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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Aaron D. Riker Civil War journal

 Collection
Identifier: M341
Abstract

Civil War journal of Aaron Denton Riker (July 19, 1830-July 25, 1914) who served in the 66th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Riker's Civil War journal (circa 1861-1864) describes skirmishes, battles, and places including Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Harper's Ferry, Gettysburg, and Sherman's march on Atlanta.

Dates: 1861-2015; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1865
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Bowdoin family collection

 Collection
Identifier: M015
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of correspondence, both personal and professional, as well as business, financial, and political documents, including wills and other materials concerning the Bowdoin estate.

Dates: 1687 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1687 - 1848
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Chandler-Cleaveland family papers

 Collection
Identifier: M029
Abstract The collection documents three generations of the personal and, to a lesser extent, professional lives of the Chandler-Cleaveland family. The collection includes extensive information about Peleg Whitman Chandler and Martha Ann Bush Cleaveland, who married in 1837, as well as their son, Horace P. Chandler, and his two daughters, Grace and Ellen. There is also materials related to Parker Cleaveland, the father of Martha; Theophilus Chandler, the brother of Peleg; and Charles Peleg Chandler,...
Dates: 1803-1949, undated
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Charles Henry Foster journals

 Collection
Identifier: M065
Abstract

Contains a "Manuscript of Original Compositions."

Dates: 1843-1852
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Civil War miscellany

 Collection
Identifier: M131
Abstract

Miscellaneous Civil War material from various sources, including correspondence, diaries, photographs and printed material.

Dates: 1861-1927, undated
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Diary

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .C374
Scope and Contents

Daily entries, October 21, 1862, to July 6, 1863, of a captain of the 22nd Maine Infantry, covering the period from his departure from Bangor, Me., until his death in the Port Hudson campaign

Dates: 1862-1863
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Diary

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .S443
Scope and Contents

Diary of a Massachusetts clergyman, including details of marriages and deaths of his parishioners

Dates: 1880-1883
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Diary

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .C773 D5
Scope and Contents

Bound typescript diary of Bowdoin College's professor of chemistry and minerology recording daily local and national events on and off campus as the U.S. entered World War I

Dates: 1917-1918
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Diary

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .D3859
Scope and Contents

Entries, dated at Geneva, Budapest, and other European cities, 20 Dec. 1918-6 Mar. 1919, concerning Davis's experiences with the American Commission to Negotiate Peace Mission to Austria, including descriptions of austere living conditions in Vienna and impressions of various officials and delegations involved in the peace negotiations

Dates: 19--
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Diary no. 8

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .E363
Scope and Contents

Bound diary, January-December 1846 recording life in the Boston, Mass., area, detail domestic affairs, Whig politics and Daniel Webster, railroad expansion, and the Mexican-American War

Dates: 1846
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

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