20th Century Manuscripts

1918 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A NAVY YEOMAN ENJOYING PHILADELPHIA'S SIGHTS AND TRYING TO STAY FREE OF THE FLU

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

1917 ORIGNAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A HARDWORKING, DEDICATED CENTRAL OHIO WOMAN

1918 - 1919 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR I DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENSIGN IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY RESERVE FORCE

1918 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING THE LAST FEW WEEKS OF HIS MORMON MISSION WORK IN NEW ZEALAND AND THE TRIP HOME

1920 - 1927 ORIGINAL GROUP OF EIGHT [8] DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A RISING AND FOR THE MOST PART KEEN MEMBER OF THE MIDDLE CLASS ENJOYING LIFE AS BEST HE CAN

1919 ORIGINAL GROUP OF MANUSCRIPT NOTES, JOURNALS AND DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE EDUCATION OF A YOUNG ENSIGN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE FORCE IN THE NAVAL ACADEMY AND SUBMARINE SCHOOL

1918 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF LONG BREEZY LETTERS [27] HANDWRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN CORPORAL WHO CANNOT MASK HIS FEAR AND CONCERNS ABOUT RETURNING HOME

1919 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF SEVEN [7] MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A ROYAL NAVY OFFICER OF THE HMS TEMERAIRE DETAILING THE SHIP'S ROLE IN SETTLING THE POST WORLD WAR EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

1920 - 1926 ORIGINAL GLOBAL MULTI TRIP MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL JOURNAL AND PERSONAL DIARY OF A YOUNG WEALTHY WOMAN AND BRYN MAWR ALUMNA

1920 ORIGINAL ROARING 20s MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN INTELLIGENT, EDUCATED NURSE AND CHEMISTRY LOVER WHO SADLY ALL TOO EASILY EXHIBITS THE RACISM OF THE DAY

1919 - 1921 Fascinating Original Manuscript Diary Handwritten by the Daughter of the Notorious Civil War Gold Hoaxer and Wife of a Major, Wealthy Industrialist Whose Marriage is all Too Obviously on the Rocks

1918 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN INJURED BRITISH OFFICER NOW IN COMMAND OF THE HOME SERVICE EMPLOYMENT CORPS

1918 ORIGINAL WORLD WAR I MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN IN INTIMATE DETAIL BY A SADLY TYPICAL FOR TIMES RACIST AT CAMP JACKSON SOUTH CAROLINA

1917 - 1918 ORIGINAL, INTENSE MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IN FRANCE DUCKING DANGER WHILE DELIVERING DEADLY CARGO THROUGH WAR TORN FRANCE

1920 - 1922 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENGINEER OR MATE ON THE TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF SHIPBUILDING

1920 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DECK LOG AND SCRAPBOOK OF A YOUNG NAVY SEAMAN ABOARD A RENOWNED AND ONE DAY LEGENDARY BUT ILL FATED DESTROYER - THE USS BORIE

1917 - 1926 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF FIVE [5] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG ITHACA NEW YORK WOMAN WHO DETAILS HER LIFE OF RURAL TOIL AND CREATING ART

1917, 1918 AND 1920 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR I DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A MARCONI RADIO OPERATOR WHO WITNESSES FIRST HAND THE DANGERS OF CONVOY WORK AND THE RESOLUTE DETERMINATION OF THE BRITISH NAVY

1917 - 1919 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF EIGHT [8] LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A QUAKER NURSE WHILE ON DUTY AT THE PREMIER AMERICAN MENTAL HOSPITAL

1918 ORIGINAL MANUAL, SCRAPBOOK AND EARLY AVIATION MECHANIC'S TECHNICAL JOURNAL DURING WORLD WAR I

1919 ORIGINAL FULLY CAPTIONED PHOTO ALBUM AND RELIC OF TRAVEL TO POST WORLD WAR I ESTES PARK, DENVER AND GREELEY COLORADO

1918 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORK JOURNAL OF A SUPERVISOR OR FOREMAN OF SHIP YARD WORKERS REPAIRING AND RENOVATING SHIPS AND TUGBOATS INCLUDING THE ILL-FATED SS DORA

1917 - 1918 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF WORLD WAR I OFFICER TRAINING AND PROCEDURE HANDWRITTEN BY A DEDICATED SERGEANT WHO FOCUSED AND WORKED HARD TOWARD PROMOTION

1918 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR I OFFICER TRAINING JOURNAL HANDWRITTEN BY THE LONG TIME FRIEND OF WARREN BUFFET AND DIRECTOR OF BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY WHO WOULD LATER PROVE BUFFET WRONG

1919 - 1923 ORIGINAL POST WORLD WAR I MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY MUCH NOTED AND DECORATED COMMANDER OF THE USS CHANDLER AND HUSBAND OF AN AMERICAN SPY

1917 - 1926 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF AN EXCEPTIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SERVING HER COUNTRY DURING WORLD WAR I AS A FOREIGN SERVICE AGENT AND THEN AN OPERATIVE FOR THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY [CIA] WHILE HER HUSBAND SAILED WITH THE PACIFIC FLEET

1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER DETAILING GERMAN SUBMARINE ATTACK OFF SICILY IN THE IONIAN SEA

1918 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR I DIARY INTIMATELY DETAILING ONE WISCONSIN SERGEANT'S SERVICE DUTY TO HIS FAIRY PRINCESS BACK HOME

1919 ARCHIVE OF TWO [2] ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK AND DIARY OF ARCTIC EXPLORATION AND MARBLE MINING IN THE FAR NORTH OF NORWAY WITH THE THREAT OF BOLSHEVISM LOOMING BY THE MANAGER FOR THE NORTHERN EXPLORATION COMPANY

1917 ORIGINAL SENSATIONAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF AN ARMY BAND SERGEANT WHO LOOKS FOR FRIENDS AND FOES ON THE FRONTLINES BETWEEN CONCERTS, A REVOLVER HIS ONLY COMPANION

1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR I HOMEFRONT AND COLLEGE DIARY OF A YOUNG SAN FRANCISCO WOMAN ATTENDING UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY

1920 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN EXPRESSIVE, INTELLIGENT ROUGH AND TUMBLE RURAL BOY WHO LOVES NOTHING BETTER THAN HUNTING, FISHING AND TRUANCY

1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG ORPHANED RUSSIAN GIRL WHO DETAILS HER LIFE AND TIMES AND ANSWERS THE QUESTION "I AM?"

1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF SAPPER FRY'S 'FIRST TRIP TO FRANCE' TO BEAT BACK THE GERMANS AND HELP REPATRIATE THE FRENCH

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

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

1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A HARDWORKING DETAIL ORIENTED DIARIST AND GENEALOGIST IN CENTRAL WEST NEW YORK STATE

1919 - 1923 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY THE CHARMING, LIVELY BRANCH LIBRARIAN OF MEMORIAL SQUARE LIBRARY

1918 CHARMING GEORGETOWN COLLEGE AUTOGRAPH BOOK: HANDWRITTEN SONGS, SAYINGS AND NERVOUS DRAFT AGE BOYS