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Journal of a lady’s travels in Georgia

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0133
Abstract

This anonymous journal documents a woman's travels through the state of Georgia in November 1851.

Dates: 1851 November 12-16

Philadelphia weather diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0081
Abstract

This weather diary kept by an unknown resident of Phildelphia, Pennsylvania, contains daily entries, June 1, 1836, to July 31, 1842, recording the temperature and wind direction along with brief comments on the weather. There are monthly rain measurements for 1825 through 1842 recorded "as per gauge kept at the Pennsylvania Hospital" as well as newsclippings documenthing especially severe weather events.

Dates: 1836 June 1-1842 July 31

Diary of an Irish Protestant during the potato famine

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0061
Abstract

This diary was kept by an Irish Protestant between January 1, 1847 and September 9, 1849, who described the potato famine and other turmoil in Ireland.

Dates: 1847 January 1-1849 September 9

Quincy, Massachusetts, diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0021
Abstract

This diary was written by an unknown author in the town of Quincy, Massachusetts, in the early 19th century. The two volumes comprising the diary incude lengthy and detailed entries on business transcations, home life, and social events.

Dates: 1829 January 1-1834 December 17

Travel journal through the Mid-Atlantic

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0142
Abstract

This journal of an early twentieth-century woman contains autograph entries describing eating, drinking, sightseeing, and shopping in New York City and several excursions within the Mid-Atlantic region in the 1930s. The entries are accompanied by numerous black and white photographs of locations visited during her trips.

Dates: approximately 1935 May 5-12