Search Results for: Diary

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	Excerpts from Edwin Nims' Agricultural Diary 1830-1831 L01.029 These five pages from Edwin Nims (1791-1852) agricultural diary, written in 1830-1831 when he was about forty years old, reveal the dailyness and the seasonality of farm chores.
	Excerpts from the Diary of Ruth Pease 1812 L01.049 Ruth Pease (1789-1858) set herself a series of resolutions in her diary, based on the writings of 18th-century Puritan leader, Jonathan Edwards, which she hoped would help her lead a more moral life.
	Excerpts from the Diary of Ellen Louisa Arms (Sheldon) 1859-1860 L01.050 Twelve-year-old Ellen Louisa Arms (1847-1913) began her diary with the notation that an eleven-year-old neighbor boy, John Sheldon (1848-1908), was coming to visit.
	Excerpts from the diary of Elizabeth Babcock Leonard 1841-1850 L01.051 When Elizabeth Babcock Leonard (1810-1892) wrote her diary, she centered it on the activities of her daughter.
	Excerpts from the diary of Elsie M. Putnam 1888 L02.001 Elsie Putnam's diary describes the life of a single Deerfield, Massachusetts, woman in 1888, including a brief mention of the great Blizzard of that year. The diary gives a glimpse into the active life of a young woman of the Victorian era.
	Page from Amasa Jones diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood May 16, 1874 L05.004 When the Williamsburg, Massachusetts, reservoir dam broke, it flooded a valley lined with factories and farms and killed 139.
	Page from Josiah Allen diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood May 17, 1874 L05.005 Josiah Allen, of Deerfield, Massachusetts, heard the news of the Mill River flood in church the next day.
	Page from the"Franklin H. Williams Diary from 1852 to 1891" 1975 L05.014 When the Williamsburg, Massachusetts, reservoir dam broke, it flooded a valley lined with factories and farms and killed 139.
	Pages from the diary of Martha Cochran c. 1858 L05.020 Martha Cochran's diary describes an 1858 abolition meeting in Boston, populated by luminaries of the movement.
	Two pages from diary of Sophronia Grout on Religious Revival c. 1825 L05.073 Sophronia Grout writes about religious revivals which by 1830, had a long history in America

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