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North American Women's Letters and Diaries

This collection includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.  The materials have been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies, supplemented by customer requests and more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also includes biographical sketeches of people represented in this database. 

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Diary of Julia Heller

Diary of Julia Heller

Explore Julia Heller’s Boy Friends Book from 1932. Featured in this dairy are descriptions of boy’s Heller is friends with, including their physical appearance, what sports they play, and how Heller met them. Heller also grouped these boys based on certain qualifications such as ones that dance, ones that live near her, and ones she likes better. This diary provides unique insight to male-female relationships in the 1930’s! 

Diary of a Grand tour of Europe and the Middle East, 1850-1852

Diary of a Grand tour of Europe and the Middle East, 1850-1852

One October day in 1850 Mary Kittredge Whitney Degen boarded a ship in New York to set sail on an adventure throughout Europe and the Middle East. This is a collection of Maria’s dairies and letters from her travels in 1850-1852. In them she describes the various evening parties and events she attends as well shopping she’s done, food she’s eaten, artist studios she’s visited, and sightseeing at various landmarks like Sainte Chapelle and Le Jardin des Plantes in France.

Diary of Evelyn L. Jackson

Diary of Evelyn L. Jackson

Read the dairy of a young black school girl as she describes school work, friends, religious observances and her resolutions for the year.

Domestic Life

Domestic Life

Browse through a collection of letters and diaries about the daily life of women in North America from the 18th century to the 20th. Topics include family, marriage, travel, religion, disease, and death.

Oregon Trail

Oregon Trail

Discover life of pioneers and the journey through western America with diaries and letters from women traveling on the Oregon Trail.

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