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Mary Wager Fisher Western floral sketchbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0061
Abstract
This sketchbook was created by American journalist and author Mary Wager Fisher (d. 1915) and includes full-color drawings and pencil sketches from the 1870s and 1880s. Most of the drawings depict plants observed around Seattle, Washington, but Fisher also included sketches of buildings, household objects, and people observed elsewhere.
Dates:
1871-1872, 1884-1885; Majority of material found in 1885
Edward F. Smith travel journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0067
Abstract
This travel diary written by Edward F. Smith documents his 1869 journey from Dubuque, Iowa, to Omaha, Nebraska, and further west along the Platte River. The journal also served as a commonplace book and features handwritten quotes and poems, assorted facts, sketches, handwriting exercises, records of financial transactions, and debts owed.
Dates:
circa 1869-870