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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Diary of Marshall P. Cram

 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 of Owen W. Davis, Jr.

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .D38569
Scope and Contents

Typescript copy of the diary of Owen W. Davis, Jr., from June 17, 1862, to September 27, 1862, recording his experience as an enlisted soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War. Topics include minor skirmishes, court marial duties, capture and parole, and routine duties while stationed in northern Virginia, Washington, DC, and Maryland. Davis (Bowdoin College Class of 1864) left college to enlist with the 7th Squadron, Rhode Island Cavalry

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

Diary of the Reverend Herman Julius Theodor Bruckner for the years 1858-1866

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .H456 D5
Scope and Contents

Duplicated typescript translation of the diary of the editor's immigrant grandfather

Dates: 1974
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Elizabeth Nelson Fairchild papers

 Collection
Identifier: M056
Abstract

Materials relating to the Fairchild family during the period 1870-1885, the bulk concerning Elizabeth Nelson Fairchild's writings.

Dates: 1865-1907 (bulk 1870-1885); Majority of material found within 1870 - 1885
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Jason Collins almanac and daily diary

 Collection
Identifier: M345
Abstract

Daily diary and almanac for 1846 of Captain Jason Collins, engineer on the Sidewheel Steamer, Huntress (main port on the Kennebec River near Gardiner, Maine).

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

John F. Wingate Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .W564
Scope and Contents

A daily record, including mention of the Aroostook war, reading law, travels in Maine, teaching school, the Amistad trial, temperance, and religious concerns by a Brunswick, Maine, resident

Dates: 1838-1844
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

John Hamlin diaries

 Collection
Identifier: M137
Abstract

Diaries, dating from 1846 to 1871, chronicle the life of a farming family in the Raymond, Sweden, and Harrison, Maine area.

Dates: 1846 - 1871
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

John Samuel Leavitt Jr., diaries

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .L438
Scope and Contents

Brief daily entries of John Samuel Leavitt, Jr., a native of Gorham, Maine, detailing his observations before, during, and after his attendance at Bowdoin College (class of 1876)

Dates: 1867 - 1878
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Journal

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .E433
Scope and Contents

Scientific notes and patient accounts, 1860-1868, of a Conway, N.H., physician

Dates: 1860-1867
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Journal kept during my voyage to and from and tour in Europe: Embracing the period of time between April 17th 1849 and January 1st 1850

 Collection
Identifier: M194.P543
Scope and Contents

Manuscript journal describing Josiah Pierce, Jr.'s tour of Europe from April 1849 to January 1850. Pierce travelled by ship from New York City to Portsmouth, England, and then toured around England, Scotland, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and France, visiting many locales on foot. Includes loose notes and an index of places visited, modes of transportation, and distances travelled.

Dates: 1849-1850
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

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