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Thomas Scattergood journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0177
Abstract

This journal was created by Thomas Scattergood (1748-1814), a Quaker minister, pioneer of mental health reform, and early advocate for the creation of Friends Asylum (later Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It describes his travels to various Quaker Meetings in New Jersey and New York between 1789 and 1792.

Dates: 1789, 1791-1792
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Emily Shore journals

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0104
Abstract

These three manuscripts are the seventh, tenth, and twelfth of twelve journal volumes created by a young Englishwoman named Emily Shore (1819-1839). Shore wrote these journals between October 1836 and July 1839, while she traveled around southern England, the Channel Islands, and Madeira, before dying of tuberculosis in Funchal, Madeira.

Dates: 1836-1839
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Miriam E. Welliver travel diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0172
Abstract

The Miriam E. Welliver travel journal documents this Pennsylvania school teacher's month-long, 5,100 mile automobile trip across 19 states and Canada via handwritten journal entries, black-and-white photographs, postcards, telegrams, plant specimens, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous materials.

Dates: 1934
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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Louisiana--Description and travel 1
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Poor Will’s Pocket Almanack for the Year 1789 1
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South Carolina--Description and travel 1
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Tennessee--Description and travel 1
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Virginia--Description and travel 1
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Women automobile drivers--History--20th century 1
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Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Scattergood, Thomas, 1748-1814 1
Shore, Emily, 1819-1839 1
Society of Friends 1
Welliver, Miriam E. 1
 

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