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Magdalen Club Journal (Coupeville, Washington)
by Magdalen Club (1907 – 1908)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This journal is a record of the Magdalen Club, later named the Swastika Club, which was a group of young girls from Coupeville, Washington in 1907 and 1908. The journal includes names of the club members, descriptions of the duties of club officers, minutes of meetings, and yells and cheers, as well as two photographs of the girls.
Martin and Wright Store Ledger (Martinsburg, (West) Virginia)
by Unknown (1835 – 1837)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
The Martin and Wright Store Ledger documents the financial transactions of the Martinsburg, (West) Virginia general store between 1835 and 1837. At the time, Berkeley County was part of the state of Virginia and many of the homes held slaves. Domestic and imported items purchased from or bartered with the store included daily goods like eggs, coffee, sundries, as well as other items such as coffins, tobacco, and cholera syrup.
Mental Photographs Journal (Woodlandville, Missouri)
by Mitchell, Josephius (1893 – 1897)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This Mental Photographs Journal was compiled between 1893 and 1897 by Josephius Mitchell of Woodlandville, Boone County, Missouri. Each "mental photograph" consists of two pages of questions and answers that offer rich personal details about the respondent. There are 37 individuals who answer the 40 questions listed, one of which includes a photograph.
Minutes of the Airy Hill Literary Society (Lancaster County, Pennsylvania)
by Airy Hill LIterary Society (1886 – 1904)
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The Minutes of the Airy Hill Literary Society document the school group's activities from 1886 to 1892, as well as 1904. The Lancaster County, Pennsylvania students met to debate, recite, sing, and discuss a variety of topics.
Minutes of the Amelia Woman's Club (Amelia, Ohio)
by Amelia Women's Club (1903 – 1904)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
The Minutes of the Amelia Woman's Club, recorded between 1903 and 1904 in Amelia, Ohio, document the meetings of the organization. The minutes contain the names of the club's members, the activities of the organization, interactions with other woman's clubs, and upcoming programs sponsored by members of the organization.
Minutes of the Willing Worker Society of the Congregational Church (Stewart, Minnesota)
by Willing Worker Society of the Congregational Church (1925 – 1935)
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This journal contains the constitution, reports, and minutes of the Willing Worker Society of the Congregational Church in Stewart, Minnesota from 1925 to 1935. The society promoted social and religious welfare through potluck dinners and other events.
Nathaniel Rogers Farley's Account Book
by Farley, Nathaniel Rogers (1827)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This account book was kept by Nathaniel Rogers Farley of Rowley, Massachusetts in 1827 and documents his trade as a cobbler in the putting out system. While the entries in the ledger primarily pertain to the sale of shoes and boots, other entries include commodities such as bushels of corn and potatoes, gallons of rum, tons of hay, cords of wood, pounds of tea and coffee, calico cloth, and pecks of lime.
Pennsylvania Glass Plate Negatives
by Unknown (circa 1900s)
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This collection of 91 glass plate negatives document life around the turn of the 20th century. Most of the photographs were taken from areas around Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with some possibly from New York or New Jersey. Some of the identified photographs include images of the Strawberry Mansion Fountain in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, the Harrisburg Capitol building, Benjamin West's painting of William Penn's 1701 Treaty with the Delaware Indians, the lion statue outside the Garden Zoological Society or Philadelphia Zoo, the Indian statue on Council Rock at Wissahickon Gorge, the William McKinley Monument in Niagara Square, Buffalo, New York, a Great Northern Railway train engine, the statue of Matthias Baldwin, the Washington Monument in Eakins Oval in Philadelphia, an ironclad warship and the Monument to the 90th Pennsylvania Infantry at Gettysburg. The rest of the photographs are of families, homes, towns, railroads, or ships and shipyards.
R.H. Leonard's Laborer Accounts
by Leonard, R.H. (1877)
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This account book was kept by R.H. Leonard in 1877 in Talbotton, Georgia and documents the work and payment of his laborers. Also included are his list of household expenses and store purchases.
Records of the Calliepian Society at the Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School
by Calliepian Society, Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School (1875 – 1879)
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This bound journal contains the records of the Calliepian Society at the Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School (now Bloomsburg University) in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania from September 18, 1875 to June 7, 1879. The minutes document the society of women's weekly business and social meetings that included suppers, festivals, and literary entertainments such as farces, charades, and plays. The organizations debated a new topic every week, which included the American Civil War, traffic in liquor, General Ulysses S. Grant, tobacco use, teachers' compensation, compulsory education, women and "the learned professions," foreign immigrants, Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, extermination of "Amerindians," and many others. The minutes also detail the society's communications with the Institute's President, Dr. T.L. Griswold, faculty members, and the campus adversary-- the Philologian Society.
Records of the Limaville Philomathic Literary Society and the Lima Mutual Improvement Association
by Limaville Philomathic Literary Society (1854 – 1861)
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This bound journal contains the records of two different Ohio organizations at different time periods: the Limaville Philomathic Literary Society from November 9, 1854 to March 29, 1855 and the Lima Mutual Improvement Association from October 15, 1860 to April 8, 1861. The records for both organizations include the constitutions, by-laws, preambles, and minutes. The Limaville Philomathic Society's stated purpose was "the mutual improvement of its members in Literacy and Scientific exercises such as original compositions, declamations, the reading of selected pieces, and debates or polemics." The youth-oriented organizations met weekly at a local schoolhouse and was divided into three classes: Composing, Declaiming, and Polemic. The Lima Mutual Improvement Association was similar in purpose to the Limaville Philomathic Literary Society. Topics of discussion in both organizations include slavery, religion, and the United States, which make the records significant for understanding small Midwestern towns prior to the American Civil War.
Saw Mill and Bobbin Factory Ledger (Scituate, Rhode Island)
by Knight, Richmond (1847 – 1868)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This Saw Mill and Bobbin Factory Ledger was kept by Baptist minister Reverend Richmond Monroe Knight of Scituate, Rhode Island between 1847 and 1868. The mill was founded by Knight's father, Angell Knight. The entries pertain to transactions with local people and the milling and wooden bobbin making activities.