Diaries, Journals, Log Books, Cyphers and Scrapbooks

1881-1883 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LOG BOOK AND JOURNAL OF THE USS QUINNEBAUG HANDWRITTEN BY ITS NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR, AS IT TRAVELS TO EUROPE TO PROTECT AMERICAN INTERESTS, INCLUDING PARTICIPATING IN THE BOMBARDMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

1881 ORIGINAL, SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL DETAILING THE MUNICIPAL ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES OF AMERICA'S FIRST PLANNED INDUSTRIAL CITY AND MODEL FOR THE LATE 19th CENTURY VISION OF A MODERN URBAN METROPOLIS

1881 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN OLD COLONY MASSACHUSETTS MATRIARCH

1881 + 1883 + 1890 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS/DIARIES OF P.H. GRISHAM CIVIL WAR VETERAN, GENEALOGIST OF WASHINGTON DC ALEXANDRIA VIRGINIA, ARKANSAS AND TENNESSEE

1881 & 1914 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF A RURAL UPSTATE NEW YORK FARMER AND THEN LATER A SENIOR CITIZEN CASHING HIS PENSION CHECKS

1880s “REPORT UPON THE MANUFACTURE OF GUN COTTON” A DETAILED DESCRIPTION, FROM PLANT TO WEAPON, WITH EXCELLENT, DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF 19th CENTURY MACHINERY, PROCESSES AND MILITARY SCIENCE

1880s THROUGH 1910s SCRAPBOOK HOMAGE TO THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TWO DEDICATED SOUTH DAKOTA SISTERS AND THEIR LOVE FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA

1880s - 1906 ORIGINAL PAIR OF OF ENGLISH COOKBOOKS WITH RECIPES FROM THE VICTORIAN ERA THROUGH TO EDWARDIAN TIMES

1880s - 1900s ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MASSIVE LEDGERS AND JOURNALS HANDWRITTEN BY MISSOURI KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS FILLED WITH RITES, DOCUMENTS AND ANECDOTES

1880s - 1900s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF ONE ARKANSAS MAN'S DETERMINED DOCUMENTING OF THE 1857 MORMON ATROCITY AND AMERICA'S WORST MASS SHOOTING KNOWN AS THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE

1880 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DOUBLE TRIP TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A CHARMING, VERY WELL WRITTEN YOUNG BOSTON MAN IN MAINE

1880 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA MATRON DETAILING A FULL LIFE OF TOILING AND TRAGEDY BUT NOT WITHOUT FULFILLMENT

1880 ORIGINAL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY LEVI HARD, A FARMER FROM KENDALL, ORLEANS COUNTY, NY, DOCUMENTING FARMING ACTIVITIES AND SOCIAL LIFE

1880 HANDWRITTEN SPANISH MANUSCRIPT: Proyecto de Reglamento Para la Seccion de Estudios del Ateneo del Uruguay

1880 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT OF THE NEW REVEREND AT THE CLINTON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

1880 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING LATE 19TH CENTURY LIFE IN THE FINGER LAKES REGION OF NEW YORK

1880 - 1938 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN HISTORY OF THE BOBBILI CASTE GIRL'S SCHOOL FOUNDED BY CANADIAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY MATILDA MOORE FAULKNER CHURCHILL

1880 - 1929 ORIGINAL GROUP OF EIGHT [8] DIARIES AND ONE [1] JOURNAL DETAILING THE LIFE OF A DARTMOUTH MAN; SON, BROTHER, NEPHEW OF A RENOWNED SEAFARING FAMILY WHO BUCKS THE TREND AS TOWN CLERK OF SOUTH DARTMOUTH

1880 - 1921 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF AN ERUDITE AND EXPRESSIVE LATE 19TH CENTURY BUSINESS ENTREPRENEUR

1880 - 1895 HANDWRITTEN LEDGER BOOK OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PERSONAL AND BUSINESS EXPENSES AND BILLS OF THE PATRIARCH OF A FAMILY OF STONE MASONS IN SMALL TOWN IOWA

1879 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF ONE YOUNG MIDSHIPMAN'S FORTUNATE FIRST CRUISE ON A SCIENTIFIC MISSION TO THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS AS HE CLIMBS THE RATLINES TO THE ADMIRALTY

1879 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY HARDWORKING, SICKLY BANGOR MAINE SCHOOL TEACHER

1879 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A MAINE WOMAN DETAILING DAILY LIFE IN A SMALL FARMING VILLAGE

1879 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN

1879 CHARMING ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MEMORY AND FRIENDSHIP ALBUM GIFTED TO A WELSH WOMAN ON THE OCCASION OF HER MARRIAGE

1879 - 1885 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A PROMINENT SALEM NEW JERSEY BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBER AND LEADER AMONG THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

1879 & 1883 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES FROM PROMINENT LOCAL FAMILY DETAILING GENEALOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY OF COOPERSTOWN NEW YORK

1878 THROUGH 1889 ARCHIVE OF 5 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES DETAILING THE LIFE AND TIMES AND POLITICS OF A CIRCUIT RIDING UNIVERSALIST PREACHER

1878 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG NEW JERSEY MAN SUFFERING IN AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE

1878 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING THE HARD LIFE OF A YOUNG RURAL WASHERWOMAN AND THE HARDER BURDEN OF GRIEF SHE CARRIES

1878 ORIGINAL JOURNAL AND LEDGER HANDWRITTEN BY C. W. WHEELER, A FARMER FROM HARDWICK, MASSACHUSETTS, PROVIDING A GLIMPSE INTO FARMERS' LIFE, INCLUDING PRICES FOR LABOUR AND PRODUCTS

1878 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF HARD WORK AND THE RURAL PIONEER LIFE

1878 and 1884 ORIGINAL GROUP OF TWO [2] DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG VERMONT MAN TRYING HIS HAND AT MINING AND HOPING TO NOT END UP AMBUSHED BY INDIANS LIKE HIS FATHER

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

1878 - 1879 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL AND HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE TRAGIC AND COMPELLING VOYAGES OF THE BRIG "HARRIET G" AS IT PLIED ITS TRADE TO AND FROM NEW YORK AND VENEZUELA COMPLETE WITH DETAILED NAUTICAL CALCULATIONS AND IN-DEPTH...

1877 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY TITLED 'DIARY OF A GERMAN TOWN' DETAILING THREE ENGLISH JESUS COLLEGE STUDENTS TOURING GERMANY IN AND AROUND BOPPARD

1877 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A SIGNIFICANT PENNSYLVANIA LAWYER WHO WOULD ONE DAY BE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR THE STATE AMONG OTHER NOTABLE POSITIONS OF IMPORTANCE

1877 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A NEW YORK MAN WHO TRAVELS BETWEEN CITIES TO SELL HIS GOODS AND TRAVELS BETWEEN MORAL COMPASS POINTS CHAMPIONING HIS FIDELITY TO HIS GIRLFRIEND WHILE HE MAKES THE ODD DRUNKEN VISIT TO A HOUSE OF ILL REPUTE

1877 ORIGINAL AMERICAN NAVAL RELIC OF A 19TH CENTURY SURVEY OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI HANDWRITTEN BY AN ILL FATED LIEUTENANT

1877 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A 14 YEAR OLD NEW YORK BOY AND DEDICATED, ERUDITE AND ROMANTIC DIARIST