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Unidentified Owner diary, 1916

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 112
Scope and Contents Preformatted pages with sections for 2 days per page. Entries from January 1 1916 to May 20 1916 and June 2 1916 to June 17 1916 and July 21 1916 to October 19 1916. Large section of advertisements at beginning and end of diary. Advertisements spread throughout diary section. Seat plans of various theaters and opera houses in Philadelphia. Large section of tables of various information. Pre-formatted sections for cash accounts and daily expenses. Diary section begins on page 193. Party...
Dates: 1916
Found in: Bryn Mawr College / Diaries

Ms. Ferry diary, 1932

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 113
Scope and Contents

Pre-formatted pages with sections for each day of 1932. Diary completely filled out with scrawled notes on every page, including end papers.

Dates: 1932
Found in: Bryn Mawr College / Diaries

Anna Maria Hickson diary, 1838-1839

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 193
Scope and Contents A gem of a diary kept by a girl of 14, the intelligent and sophisticated daughter of a prominent upper middle-class family growing up on a country estate in early Victorian England, in fact during the first year of the reign of Queen Victoria. The diary, a closely wrottem 150-page document, evokes the genteel society of the period, and does so with real presence, while also making a poignant personal statement. There are many interesting narratives here--of education: French lessons, dancing...
Dates: 1838-1839
Found in: Bryn Mawr College / Diaries

Joseph Bean diary

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 98 f
Scope and Contents

Elaborate custom housing. Titled: The Spiritual Diary of Joseph Bean. February 1741 to January 1744. Every page filled with cramped script in ink. Sometimes difficult to decipher. Many passages crossed out by owner. Different papers used for each gathering, different paper quality and color noticable. Full transcript of diary available.

Found in: Bryn Mawr College / Diaries

Unidentified Owner diary, 1895

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 194
Scope and Contents Has 247 hand numbered pages recording travel through Europe from June through December 1895. Many locations are listed along with each entry, including: Edinburgh, Furrness Palace Hotel, Braemar, York Station Hotel, Bull Hotel, Cambridge, London, Holland, Berlin, Wittmoch, Potsdam, Heidelberg, etc. The diary contains some recipes, addresses, a section of autographs, and a log of correspondence. Written in both ink and pencil by one hand. Three small faded photographs. Multiple newspaper...
Dates: 1895
Found in: Bryn Mawr College / Diaries

Unidentified Owner diary, 1945-1987

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 195
Scope and Contents

Page a day diary partially filled by unidentified owner, graduate of Bryn Mawr College. Page a day format not used. Entries dated from 1945 to 1987. Mix of hands. Combination of pencil and ink. Entries describe travels, shows attended, shopping trips, etc.

Dates: 1945-1987
Found in: Bryn Mawr College / Diaries

Frances Arnold diary, 1908

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 196
Scope and Contents Frances Arnold was a minor member of the Cornish Colony in Cornish, NH where she summered in the early 1900s. This is her diary from 1908 and chronicles her 3 1/2 month Grand Tour of southern Europe, Egypt, and the Middle East where she made daily notes. One of her companions was Louis Comfort Tiffany, famous glass-maker and founder of Tiffany Studios. In the summer she was at Cornish and schmoozed with August St. Gaudens, Fred Maxfield Parrish, Stephen Parrish, Winston Churchill, and...
Dates: 1908
Found in: Bryn Mawr College / Diaries

Anna Van Eps Burdick, 1905

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 197
Scope and Contents Candid manuscript account of a voyage on the Cunard liner R.M.S. Carpathia from New York to Italy and travels in the latter during the spring and summer of 1905 by Anna Van Eps Burdick of New York, in company with her mother, sisters Mary and Katrina, and several other female friends. Burdick's many comments on what she saw are especially important for the light they shed on her own and her group's mindset. Stopping to see Gibralter on their way to Italy, to which they devoted most of their...
Dates: 1905
Found in: Bryn Mawr College / Diaries

Unidentified Owner diary, 1820

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 198
Scope and Contents

A lengthy leather-bound diary written in English by a young man visiting Europe. Covers period May 14 1820 through June 22 1820 giving detailed descriptions and observations of his interests in Flushing, Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Hague, etc. Approximately 52 handwritten pages describing the art, fortifications, construction of dikes, historical background inventions, etc. The back of the book, reversed, contains "Change sur Genes" and "Change sur La Prussie" in French.

Dates: 1820
Found in: Bryn Mawr College / Diaries

Ella M. Cram diary, 1900

 Item — Container: BV (bound volume), item: 199 vol. 1
Scope and Contents Series of manuscript travel diaries, the first diary written by Ella M Cram of Keene, Essex County, NY, while she traveled, July 2 to August 11, 1900 from Ashland, NH, to Boston, Fall River, and New York, thence by steamship to England, where she spent much time in London before moving on to Antwerp, Belgium, Brussels, and Paris (where she toured the 1900 Exhibition), after which she returned to Britain, whence she sailed for the United States on the S.S Lucania--the second and third...
Dates: 1900
Found in: Bryn Mawr College / Diaries
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