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ECTOR O. MUNN: 1944 MASSACRE OF ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE RETOLD c1987 BY AN AMERICAN SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED FORCES MEMBER ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE ONE OF GERMANY'S MOST HEINOUS WAR CRIMES	UNKNOWN: 1818 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SHIP'S LOG DETAILING AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY 13,661 MILE VOYAGE FROM RHODE ISLAND TO INDONESIA BACK TO SANDY HOOK	CALVIN C. HALSEY: 1856 - 1859 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG MEDICAL STUDENT AND SOON TO BE PROMINENT CITIZEN OF SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA
JOSEPH CUTHBERT GANNON: 1898 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING THE PREPARATIONS BY AMERICAN NAVAL FORCES JUST BEFORE THE DECISIVE BATTLE OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SPANISH FLEET HANDWRITTEN BY A SAILOR ABOARD THE USS OREGON WHO WOULD ONE DAY PUBLISH A BOOK	ROBERT B. WRIGHT et al MEMBERS OF THE KITCHAWAU TRIBE: 1893 MANUSCRIPT LEDGER OF MINUTES, MEMBERS, MEETINGS AND PROCEDURES OF THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN SECRET FRATERNAL SOCIETY FORMED TO HONOR THE NATIVE INDIANS THAT ASSISTED THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES AGAINST ENGLAND: THE IMPROVED ORDER OF THE RED MEN	LT. SIGNALMAN ALEXANDER MCGILL: 1914 - 1919 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A ROYAL NAVY VOLUNTEER RESERVE [RNVR] SIGNALMAN DEDICATED TO HIS NEWBORN DAUGHTER WHO WOULD ONE DAY SOON ENOUGH CHERISH HER FATHER'S BRILLIANT, INTIMATE RETELLING OF HIS NAVAL SERVICE AGAINST GERMANY
COLONEL ANDREW C. COWLES et al: 1860s - 1900s LARGE ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN LETTERS TO AND FROM THE NOTED NORTH CAROLINA CONGRESSMAN, SENATOR AND HERO OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY AND HIS FAMILY	ELDER JAMES MILTON OLSEN: 1918 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING THE LAST FEW WEEKS OF HIS MORMON MISSION WORK IN NEW ZEALAND AND THE TRIP HOME	MRS. CARL ______?: 1923 + 1924 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL DETAILING THE FASCINATING AFRICAN TRAVELS OF A BRITISH WOMAN AND HER HUSBAND WHO WINTER IN NIGERIA AND TRAVEL IN THE HIGHEST OF SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND MILITARY CIRCLES
SOTIRIOS MANDRA: 1937 - 1943 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF LETTERS, NOTEBOOKS, DOCUMENTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS REVEALING THE SERVICE OF A SAILOR IN THE GREEK ROYAL NAVY PRIOR TO AND DURING WORLD WAR II	For DR. FORRIST HALEY by BL et al: 1957 - 1962 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND HISTORY OF THE CRESTLINE CALIFORNIA ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS CHAPTER FOUNDED BY FARRIS HALEY NOTED WEST COAST AA FOUNDER AND LEADER	MILDRED SOPHIA BERGFELDT: 1911 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A KANSAS CITY MISSOURI TEENAGE BEAUTY AND DAUGHTER OF A NOTED MERCHANT AND ONE DAY PARIS BASED ARTIST
ELDER ANDREW A. KERR: 1904 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND TRAVEL JOURNAL HANDWRITTEN BY 'A HATED MORMON MISSIONARY' TRYING TO BRING THE BOOK OF MORMON TO GERMANS AND THE FINAL DAYS OF HIS MISSION THERE	DR. ZACHARIAH WILLIS KEMP: 1889 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF A SUPER DIARIST AT THE START OF HIS FASCINATING LIFE, FAMILY AND CAREERS	MARGARET SAINSBURY MARIS: 1904 - 1930s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BRITISH HOME FRONT DIARY, PERSONAL CATCH-ALL AND DETAILED RETELLING OF THE TERROR OF GERMAN ZEPPELIN ATTACKS DURING WORLD WAR I
BOYNTON, MILO S: 1855 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG TORTURED AND TORMENTED STUDENT OF RELIGION BESEECHING HIS GOD TO SAVE HIM FROM HIS ENEMY - THE DEVILS TEMPTATION	IRENE SCHWARZ: 1955 ORIGINAL PHOTO ALBUM AND PHOTO DIARY OF THE MASSIVE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES' 'TRIUMPHANT KINGDOM' ASSEMBLY IN NUREMBURG GERMANY: A CELEBRATION OF JOY AT THE HOME BASE OF THE NAZIS WHO WOULD HAVE DESTROYED THEM	[PROFESSOR] RAYMOND GUSTAV HOOPS: 1934 - 1938 ORIGINAL DEPRESSION ERA MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG MAN AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS FORMIDABLE CAREER
MAXINE HADLOCK LAYTON [later JOHANSEN]: 1938 - 1942 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG GIRL DESTINED TO A LONG LIFE OF SERVING HER FAITH BY HELPING BRING THE MORMON GOSPEL WHEREVER HER CAREER ARMY OFFICER HUSBAND'S DUTY TOOK THEM	UNKNOWN: 1938 ORIGINAL DEPRESSING, DEPRESSION ERA MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG WOMAN DOING HER BEST TO HELP THE FAMILY'S FINANCES AND DIGNITY BUT ALL THE WHILE LIVING HAND TO MOUTH AND TRYING TO MAKE DO WITH PENNIES	E.H. WITHINGTON: 1942 - 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A LESS THAN ENCHANTED, CRITICAL ARMY AIR FORCE RADIOMAN FROM HONEYMOON IN QUEBEC TO THE PACIFIC THEATRE AND THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN
A.W. KENNEDY: 1849 - 1860 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT FINANCIAL DIARY AND INVESTOR'S LEDGER DETAILING THE HISTORY OF TWO SHIPS PLYING THEIR TRADE ON THE ATLANTIC	MR. E.T. MYERS: 1895 - 1900 SUPER, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A HARDWORKING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FRUIT FARMER AND ORCHARD OWNER NEAR RANCHO CUCAMONGA CALIFORNIA	SARA H. WYMOND: 1862 - 1866 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND CATCHALL OF A YOUNG BROOKLYN GIRL WHO COULD PROBABLY USED SOME COUNSELING TO HANDLE THE UPSETS IN HER LIFE
BRINLEY MORGAN HALL: 1923 ORIGINAL, CHARMING HANDWRITTEN DIARY OF A PRIVILEGED BOSTON YOUTH WHO SPENDS MOST OF HIS DAYS WITH MADEMOISELLE AND PLAYING GOLF, TENNIS, HORSEBACK RIDING AND MAH JONGG	GEORGE HOWARD SNYDER JR: 1929 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG ACTIVE STUDENT LIVING THE COMPLETE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE AT WASHINGTON AND LEE	CAROLINE LAURA RICE: 1885 ORIGINAL GROUP OF THREE [3] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY THE WIFE OF NOTED REVEREND WILLIAM RICE
WALTER B. MARTIN: 1891 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN OTTAWA CANADA STUDENT: A GIFT BOOK WITH THE THREAT 'WRITE EVERYDAY OR I WILL POUND YOU OUT'	HERMAN MULLER, MABEL MULLER, NORMAN STIENHARDT MULLER: 1916 - 1924 SUPER, ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF GERMAN AND ENGLISH LETTERS BETWEEN BERLIN AND NEW YORK RELATIVES AND FRIENDS OF ALBERT EINSTEIN	UNKNOWN: 1944 ORIGINAL GROUP OF SUB CHASER LOGS, LEDGERS AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
ENSIGN DONALD B KING, USNRF: 1918 - 1919 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR I DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENSIGN IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY RESERVE FORCE	KLAUS BREDEHOFT: 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT GERMAN NOTEBOOK DETAILING THE STUDIES, CLASSES AND LECTURES TAKEN BY A FORMER AFRIKA KORPS SOLDIER IN DETENTION IN ARKANSAS AND THEN TEXAS	THOMAS C. GATTRELL: 1944 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A PERSONABLE ALL AMERICAN BOY UNDER ATTACK BY KAMIKAZE PILOTS AND JAPANESE SUBMARINES
J. HENRY SCHINDLER JR: 1969 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND METICULOUS LOG OF AN ENGINEER CONTRACTED TO BLOW THINGS UP IN SOUTH VIETNAM	HARRIET ?: 1929 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG LOS ANGELES GIRL AND THEN AS A WOMAN NOTING THE TRAGEDIES OF HER LATER LIFE	MR. FARLENZA: 1944 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENTHUSIASTIC SHIPBUILDER EXEMPLIFYING THE CAN DO SPIRIT OF AMERICA TO BRING GERMANY TO DEFEAT
S.W. DANA: 1865 ORIGINAL CIVIL WAR ERA DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A DEDICATED DIVINITY STUDENT OF THE FAMED COOPER UNION COLLEGE A MERE FIVE YEARS AFTER THE SCHOOL WAS FOUNDED	STANLEY WADE BARON: 1950s ORIGINAL, SUPER LOOK INTO THE MIND OF A NOTED AUTHOR, POLITICAL ANALYST, ART CRITIC AND GIFTED PIANIST AS HE TRAVELS EUROPE AND AMERICA	HALLIE M. STANLEY: 1917 ORIGNAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A HARDWORKING, DEDICATED CENTRAL OHIO WOMAN
JOHN KOVAL: 1944 - 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A PERSONABLE RADIO SIGNALMAN DODGING SHRAPNEL,TORPEDOES AND JAPANESE KAMIKAZE PILOTS	DOUG, TED, MRS. MOORE et al: 1908 - 1937 ORIGINAL GROUP OF 60+ MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY SOME 'ARDENT' AND SOME MORE THAN ARDENT LOVERS TO TWO MARYLAND SISTERS AND SOME FROM MOM	UNIDENTIFIED: 1888 - 1889 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND LOG BOOK OF A LIEUTENANT ABOARD THE USS INDEPENDENCE WHILE ON AN HISTORIC SOUTH PACIFIC CRUISE DURING THE SAMOAN CIVIL WAR, THE WILCOX REBELLION AND A VISIT WITH THE KING OF HAWAII
DR HIROSHI HAGATA: 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ESSAY ON THE SUBJECT OF LEPROSY HANDWRITTEN BY A LEADING JAPANESE EXPERT IN OKINAWA AS THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN COMES TO AN END	PAUL MORAND: c1925 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF LETTERS, POSTCARDS, NOTES AND PERSONAL PAPERS OF NOTED FRENCH AUTHOR, ESSAYIST, WOMANIZER, ANTI SEMITE AND ONE DAY PUPPET OF THE VICHY GOVERNMENT	FREDERICK J. CHIVERS A.B: 1919 - 1920 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ABLE BODIED SEAMAN ON AN HISTORIC CRUISE ABOARD THE FLAGSHIP OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SPEEDING TO DANGER TO ASSIST IN THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR AND THE EVACUATION OF SMYRNA DURING THE GRECO TURKISH WAR
GREGORY MEISLER: 1939 - 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF NOTED JEWISH, POLISH OFFICER HELD A PRISONER FOR 6 YEARS BY THE NAZIS IN BAVARIA	UNKNOWN SCRIVENER: 1872 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HOMAGE TO A CHRISTIAN SAINT AND PATRON OF THE BOSTON MASONIC COMMANDRY	FLORRIE: 1889 ORIGINAL CHARMING MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG BRITISH TEENAGER LIVING IN SWITZERLAND
WILSON SCOTT NORRIS, ELIZA HUFF: 1895 - 1906 ORIGINAL GROUP OF LETTERS BY AN AGED BALTIMORE SWAIN WHO ROMANCES AND MARRIES HIS TRUE LOVE ONLY TO END UP WITH 3 CHILDREN BY ANOTHER WOMAN HE MARRIES NAMED PINK	OSCAR PARKES, BASIL LUBBOCK: Ships of the Royal Navies	l'abbe PROFESSOR P. ROURE: 1931 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND PHOTO JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO SPITSBERGEN NORWAY AND THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN LYRICALLY TOLD BY A PRIEST, PROFESSOR AND INTREPID TRAVELLER
HARRY VAN ZANT: 1877 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A NEW YORK MAN WHO TRAVELS BETWEEN CITIES TO SELL HIS GOODS AND TRAVELS BETWEEN MORAL COMPASS POINTS CHAMPIONING HIS FIDELITY TO HIS GIRLFRIEND WHILE HE MAKES THE ODD DRUNKEN VISIT TO A HOUSE OF ILL REPUTE	LOUIS GOETH DREYFUS, JR: 1916 ORIGINAL, SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN DIPLOMAT AT THE EUROPEAN CENTER OF WORLD CONFLICT CAREFULLY OBSERVING THE POLITICS, STRATEGICS AND PRETTY GIRLS OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE	F.A. ANDERSON, YEOMAN USN: 1918 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A NAVY YEOMAN ENJOYING PHILADELPHIA'S SIGHTS AND TRYING TO STAY FREE OF THE FLU
MRS. ERNEST PRATT ?: 1909 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AND PHOTOGRAPHIC TRAVEL DIARY OF AN EXTENDED TRIP TO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE	GEORGE H. PRINCE: 1935 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A 71 YEAR OLD GOLD MINER, ORCHARD OWNER AND FISHING GUIDE WHO LIVES TO PAN FOR GOLD	UNIDENTIFIED: 1836 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LOG OF A US NAVAL WAR SHIP STILL PATROLLING THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA PROTECTING AMERICAN COMMERCIAL INTERESTS 20 YEARS AFTER THE LAST BARBARY WAR
JOHN SIMPSON, FIRST MATE: 1896 ORIGINAL, SUPERBLY DETAILED MERCHANT SHIP'S LOG OF A VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND TO INDIA AND THEN TO HAMBURG GERMANY FOUR YEARS AFTER ITS LAUNCHING AND NINE YEARS FROM ITS DESTRUCTION	UNIDENTIFIED: c1960s - 1970s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT 3 PAGE MEMOIR HANDWRITTEN BY AN OUTSIDE CONTRACTOR WHO DOES A SHORT, SIGNIFICANT STINT HELPING BUILD HOWARD HUGHES' AVIATION DREAM THE SPRUCE GOOSE	CHARLES M. DAWSON: 1876 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENGLISH WOOL MERCHANT'S 18 YEAR OLD SON WHO GAINS KNOWLEDGE, CONFIDENCE AND EXPERIENCE IN CANADA AND THE USA BEFORE HE TACKLES CHINA
CHARLES M. DAWSON: 1877 - 1878 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY THE 19 YEAR OLD SON OF AN ENGLISH WOOL MERCHANT TRAVELLING IN THE GUISE OF A GENTLEMAN ON A GRAND TOUR WHO IS IN FACT A SPY	PATTIE FITZGERALD: 1872 - 1878 ORIGINAL, SAD MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A VIRGINIA TEENAGER SUFFERING AT SCHOOL AND STARTING TO HAVE DARK MURDEROUS NIGHTMARES	AMY REQUA LONG MITTEN: 1945 - 1949 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT 5 YEAR DIARY OF AN EAST BAY OAKLAND SOCIALITE, TYCOON AND WHEELER DEALER
DAISY H. WOODS [Mrs. GEORGE WOODS]: 1934 - 1939 ORIGINAL GROUP OF FIVE [5] DEPRESSION ERA DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY THE MATRIARCH OF A FARMING FAMILY DOING QUITE WELL FOR THE TIMES	CHARLES M. DAWSON: 1890 ORIGINAL HAND DRAWN SKETCHBOOK BY A RENOWNED WOOL MERCHANT AND ACCOMPLISHED LANDSCAPE ARTIST OF YORKSHIRE AND CENTRAL ENGLAND	OSKAR LINDQUIST: 1871 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS AND TRADES BY A VERY ACTIVE SWEDISH TIMBER DEALER BASED IN ENGLAND TRAVELLING THROUGHOUT SWEDEN, POLAND, LATVIA, LITHUANIA WHEELING AND DEALING IN LUMBER, FINISHED WOOD PRODUCTS, STOCKHOLM TAR+++
THOMAS PILCHER PRITCHARD: 1873 - 1879 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A REAL LIFE BRITISH NAVY BLUE JACKET WHOSE NAVAL CAREER READS LIKE A FORESTER NOVEL	SCHILLER B. HERMANN: 1891 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF ONE MAN'S SOJOURN TO THE BATTLEFIELDS OF VIRGINIA AND PENNSYLVANIA 25 YEARS AFTER BROTHER FOUGHT BROTHER IN THE CIVIL WAR	UNIDENTIFIED: 1904 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A SPOKANE WASHINGTON MAN WHO WORKS FOR ONE OF THE AREA'S WELL KNOWN AGENTS, MERCHANTS AND MINERS
ROBERT H. ZOELLNER, HERMAN MELVILLE: MOBY DICK: MASSIVE 1952 HENDRICKS HOUSE EDITION OWNED BY MELVILLE EXPERT, PROFESSOR AND AUTHOR FILLED WITH COPIOUS NOTES DISSECTING ONE OF AMERICA'S LITERARY GREATS	JULIA M. D. MAYBERG: 1870 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY, TRAVEL JOURNAL AND CATCH ALL OF A RATHER WELL OFF TEENAGE GIRL FROM SOUTHERN WALES ON THE PICTURESQUE, ENIGMATIC GOWER PENINSULA	JOHN CROWELL, E.A. HAMILTON: 1901 - 1935 ORIGINAL GROUP OF EIGHT [8] ORIGINAL LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER AND ENGINEER LOG BOOKS COMPILED AND HANDWRITTEN AT SEAL ISLAND NOVA SCOTIA ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS MARITIME LOCALES ON EARTH CLAIMING 217 SHIPS SINCE COLONIAL TIMES
ERNEST COOK: 1918 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A SENSITIVE, SINCERE, POETIC YOUNG 23 YEAR OLD NEW JERSEY MAN FIGHTING GERMANY TO THE DEATH ON THE FRONT LINES	CHARLOTTE GRANT [MRS. IVAN GRANT]: 1937 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A HOCKEY LOVING CANADIAN GIRL IN DEPRESSION ERA TORONTO IN WHAT WOULD BE LITTLE PORTUGAL TODAY	AMNON ISH-SHALOM: 1943 - 1944 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A JEWISH VOLUNTEER FROM JERUSALEM IN BRITISH MANDATED PALESTINE WHO HELPS FIGHT GERMANY SERVING IN HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL NAVY
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