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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:

Nathan Wesley Wright Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-70
Scope and Contents

The Wright diaries consists of diaries for the years 1879-1885.

Dates: 1879-1885

Nathaniel Carter Diary

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-23
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a diary written by Nathanial Carter. Carter regularly reflects on his progress in religious life and reports on what happened in his meeting. He also is a typical farmer, giving close attention to the weather and the markets for crops. Finally, he chronicles his community, recording events in the lives of family and neighbors, especially births, deaths, and marriages. The Carter diary was a gift from the Rev. Floyd L. Cook of Indianapolis some time before 1975.

Dates: 1844-1849; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1970

Rachel Osborn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-165
Scope and Contents

The collection includes journals of her sermons (primarily from the 1960s and 1970s), personal diaries, scrapbooks from her travels to Colorado and England, family photographs, travel journals from missionary work, correspondence primarily pertaining to her work as a minister, and several original holiday plays written by Osborn. Also included in the collection is a subsection of material gathered by Jody Richmond who planned to write a biography of Osborn that never came to fruition.

Dates: 1930-1999

Sumner A. Mills Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-83
Scope and Contents The Sumner A. Mills Papers is a small but important collection of materials relating to a leading Indiana Friend of the twentieth century. It is especially useful for the reconstruction work of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in France in 1918-1919. The Mills Collection includes two diaries of Sumner Mills, one at Earlham College for 1917-1918, the other, much more detailed, of his work in France in 1918-1919. Also included is a large album of photographs taken in France, and...
Dates: 1917-1930; Other: Date acquired: 05/01/1998

Swain-Stanton-Logue Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-169
Abstract

The Swain-Stanton-Logue Collection reflects the lives of three generations of Quaker families connectedf with the Salem Friends MeetingĀ  in Union County, Indiana, between 1848 and 1927: their business and financial dealings, farm life, and their interests in spiritualism.

Dates: 1848-1927; Other: Majority of material found in 1880-1927; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2012

Thomas W. Barnett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-60
Scope and Contents

The Barnett Collection consists of a copy of his diary for the years 1863-1870.

Dates: 1863-1984

Union County, Indiana, Farmer Diary

 Collection — Box 31: [Barcode: SC 350-360]
Identifier: SC-358
Abstract

Diary of an unidentified farmer in Union County, Indiana, for the year 1868.

Dates: 1868-1868; Other: Majority of material found in 1868; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2013

Warner-Winder-Calvert Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-78
Scope and Contents The Warner-Winder-Calvert Papers consist of account books, diaries, letters, photographs, and other manuscripts of six generations of Quaker families in Ross and Clark counties, Ohio. The most significant materials reflect farm life in the Midwest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The earliest document in the collection is the account book of John Winder (1736-1819), a Friend born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who married Margaret Briggs (1740-1812). In 1795 he led a party...
Dates: 1794-1951; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1994

Wilfred V. Jones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-32
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a scrapbook about Jones' year at the Imperial University in Tokyo in 1926-27 as a goodwill ambassador, a diary of travels in Spain in 1937, and miscellaneous writings and clippings.

Dates: 1927-1937