Diaries and Journals

Various places, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. Small chip from top of back cover. 60pp occupied; pictorial items throughout. Grace Adams got around. The memorabilia in her scrapbook comprise many photographs, menus, postcards, brochures, souvenirs, etc. Her extensive collection of ephemera from her student life on college campuses includes professional photographic views, course materials, social life and activities, candid shots, etc., beginning in 1935 at the University of Maine.1936, University of New Hampshire.1937, Univ of Virginia.1938, Univ of Wisconsin. Her vacation material includes brochures, paper mementos and photos from Ocean City, New Jersey, a 1940 cruise to Havana, a 1941 cruise to Quebec and Montreal, and a 1948 cruise to Nassau and Bermuda. Also present is material from Orono and Bangor, Maine; Skyline Drive, Virginia; Wisconsin Dells; caverns; etc. Wherever she went, Grace gathered mementos of her trip and pasted them into this scrapbook. Bound in cork covers with cork cutouts of geese in flight mounted on the front, comb-back binding. 13.5" x 10.5". more information

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Not published, 1981. Original. Soft Cover. Good. Pictorial paper covers are pocket-worn. Approx 60+ pages, handwritten, few drawings in text. Subjects include: explosives, antitank weaponry, camouflage, hand signals, capturing enemy soldiers, nuclear-biological warfare, etc. 5.5" x 3.25". more information

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Fort Benning, Georgia: Not published, 1970. Original. Soft Cover. Good. Pictorial paper covers and text are shaken. 94pp; handwritten, few drawings in text. Subjects include: first aid, weaponry, camouflage, explosives, poison and gas antidotes, evasion techniques, etc. Good detail. 5.5" x 3.25". more information

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Norwich, CT, 1927. Full-Leather. Very Good. The entries are in a small, neat hand, in blue ink, and are easy to read. Begins March 25, 1927: "Bought Marmon [automobile] - list $1,895 - 3% war tax, $56.85 - freight, $71 - extra tire & cover, $27.15 - total $2,050." Cardwell records 11 grease & oil changes during the year: mileages, gasoline, etc. "Bought Little Marmon No. 808895 from Mr. Beach, N. London, speedometer read 6...Arrive Norwich 27...Alice short ride 30...Bill Spalding short ride 50." The next 27 pages document where Mr. Cardwell drove, and with whom, including a trip to Plymouth and Cape Cod, &c., and finally reaching 8173 on the speedometer by the end of December. This is an excellent record of the costs incurred in buying and maintaining a car in the US in 1927. 4.5" x 2.5 more information

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Norman: U of Oklahoma Press, 1989. First American edition. Original Cloth. Fine. pp: xxi, 294, index. Contains 4,925 entries, many annotated. 10" x 7.5 more information

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Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987. First edition. Original Cloth. Fine. pp: xiv, 230, author and subject indices. Entries are chronological from 1669 through 1982. 9.5" x 6 more information

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Holliwood: Not published, 1926. Original. Hardcover. Good. Gilt-pictorial leather binding, worn at edges. Headpiece illus throughout; 30pp of entries. Many of the guests are repeat visitors from various places in Minnesota, Milwaukee, Chicago, etc. Sample comments: "a palace at the Hollisters"; "Holliwood is an ideal place to spend a vacation"; "Boy, those eats"; "What a lake!"; various references to fishing in the lake; "Sept. 3, 1939--England declared war on Germany--When and how will it end?"; etc. 8.25" x 7". more information

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Hornellsville, NY: Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers, 1902. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good. pp: 45 + 97; engraving of locomotive. Bound in the original wallet-style case of cordovan leather; carried in a pocket and showing some signs of use. Begins with 45 pages of printed text, "...giving the Proper Method of Firing both Bituminous and Anthracite Coal, together with Rules for Operating the Westinghouse Air & American Steam Brakes...also Rules regarding Accidents to the Locomotive." Following the text are 97 pages of handwritten time and cash accounts, kept by Engineer G.C. Northrop, giving day-by-day details of engine numbers, miles run, times, names of conductors and engineers/firemen, embarkation points and destinations. Also filled in is the section of cash accounts (dates, amounts owed and received, payees, etc.). Finally, several pages contain notes on railroad happenings in 1905-1906 (personnel hurt, killed, buried). 6.5" x 4 more information

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Various Places, 1958. leatherette. Very Good. 131pp, hand written. Mrs. Larson's accounts of meals, souvenirs, hotels and prices are detailed. She takes lots of photos on this trip and makes extensive tours on foot. After a one-week sail on the SS Saturnia, she arrives at Lisbon, tours the city, comments on the food, then goes by seaplane to Funchal, Madeira and spends 12 days there, taking snapshots, enjoying cocktails and dinners, and nightclubbing with new acquaintances (including one man whom she describes in her pre-diary notes as "homosexual mink"). Then it's on to Las Palmas, Canaries by seaplane, a car-tour to Tejedas, detals of banana plantations in Arucas, etc. After a brief stay at Tenerife, she bums a free ride back to Las Palmas on a German freighter. On March 26, she flies to Madrid, then back to Lisbon, and a "trip north" by car to Aljubarrata, Bussaco, Coimbra and Fatima, returning to Madrid. Then she's off on an "Andalusia trip" including Seville and Merida, a bus tour to Granada and Cordoba, and on to Alicante, Valencia and Barcelona (bullfight, dining with sailors, nightclubbing, &c.). After sightseeing in Segovia and Avila, she flies to Rome, entrains for Florence, on to Naples, an "Amalfi drive" to Sorrento and Pompeii, then off to Capri. Finally, she trains back to Rome, flies to Paris (Lido and Follies), then by train to Brussels and the Exposition, a Cook's tour of Bruges and Ghent, flight back to Paris, and home. As an unsophisticated but eager traveler, Mrs. Larson offers an interesting point-of-view. 6.75" x 4". more information

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Berkeley: U of California Press, 1945. 1st Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: xiv, 383, index. Contains thousands of annotated entries. 9.5" x 6" more information

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Lampeter: not published, 1922. Original manuscript. Full Calf. Very Good. Wallet-style account book, 7" x 4". Entries cover about 94 pages, for example: 800 lbs coal @ .60 / $4.80; 13 hrs steam beds / $13.00; 8 hrs steam / $8.00; 2 hrs saw wood / $4.00; 1 man, 6 hrs @ .30 / $1.80; set up machine & baler / $10.00; 431 bales @ 80 lbs = 17 ton 480 lbs @ 2.00 / $34.48; 12 hrs fill solo / $24.00; 3 hrs set up cutter / $1.00; 10 hrs drill / $9.00; 10 ft belt lacers @ .04 / $ .40; 10 hrs crush / $9.00; 5 gal coal oil @ .18 / $ .90; 1 trip to Lancaster in truck / $ .50; &c., &c. It would seem that Meck's steam traction engine made the rounds of farms in the Lampeter area of Lancaster County. Names of customers in the book include: Bernard Ehrhart, Wm. Redcay, John & Ellis Weaver, Kate Landis, Harry & David Huber, George Harnish, Isaac Hollinger, Sam & Frank Lefever, Ross & Enos & Walter Herr, Frank Snavely, Benjamin Christ, Frank Nonnanmocher, David Book, Rufus Singer, and many others. more information

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Plum Township, PA: not published, Circa 1840s & early 1850s. Original manuscript. Leather-backed marbled boards. Good. Tablet format, lined paper, 3.75" x 6", entries occupy about 60 pages. Includes receipts for farm goods and services such as "holing oar," rafting, plowing, threshing, "holing rails," chopping wood, cutting slabs for the Still House, &c. The binding is worn but intact, and a few pages are soiled. Names of those with whom Miller had business include: Mary Jenkings, James & John Sturd, John Smith, Robert & John & Joseph Logan, Edward & William Couch, Gilbert Chany, John Leweston, Robert Cumming, John Hofner, and others. more information

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Lancaster County: not published, Dec. 25, 1894 to June30, 1896. Original manuscript. Original Cloth. Good. Lined paper, 4" x 2.5", entries in pencil. Student's notebook, author not identified, but entry at back states: "E.K. Shoop, teacher in the year 1899." The early pages are taken up with notations on the daily weather. Later on is a handwritten list of US presidents from Washington through McKinley. About 16 pages have been used. In the original black cardstock slipcase with stub pencil. Printed on the cover: "Compliments of D.P. Stackhouse, Boots & Shoes, 28 & 30 E. King St., Lancaster, PA. more information

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Columbus, OH: Not published, 1908. Original. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes, leather spines and corners worn, contents in very good condition. pp: 200 + 295. All of the pages are filled with handwritten entries. The Auxiliary, who met at Memorial Hall in Columbus, had as their main purpose: "Loyalty to their beloved flag and the Spanish War Veterans." These books contain complete, formal minutes, handwritten by several secretaries over the years. Included are: elections of officers; reports of the officers as well as the chaplain, conductor, pianist, etc.; reports on parties, lectures, fundraisers, bazaars, services, card club, and many ritual ceremonies. An extensive record of this women's group. 10.5" x 8". more information

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