20th Century Manuscripts

1999 DIARY OF A YOUNG GOD-LOVING AMERICAN MISSIONARY IN ROMANIA, PREACHING THE GOSPEL AROUND THE COUNTRY AND DETAILING THE FOOD, CULTURE, AND MANY ECCENTRICITIES OF THE ROMANIAN PEOPLE

1974 - 1979 ORIGINAL UNIQUE DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG FEMALE CRIMINAL, DETAILING THE HARDSHIPS, ROMANCES, AND UNCERTAINTIES OF PRISON, AND THE STRANGENESS OF ADJUSTING BACK TO LIFE AFTER JAIL

AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR WITH HANDWRITTEN NOTES OF A FUTURE PROFESSOR EMERITUS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS

A CLUB MEMORY - AN ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT ANTI-WAR POETIC RANT BY WELL KNOWN CONTROVERSIAL AUTHOR, ILLUSTRATOR, SOCIALIST, CHAMPION OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE, PACIFIST AND BOOKSELLER

ARCHIVE LOT OF FOUR [4] FIRST DAY COVERS ALL SIGNED BY JOHN UPDIKE: HONORING LONGFELLOW, HORATIO ALGER, JACK LONDON AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

ARCHIVE LOT OF 58 DIARIES 1888 THROUGH 1944 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF PVT. ADAMS - HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN COLORED COTTON MILLS CO. AND TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF CANADA

ARCHIVE LOT OF EIGHTEEN (18) TLS TYPED LETTERS SIGNED BY A VARIETY OF PARISIAN ARTISTS TO SAVE THE OLYMPIA MUSIC HALL

ARCHIVE LOT OF DOCUMENTS, DIARY, EPHEMERA AND ARTIFACTS RELATIVE TO SERVICE IN WWII AND POST WAR OCCUPIED JAPAN INCLUDING ADS BY PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN

ARCHIVE LOT OF 59 DIARIES 1867 THROUGH 1913 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF PATRIARCH EDWARD CARRINGTON SR. AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS IN COLEBROOK CONNECTICUT

ARCHIVE LOT OF 3 DIARIES 1903, 1907 AND 1912 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT FROM WAYNE COUNTY NEW YORK AREA

ARCHIVE LOT OF 16 DIARIES 1906 - 1921 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF C.W. LARRIMER OF BLOOMINGBURG OHIO

ARCHIVE LOT OF NINE HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF WALTER A. BURTON, AKRON OHIO INVENTOR TECHNICAL WRITER AND PHOTOGRAPHER

1952 Original Handwritten Diary Account of an American Army Mp Who Witnesses the Bloody May Day Riots in Japan and Serves in the Korean War

1959 Original Handwritten Manuscript Diary by an Avid Rose Gardener in Post-War America

1958-59 Cold War-Era American Railroad Engineer Handwritten Diary Detailing Successful Post-War USA, While Reflecting on Global Events like the Berlin Crisis

1952 Diary of an American Seaman Posted to the USS Marsh During the Korean War

1968 Texan Woman's Descriptive Travelogue of a 6+ Month Long Journey by Train and Ship Throughout Western Europe

1954-1958 Fascinating Diary of Ardis J. Barbee, Wife of Cecil Barbee, Los Angeles Coca-Cola Executive VP, Living the High Life in Post-War California

1952 Neatly Kept Original Handwritten Architect and Builder’s Diary Detailing the Daily Life and Work of an Architect in Postwar London

1950s SUPER, ORIGINAL EARLY STATE OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES TRAINING NOTE BOOKS MAKING FOR AN UNUSUAL AND UNIQUE HISTORY OF WEAPONRY AND ARMS THE YOUNG STATE HAD TO SCAVENGE FROM POST WAR EUROPE

1952 ORIGINAL, SAD, SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY THE WIFE OF A MAN SLOWLY, INEXORABLY DRAGGED DOWN TO HIS DEATH BY ALZHEIMERS

1959 - 1966 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A LATINO LOS ANGELES SENIOR JUST PRIOR TO AND AFTER THE U.S. POLITICAL WORLD IS ROCKED AND HER MOTHER BEGRUDGINGLY ACCEPTS HER WHITE AIR FORCE LIEUTENANT BOYFRIEND

1956 ORIGINAL SIGNIFICANT ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER IN POST WWII HONG KONG

1960 SUPER, ORIGINAL JOURNAL AND SCRAPBOOK DETAILING ONE MAN'S LOVE OF THE SEA AND THE SHIP'S THAT PLY THE OCEAN'S WATERS

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

1967 SIGNIFICANT, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN WOMAN TOURING EUROPE AND THE MIDEAST AND EYEWITNESS TO THE AFTERMATH OF ISRAEL'S SMASHING VICTORY AGAINST HER SEETHING, ANTAGONISTIC NEIGHBOURS

1968 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN IRANIAN-AMERICAN DOCTOR WHO ANSWERS THE CALL BACK HOME TO ASSIST AFTER THE DEVASTING DASHT-E BAYAZ AND FERDOWS EARTHQUAKES

1959 MASSIVE ARCHIVE OF CONSTRUCTION REPORTS, FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, WASTE MANAGEMENT PLANS, ETC. RELATING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF RECREATION AREAS AROUND LAKE BERRYESSA, COLLECTED AND COMPILED BY ITS HEAD ENGINEER

1970 - 1972 ORIGINAL VIETNAMESE LANGUAGE DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A SOLDIER FOR THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM, FIGHTING ALONGSIDE AMERICANS AGAINST THE COMMUNIST THREAT

1960s SUPER ARCHIVE OF 20 LETTERS BETWEEN FELLOW ARTISTS ELENA DE HELLEBRANTH AND HER FRIEND IRENE RICE PEREIRA, RENOWNED ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST, POET, AND PHILOSOPHER, AS THEY DISCUSS ART, LIFE AND RELIGION

1985 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY AND JOURNAL OF THE COMPLEX AND INTENSE DAY-TO-DAY WORK OF EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN AN ALASKA GOLD MINE

1973 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK: 'PERISCOPE PERSONALITIES 1901-1972' ABOUT THE MANY SUBMARINE COMMANDERS, OFFICERS, MATES AND SEAMEN SERVING IN THE ROYAL NAVY SUBMARINE SERVICES WRITTEN BY A BRITISH ROYAL NAVY SUBMARINER, HISTORIAN, AUTHOR AND 'PLUMBER'

1972 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK: 'SUBMARINE DEPOT SHIPS BASES & SUPPORT SHIPS' WRITTEN BY A BRITISH ROYAL NAVY SUBMARINER, HISTORIAN, AUTHOR AND 'PLUMBER'

1990 BRITISH OPEN MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK HANDWRITTEN BY CADDY IAN WRIGHT SIGNED AND AUTOGRAPHED BY SOME OF THE PREMIERE GOLFERS IN THE WORLD

1983 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN ABOARD THE NOTED HMS FEARLESS CRUISING TO TORTOLA PROVING MIDSHIPMAN EVEN 100s OF YEARS SEPARATED BY TIME ARE STILL MUCH THE SAME SINCE THE AGE OF SAIL

1958 COPY OF 'HERE I STAND' BY ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST ICONIC AFRICAN AMERICANS WITH HANDWRITTEN NOTES OF RAGE AND BITTERNESS BY ANOTHER RENOWNED AFRICAN AMERICAN

1960s FASCINATING, ORIGINAL GROUP OF DOCUMENTS, LETTERS AND EPHEMERA HANDWRITTEN AND COMPILED BY AN EMINENT SATURN AND APOLLO ROCKET SCIENTIST RECRUITED BY WERNHER VON BRAUN

1960s ORIGINAL RELIC OF THE APOLLO SPACE PROGRAM: APOLLO 10 PRESS KIT OF ROCKET SCIENTIST JESCO VON PUTTKAMER

1960s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE DETAILING MAO ZEDONG'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION AND IT'S MOVEMENT OF SUPPRESSING COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES AND ONE DOOMED MAN'S CAPTURE, INTERROGATION, CONFESSION AND RECANTATION

1972 ORIGINAL TYPED MANUSCRIPT: LONG WALK RECOLLECTIONS BY NAVAJOS BY NOTED HISTORIAN PLUS HIS EDITORS COPY