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GEORGE B. AHN: 1908 - 1949 REMARKABLE ARCHIVE OF THIRTEEN [13] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY RAILROAD EXECUTIVE, EVANGELICAL REVIVAL CHURCH SERVICE ATTENDEE, SHREWD POLITICAL PROGNOSTICATOR AND FATHER OF FIVE RICHARD SUTCLIFFE THOMAS: 1844 - 1911 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY: A HANDWRITTEN EPIC BY A WEST YORKSHIRE MAN AND EXPERT ON GOOD TEMPLARISM: FROM CHILD LABORER TO CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY, FROM POVERTY TO COMFORT AND THE UPPER ECHELONS OF FREEMASONRY ADJUTANT GENERAL NIVET: 1798 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT NAPOLEON ERA ORDERS REVOLUTIONARY STATIONARY BY IMPORTANT GENERAL OFT NOTED IN NAPOLEON'S CORRESPONDENCE
ELLA C. KING: 1884 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN WHO IS FALLING IN LOVE WITH DENVER UNIDENTIFIED BRIDE OF CHRIST: 1936 and 1937 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A NUN WHO SERVES FORMER FLORIDA FATHER JOHN FRANCIS CONOLEY - A MAN OF GOD WHO STOOD AGAINST THE KLAN CHARLES G. READE: 1892 - 1902 ARCHIVE OF FOUR [4] ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES DETAILING THE LIFE AND LOVE OF A DAYTON OHIO NEWSPAPERMAN TURNED PREACHER MAN
MRS. DR. WILLIAM SCHILLER[?]: 1936 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A BITTER, RESENTFUL, SELF ABSORBED NEW WIFE OF A MEDICAL DOCTOR WORKING HIS WAY OUT HIS MARRIAGE JAMES PETRAN: 1920s ORIGINAL SKETCHBOOK, HAM RADIO OPERATIONS BOOK AND CHARMING CATCH-ALL BOOK OF A DELIGHTFUL MILWAUKEE 8 YEAR OLD EUGEN NOSS: 1939 - 1947 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A GERMAN SAILOR FROM EARLY ON IN THE WAR TO A PRISONER OF WAR CAMP WITHIN MONTHS
MRS. DR. PAUL BURGESS [FRANCES B.]: 1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR I OAHU HAWAII HOMEFRONT DIARY OF A YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN, HER CHEMIST HUSBAND WITH A CROSS COUNTRY TRIP BACK HOME TO RHODE ISLAND AND MAINE IDA BELVEAL: 1920 - 1923 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT 4 YR DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN OKLAHOMA COLLEGE GIRL WITH NOT SO SURPRISING ENTRIES OF THE TIMES: RACISM, MISOGYNY AND ABUSE AMID THE BACKDROP OF POST WORLD WAR I AMERICA AND THE ROARING 20s MARIA DIVEN [MRS. GENERAL ALEXANDER SAMUEL DIVEN]: 1891 - 1917 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF TWELVE [12] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY WIFE OF NOTED CIVIL WAR GENERAL AND PROMINENT WEALTHY FLORIDIAN AND ONE TIME NEW YORK CONGRESSMAN
UNIDENTIFIED: 1940 - 1944 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT GERMAN HOME FRONT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY THE DAUGHTER OF A HIGH RANKING OFFICER, COMMANDER OF A PANZER DIVISION AND PARTICIPANT AT THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD GENERAL ALFRED E. BRADLEY, CHIEF SURGEON AEF: 1916 - 1917 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF FOUR [4] MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR I HANDWRITTEN DIARIES [2] AND CHECK BOOKS [2] FOLLOWING THE CHIEF SURGEON OF THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES FIRST AS MILITARY OBSERVER IN ENGLAND BEFORE THE ENTRY OF AMERICA UNTIL THE END Rev. Charles William Shepherd: 1861 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF JOURNAL, LETTERS, PHOTOS AND EPHEMERA DOCUMENTING THE EARLY TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION OF THE NORTH FRISIAN ISLANDS BY RENOWNED AUTHOR AND ORNITHOLOGIST DOCUMENTING THE BIRDS, PEOPLE AND GEOGRAPHY OF THIS ONCE CONTESTED AREA
SAPPER [PRIVATE] J. FRY: 1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF SAPPER FRY'S 'FIRST TRIP TO FRANCE' TO BEAT BACK THE GERMANS AND HELP REPATRIATE THE FRENCH MARKUS BEHRENDT: 1961 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN, HAND ILLUSTRATED SCRAPBOOK AND TRAVEL JOURNAL OF ONE GERMAN MAN'S TRIP HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD UNIDENTIFIED: c1890s SUITE OF THREE [3] ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF ONE WOMAN'S VISIT TO THE FAMED WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S HOME: DOVE COTTAGE INCLUDING HER MEETING WITH THE NOTED CARETAKER MRS. DIXON
W.D. TOWNLEY: 1868 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE SUTTON MILL DAM WITH ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN INSCRIPTION O. HAROLD McAVOY: 1906 & 1944 ORIGINAL SKETCHBOOKS AND JOURNALS OF NOTED TORONTO ARTIST AND ARCHITECT FROM A YOUNG TEENAGER TO A MIDDLE AGED MAN CAPTAIN RUSSELL EDWARDS: 1899 ORIGINAL, SUPERB LOG AND TRAVEL JOURNAL OF A BUSY WORKING SCHOONER TRADING AROUND THE WORLD
UNIDENTIFIED COMPANION TO PROFESSOR AUGUSTUS WALDO DRURY: 1886 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NEW YORK TO BERLIN AND BACK TRAVEL DIARY OF A YOUNG EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN COMPLETING HIS STUDIES IN THE COMPANY OF NOTED AUTHOR AND MINISTER PROFESSOR AUGUSTUS DRURY UNIDENTIFIED: 1933 - 1938 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF AN ACTIVE SCOTTISH PREACHER TENDING HIS FLOCK IN NEW YORK STATE AND REACHING OUT TO A PRISON MINISTRY AND CONSERVATIONS CAMPS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION MOSES WOODS: 1736 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT DETAILING THE SPECIFICS OF A NEW ROAD THROUGH THE MASSACHUSETTS TOWN OF MARLBOROUGH
MISS ANNE SEGAN: 1940 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A CHARMING YOUNG WOMAN FROM CLEVELAND OHIO MISS RUTH FOGEL: 1941 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG JEWISH GIRL SCOUT FROM THE BRONX MISS HELEN GERTRUDE SCHAFFTER: 1916 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SCHOOL MEMORIES JOURNAL - AN HOMAGE TO HIGH SCHOOL LIFE AND CHARMING RELIC OF PRE WORLD WAR I AMERICANA
ROBERT SIMPSON WOODWARD: 1903 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK OF HANDWRITTEN NOTES, EQUATIONS AND FORMULAE BY NOTED ASTRONOMER, PHYSICIST AND MATHEMATICIAN VERNON [VERNIE] KUNTZELMAN: 1911 - 1915 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY AND LOG OF A UNITED STATES NAVY SAILOR WHO SEES ACTION DURING THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION DEBORAH [BACHE] DUANE: 1834 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S GRAND-DAUGHTER TO HIS NAVAL OFFICER GREAT GRANDSON
DR. RALPH M[OZART] WHITEHEAD: 1893 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF THIRTY [30] MANUSCRIPT LETTERS BY A WONDERFUL CORRESPONDENT AND WELL TRAVELED SHIP'S SURGEON TO HIS FAMILY SEAMAN JAMES PALMER 1st Div. BM 2/c: 1943 - 1946 UNUSUAL ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LOG BOOK AND 'SCORE CARD' OF A NAVAL SEAMAN ABOARD THE USS BILOXI ANDREW C. WALCH: 1892 - 1897 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF SIX [6] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A NOTED KANSAS NEWSPAPERMAN
ELIAS D. SMITH: 1858 HANDWRITTEN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL AND DIARY OF A WELL KNOWN PHILLIPSBURG NEW JERSEY MAN WHO WILL SOON BE A SERGEANT IN THE CIVIL WAR UNIDENTIFIED: 1886 - 1887 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF CHRISTIAN OUTREACH - THE CONSTITUTION, MINUTES AND MUSTER OF THE GOOD MISSIONARY WOMEN OF TENANTS HARBOR MAINE GEORGE McNEE, CHIEF ENGINEER: 1923 ORIGINAL CHIEF OFFICER'S LOG BOOK OF THE SAIL AND STEAM PACKET SHIP S.S. TEES PLYING HER TRADE FROM ARDROSSAN SCOTLAND TO GREYMOUTH NEW ZEALAND AND THE LAND DOWN UNDER
ERICK MARSCHEK [?]: c1930-40s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT 'JUNGVOLK DIARY' FILLED WITH HITLER'S NAZI VERSION OF PRE-HISTORY AND THE BIRTH OF THE ARYAN RACE C.J. LEAVITT [CHARLES]: 1890 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A NOTED TACOMA WASHINGTON LUMBER MAN, REALTOR PROMINENTLY CITED IN "THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF OREGON" WILLIAM LINES [HAVRAH] HUBBARD: 1932 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND PHOTO JOURNAL OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST AUTHORITY AT THE TIME ON OPERA WITH THE WORLD'S FOREMOST AUTHORITY ON PHYSICS ALBERT EINSTEIN HIS SHIPMATE FROM LOS ANGELES TO GERMANY
JULIA A. READ: 1932 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF A GRAND EUROPEAN TOUR AND OF THE GRAND MAN OF OPERA SHE ACCOMPANIES BERTHOLD MAHN [Charles Desire Berthold-Mahn]: 1933 - 1944 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF PERSONAL LETTERS BY ONE NOTED ARTIST TO HIS BROTHER ARTIST IN THE 'ABBEY DE CRETEIL' GROUP HENRY J. HADDON, RN SURGEON: 1897 - 1915 UNIQUE ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN 'JINKS' A BRITISH ROYAL NAVY SURGEON AND HIS WIFE AND SUPER VICTORIAN EPHEMERA
WILLIAM A. DOUBLEDAY [?]: 1879 & 1883 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES FROM PROMINENT LOCAL FAMILY DETAILING GENEALOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY OF COOPERSTOWN NEW YORK HADDON, HENRY J., RN SURGEON: 1887 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A ROYAL NAVAL SURGEON'S TIME WITH THE BRITISH FLEET IN THE AUSTRALASIAN TERRITORIES ORIANA FALLACI et al: HER PERSONAL COMPACT RESEARCH LIBRARY OF FAMED JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR AND ANTI-SHARIA FREEDOM FIGHTER
ALBERT M. MEAD: 1859 - 1860 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL WITH DETAILED ENTRIES ON THE LOCAL HISTORY, POLITICS - INCLUDING THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE'S PRO SLAVERY STANCE - AND PRE CIVIL WAR BACKGROUND OF A SAD, FAILED, UNHAPPY MAN WHO WANTS SO MUCH MORE HENRY A. WHITEHEAD: 1892 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A 'TYPICAL' VICTORIAN GENTLEMAN JUDGE CHARLES PRESTON STRATTON: 1871 & 1877 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF TWO [2] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A PROMINENT NEW JERSEY JUDGE, LAWYER, POLITICIAN AND RAILROAD INDUSTRIALIST
NELSON GREEN [?]: 1872 - 1883 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF NINE [9] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES DETAILING THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A SOUTH CENTRAL ONTARIO FARMER, LUMBER AND QUARRY MAN MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE MOWRY: 1905 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND JOURNAL OF PROMINENT RHODE ISLAND LAWYER ELIZABETH FRANCENIA McKOY: 1906 - 1907 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND SCRAPBOOK OF SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE LIFE IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
CHARLES BLACK, FARRIER SERGEANT: c1860s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT FARRIER JOURNAL AND CASTRATION LOG OF PESHAWAR BASED BRITISH ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY FARRIER WHO WOULD ONE DAY SERVE IN CANADA'S NORTH WEST REBELLION AND FOUND THE BLACK'S PHOTOGRAPHY CHAIN EUGENIA [GENIE] A. GOODRICH: 1869 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY OF THE HARD RURAL LIFE OF DEATH, DISEASE AND NEVERENDING WORK DURING A VERY COLD YEAR IN CENTRAL VERMONT FRANCISCO BERRA: 1880 HANDWRITTEN SPANISH MANUSCRIPT: "Proyecto de Reglamento Para la Seccion de Estudios del Ateneo del Uruguay"
UNIDENTIFIED: 1901 - 1902 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND MEMORY BOOK OF AN ENTHUSIASTIC SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 'GIRL-NEXT-DOOR' STUDENT UNIDENTIFIED: c1850 - 1870s ORIGINAL CHARMING VICTORIAN ERA HANDWRITTEN MEMORY BOOK OF WORLD TRAVEL AND A GRAND TOUR - AN UNUSUAL PAIRING OF FLORA AND FAUNA AND CLASSIC POETRY OF AN UNCOMMON TRIP FROM TYRE TO TORONTO EMILY C. DINGMAN: 1878 - 1881 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ISOLATED PIONEER WOMAN LIVING THE HARD LIFE AS THE WIFE AND MOTHER OF MEN WHO WORK AND SAIL THE WATERS OF LAKE ONTARIO
GEORGE F. VICKERMAN: 1898 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND HANDWRITTEN TREASURE TROVE OF LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF A LARGE DAIRY FARM AND CREAMERY IN NEW YORK STATE MR. ____ W. BUTLER: 1951 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT COPY OF THE 'DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE' PRESENTED AS A JULY 4TH GIFT BY THE 81 YEAR OLD SAVANNAH GEORGIA PATRIOT WHO CREATED THIS CHARMING PIECE OF HANDWRITTEN AMERICANA UNIDENTIFIED 14 YEAR OLD ORPHAN GIRL: 1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG ORPHANED RUSSIAN GIRL WHO DETAILS HER LIFE AND TIMES AND ANSWERS THE QUESTION "I AM?"
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY: c1930s-50s COMPACT CHISTOPHER MORLEY ARCHIVE AND LIBRARY: ONE TLS, ONE CLIPPING AND 5 COLLECTIBLE VOLUMES CAPTAIN BURTON H. SHUPPER, C.O. USS PROVIDENCE et al: 1962 - 1963 ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN AND TYPED LETTERS TO AND FROM 'BUNNY' SHUPPER COMMANDER OF A UNITED STATES NUCLEAR MISSILE CRUISER BOB CROSBY: 1963 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY AMERICAN DIXIELAND BAND LEADER HANDWRITTEN TO HIS PAL 'BUNNY' CAPTAIN OF A UNITED STATES NUCLEAR CRUISER
MRS. DAVID (C.A.) CLOUGH: 1892 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A MAINE WOMAN DETAILING THE HORRORS OF INFLUENZA AND THE GRIPPE UNKNOWN SCRIVENER: 1525 ORIGINAL ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT OF CIVIL LAW: 'CORPUS IURIS CIVILIS OF JUSTINIAN' DANIEL K. CATLIN: 1885 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF CASES, TORT LAW, PRECEDENTS AND LEGAL THEORY INCLUDING THE INNER MENTAL WORKINGS OF A YOUNG MID-AMERICA LITIGATOR
DR. LEROY DWIGHT FARNHAM: 1869 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF AN INTERESTING 19 YEAR OLD DOCTOR AND SCHOLAR THEO C. LINN: 1896 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN ITINERANT BRAMPTON ONTARIO TEACHER AND SOMETIME SCIENTIST AND SCHOLAR FRED ENGLISH: 1927 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF ONE BOSTON COUPLE'S CRUISE ABOARD AN ILL-FATED SHIP THAT WOULD ONE DAY SADLY BOAST THE COSTLIEST BRITISH LOSS AT SEA IN NAVAL HISTORY
ROBIN [ROBERT] ADAIR: 1894 - 1913 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF 14 MANUSCRIPT DIARIES DETAILING A LIFE OF LEISURE AND CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION: LESSONS, LECTURES AND LIBRARIES, GLOBAL TRAVEL AND TAILORS CLAUD LEE NEAL: 1920 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN EXPRESSIVE, INTELLIGENT ROUGH AND TUMBLE RURAL BOY WHO LOVES NOTHING BETTER THAN HUNTING, FISHING AND TRUANCY UNIDENTIFIED: 1890 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG HARD WORKING KANSAS HOG FARMING, CATTLE RANCHING, HORSE TRADING, LUMBERMAN
D. SMITH WASHBURN: 1867 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG HURON COUNTY OHIO FARMER DETAILING HIS LIFE, TIMES AND TRAVELS IN POST CIVIL WAR OHIO DR. MURDO [DR. MAC] MacDONALD BAYNE: c1930s TYPED MANUSCRIPT 'THE YOGA OF THE CHRIST' WITH HANDWRITTEN CORRECTIONS BY THE GREAT SPIRITUALIST AND HEALER HELEN GERRISH HUGHES: 1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR I HOMEFRONT AND COLLEGE DIARY OF A YOUNG SAN FRANCISCO WOMAN ATTENDING UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY