20th Century Manuscripts

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

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

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

1929 - 1930 ORIGINAL CHARMING MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A RURAL ARKANSAS TEENAGER COMING OF AGE IN PRE DEPRESSION AMERICA

1929 - 1931, 1933 & 1961 ORIGINAL GROUP OF THREE [3] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY THE WIFE OF ARDTREA, ONTARIO COUNCILMAN AND FARMER IN ORILLIA TOWNSHIP AND ONE OF ORILLIA PACKET CORRESPONDENTS IN 1960S, DETAILING HER EVERYDAY LIFE AND TIMES

1928 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A LOVELY, FAMILY ORIENTED WOMAN IN DELAWARE, SPENDING EACH DAY THANKFUL FOR THE GIFT OF FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND HER DOTING BOYFRIEND

1928 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN PARODY POEM OF ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,’ POKING GENTLE FUN AT PROHIBITION AND THE CULTURE OF THE ROARING TWENTIES WHILE STILL BEING QUITE WHOLESOME AT HEART

1928 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF A CHINESE FAMILY LIVING IN MANCHURIA, SHORTLY BEFORE JAPAN INVADED AND DECLARED IT A PUPPET STATE

1928 - 1929 UNIQUE AND FASCINATING TRAVEL SCRAPBOOK AND JOURNAL OF A YOUNG MAN WITH A KEEN ARTISTIC EYE AS HE TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD PHOTOGRAPHING HIS TRAVELS AND COLLECTING ENGROSSING POSTCARDS AND COMPELLING EPHEMERA

1930 ORIGINAL INSCRIBED CRUISE LOG BOOK AND JOURNAL OF A TRIP TAKEN TO NORTHERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER USSR ON THE HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE STEAMER THE ‘S.S. RELIANCE’

1932 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY OF A YOUNG WOMAN’S TRIP FROM COAST TO COAST ON A GREYHOUND BUS, SEEING SIGHTS, VISITING FRIENDS, AND LIVING LEISURELY IN GREAT DEPRESSION ERA AMERICA

1930s FASCINATING AND UNIQUE DIARY OF AN ARMED DETAIL OF FIVE MARINES TRAVELING BY STEAMBOAT INTO THE INTERIOR OF CHINA, EACH MAN CONTRIBUTING RECORDING AND DETAILING THE LIFE AND NATURE ALL AROUND THEM

1929 ORIGINAL, SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF EARLY SOVIET UNION AND AMERICAN RELATIONS HANDWRITTEN BY A KEEN EYED AND ENTHUSIASTIC AMERICAN DELEGATE FROM OAK PARK ILLINOIS A MERE SEVEN YEARS AFTER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE USSR

1932 - 1936 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT 5-YEAR DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A WEST COAST NAVY WIFE DUTIFULLY AND DELIGHTFULLY FOLLOWING HER HUSBAND FROM SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA TO BREMERTON WASHINGTON AND BACK

1932 ORIGINAL TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY ALABAMA'S MOST COLORFUL AND CONTROVERSIAL ANTI CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATORS WHO ALSO CREATED ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

1930s ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF EXPENSE VOUCHERS, ACCOMPANYING LETTERS AND UNUSUAL INSIGHT TO THE TRAVEL AND WORKINGS OF ONE OF ALABAMA'S NOTED AND NOTORIOUS SONS

1930 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A PROMINENT NEW ORLEANS CITIZEN, CIVIL ENGINEER AND ALL AROUND MAN ABOUT TOWN WHO HELPS PUSH THE CITY TOWARDS IT'S GREAT FUTURE

1928 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING A SUMMER SPENT BY AN ENGLISH WOMAN TEACHING AND TOURING IN PARIS FRANCE

1929 to 1933 Original Manuscript 5-Year Handwritten Diary by Louisiana Teenager with an Active Social Life Who's Making a Career of School Suspensions

1930 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG OHIO VIOLINST WHO WOULD ONE DAY SOON DEFY HER JAPANESE CAPTORS, ENDURE THREE YEARS OF HORRIFIC TREATMENT AND DEPRIVATIONS EVEN WHILE PREGNANT IN PRISON ONLY TO ENDURE AND FLOURISH UNTIL HER 97TH YEAR

1929 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING HER YEAR AND LIFE AS THE WORTHY MATRON OF HER HIALEAH FLORIDA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR CHAPTER

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

1929 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG LOS ANGELES GIRL AND THEN AS A WOMAN NOTING THE TRAGEDIES OF HER LATER LIFE

1932 ORIGINAL DEPRESSION ERA MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A CHARMING ALL AMERICAN MORMON GIRL IN UTAH

1930 ORIGINAL, MASSIVE SCRAPBOOK FILLED WITH PHOTOS, CLIPPINGS, AUTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA DOCUMENTING THE 1930 WORLD CHAMPION DANCE MARATHON IN FORT WAYNE INDIANA

1930s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LOG BOOK AND TRAINING JOURNAL OF THE SEA SCOUT PATROL PROGRAM CHARMINGLY WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE SHIP'S COXSWAIN

1928 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A LOVING, CHARMING GEORGIA GRANDMOTHER

1929 - 1933 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A SAD, LONELY GIRL TORMENTED BY A TERRIBLE BODY SELF IMAGE WHO THINKS LIFE WILL IMPROVE IF SHE CAN JUST LOSE A FEW POUNDS

1928 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF GEOLOGY TO CHRISTIANITY

1929 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM DETAILING A SIGNIFICANT RELIEF EXPEDITION TO CHINA BY TEN POMONA COLLEGE STUDENTS

1928 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF A YOUNG TEENAGE GIRL TRAVELING TO FINLAND THE HOME OF HER MOTHER'S FAMILY AND HER FATHER'S GRAVE

1929 ORIGINAL BRITISH ARMY OFFICER MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND EPHEMERA HANDWRITTEN BY THE NEWLY INSTALLED COMMANDER OF THE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY IN INDIA

1931 - 1932 CHARMING ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A LOVELY LOUSIANA GIRL TO HER BOYFRIEND AND FUTURE HUSBAND WHO IS IN TEXAS

1932 - 1936 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG PENNSYLVANIA GIRL GOING TO MARYLAND TO ATTEND HOOD COLLEGE

1928 - 1929 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF AN ENGLISH ENGINEER'S TIME TIN MINING, TIGER HUNTING AND TRAVELING IN SIAM

1930 - 1936 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF 60 MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY FIVE [5] DIFFERENT YOUNG WOMEN TO A 14 YEAR OLD WILMORE KANSAS LOTHARIO

1930 - 1934 ORIGINAL PHOTO JOURNAL OF A YOUNG MAN'S RELIGIOUS GRAND TOUR OF EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST AND THEN SOME UNIQUE PHOTOS OF THE GREAT NEW ENGLAND FLOOD IN 1936

1930s - 1990s ARCHIVE OF THREE [3] ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES REVEALING THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THIS HERO OF SOUTH AFRICAN JEWRY AND ZIONISM

1930s - 1940s ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF THREE [3] SCRAPBOOKS OF A NEWLY ARRIVED DANISH IMMIGRANT AND HER EMBRACING LIFE IN AMERICA AND HER DEDICATED CONTRIBUTION TO THE AMERICAN WAY

1928 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY YOUNG WOMAN STUDENT OF COLBY COLLEGE IN MAINE