOOKBINDING
NATALIE HEWLETT: 1932 THROUGH 1999 ORIGINAL, SPORADIC MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN NURSE WHO FINDS HER WAY FROM NEW YORK TO ALASKA TO MASSACHUSETTS AND BACK TO ALASKA AND BEYOND BERT A. HINDMARCH: 1923 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A VERY YOUNG BOY WHO WOULD GO ON TO TEACH AT PURDUE AMONG OTHER NOTEWORTHY ACTIVITIES CAPTAIN H. HERMAN: 1840 ORIGINAL SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A BRITISH ARMY OFFICER'S [WHO MAY VERY WELL HAVE BEEN A SPY] TOUR OF ENGLAND'S OLD FOE AT A TIME OF CHAOS AND COOPERATION
L.D. KOOP [?]: 1945 ORIGINAL, MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN ARMY OFFICER RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY OF THE COMFORTS ON A LIBERTY SHIP FOR THE RETURNING HEROES OF WWII AND THEIR GERMAN PRISONERS CHIEF PETTY OFFICER C.R. FOOKS: 1928 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SCRAPBOOK AND JOURNAL OF A SOUTH AMERICAN VOYAGE OF THE STORIED HMS AMAZON BY HER CHIEF PETTY OFFICER RUTH YOUNG: 1912 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A NEWLY ARRIVED SCOTTISH GIRL DETAILING HER TIMES IN AMERICA AND BROWN UNIVERSITY
HERBERT ALMY: 1871 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK FILLED WITH LECTURE AND STUDY NOTES ON A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS WHILE AT ONE OF AMERICA'S OLDEST INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING BETTY JEAN LENZ: 1944 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HOMEFRONT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG ALL-AMERICAN GIRL IN THE NORTH STAR STATE NOT IDENTIFIED: 1939 - 1943 ORIGINAL 5-YEAR MANUSCRIPT WWII HOMEFRONT DIARY DETAILED BY AN ACTIVE NORTH CAROLINA HOMEMAKER
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