Diaries, Journals, Log Books, Cyphers and Scrapbooks

1944-1945 Remarkable Manuscript Diary and Naval Memorabilia Collection of an Indiana Soldier Serving on the USS Lewis Hancock in the "Pacific Theater of War"

1936-1940 Pennsylvania Diary Highlighting the Immense Burden and Resilience of Middle Aged Womanhood and the Power of Community

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

1924 ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK AND JOURNAL OF A CROSS COUNTRY COAST TO COAST TRAIN TRIP BY THE MASSACHUSETTS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

1924 - 1927 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL AND DIARY OF THE GARDENER AND GROUNDSKEEPER OF DENISON UNIVERSITY

1966 Fascinating Marine Biology Scientific Logbook and Reports of a Research Team on the Pacific Ocean Completing a Multi-Year Oceanography Study

1922 + 1928 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST NOTED CHEMISTS

1923 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A HARDWORKING UPSTATE NEW YORK FARMER WHO DETAILS THE POST WORLD WAR I RURAL LIFE OF A DAIRYMAN

1921 THROUGH 1939 ARCHIVE OF TWELVE [12] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES DETAILING THIS YOUNG UPSTATE NEW YORK ALL AMERICAN BOY AND MUSICIAN THROUGH THE ROARING TWENTIES THROUGH THE DEPRESSION TO THE VERY CUSP OF WORLD WAR II

1925 - 1939 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE OF 8 DIARIES BY AN OBSESSIVE WRITER, REPORTER AND TRIVIA ENTHUSIAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND WORLD AND LOCAL EVENTS

1925 + 1936 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF A WEALTHY AMERICAN OILMAN'S WIFE AT CRITICAL JUNCTURES IN CHINA'S HISTORY

1922 - 1930 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING THIS WACO TEXAS THIS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT'S LOVE OF FOOTBALL AND HER INITIAL FASCINATION FOR THE KU KLUX KLAN

1923 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT CHARMINGLY DETAILS THE LIFE AND FAMILY OF A MASSACHUSETTS HOMEMAKER AND SUBSTITUTE TEACHER

1925 & 1929 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF A LUMBERMAN, FARMER, RURAL ENTREPRENEUR AND NEW FATHER

1922 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY RELATING THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY AND DIFFICULT LIFE OF ILLNESS AND HER COURAGE TO FACE IT

1923 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF A KEENLY OBSERVANT WOMAN AWESTRUCK BY THE ISLANDS AND CULTURE OF HAWAII

1924 NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL GRANDMASTERS CHESS TOURNAMENT SCRAPBOOK INCLUDING HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT SCORING NOTES

1921 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY LEAVING SOUTH DAKOTA ACROSS COUNTRY BACK EAST TO WASHINGTON DC AND NORTH CAROLINA

1917 to 1926 Original Diary Handwritten by a Daughter of the American Revolution with a Full Social Calendar

1905 Original Handwritten Diary by a Vermont Student Who Would Become the Matriarch of a Multigenerational British Columbia Lumber Dynasty

1915-1927 Manuscript Poetry Collection of Tufts University Newspaper Editor with Distinct Literary Talent Who Died before She Could Achieve Notoriety

1917 Travel Diary by Wife of Former Rhode Island Supreme Court Justice

1895-1915 Handwritten Diaries Chronicling Scotland to USA Immigration and the Subsequent Daily Life of a Politically and Religiously Involved Immigrant in New Hampshire, USA

1914 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF A HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO WITNESS THE ONSET OF WORLD WAR I IN LONDON AND PARIS

1916-1927 Two Diaries by the Busy, Affluent Wife of US Navy Dr. John Murray Steele Detailing Life and Death in Annapolis, MD

1920s Syracuse, NY Medical Student's Physiology Notes, Demonstrates Massive Contrast between Medical Knowledge of the 1920s Vs Today

1919 Diary of American Soldier from the 56th Infantry, Ezra Skow, Stationed in Occupied Germany following WWI, Describing the Duties and Daily Life of a US Soldier

1914 Diary of a Teen Girl Whose Family Were Prominent Early Settlers in New York, Involved in the Suffragette Movement, Keenly Observant of Global Events

1913-1914 Diary of a Single Morris County, NJ Woman with Close Familial Ties to the Col Hiram Smith, Mayflower Settlers, and an Heir to the Smith/baldwin House, Writing As WWI Commenced

1895 - 1912 FIVE (5) ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK JOURNALS BELONGING TO HORACE HOBART, NOTED CHICAGO JOURNALIST AND FOUNDING EDITOR OF THE STILL-PUBLISHED RAILWAY AGE MAGAZINE

1919 Diary of the Business-Minded Matriarch of the La Fox, Illinois Potter Family Who Were Integral in the Region’s Growth in the Late 1800s

1906 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG SAN FRANCISCO BOY WHO CHRONICLES HIS LIVING THROUGH THE EARTHQUAKE OF 1906 INCLUDING THE DESTRUCTION OF HIS HOME

1919 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG HARVARD MAN WHO WOULD GO ON TO A MULTI FACETED LIFE: INDUSTRIALIST, ENGINEER, CORPORATE CEO, STATE DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR AND CIA OPERATIVE DURING THE BAY OF PIGS

1917 ORIGINAL, CHARMING PEEK INTO YOUNG LOVE AND COURTING WITH THE AWFUL BACK DROP OF WWI LOOMING FOR A COUPLE WHO WOULD JOIN IN LIFE FOR NEARLY 6 DECADES

1910 - 1930 ORIGINAL GROUP OF 12 MANUSCRIPT DIARIES DETAILING 19 YEARS IN THE LIFE: FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO HOBOKEN AND ENGINEERING STUDENT TO ENSIGN IN THE US NAVY

1909 - 1920s ORIGINAL MASSIVE ARCHIVE OF PRIMARY, HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, DOCUMENTS AND EPHEMERA BY NOTED GEOLOGIST, GEOGRAPHER AND EXPLORER OF ARGENTINA AND THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONTINENT

1918 ORIGINAL DIARY AND NOTEBOOK OF A TEENAGE BOY IN ENGLAND ENDURING THE AWFUL WAR WITH GERMANY BUT WHO WOULD SOON ENOUGH GO ON TO PRINCETON, HARVARD, US MILITARY INTELLIGENCE AND FAME AS AN ARCHAEOLOGIST AND ANTIQUARIAN

1916 ORIGINAL UPSTATE NEW YORK MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A LOCAL FARMER'S WIFE INTENT ON RECORDING ALL THE ACTIVITIES AND OBSERVATIONS OF LOCAL LIFE AND TIMES WITH THE AWFUL BACKDROP OF WWI EVER LOOMING

1912 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT STUDENT, STRIKE BREAKER AND 'SCAB' WORKING FOR THE ELEVATED STREET RAILROAD DURING A BITTER LABOR STRIKE

1906 through 1948 ORIGINAL GROUP OF SIX [6] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES AND LEDGERS DETAILING THE DEPTH AND BREADTH OF EARLY 20th CENTURY WOMEN'S INTERESTS AND THOUGHT