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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

Ritchie papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0710
Abstract

This collection contains seventy-six scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings and magazine articles collected by Maryland governor Albert C. Ritchie pertaining mainly to his public life from 1915-1936. This includes pocket notebooks, diaries, notes for speeches, and printed reports.

Dates: 1915-1936

Robert Gilmor Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0387
Abstract

This is an artificial collection of manuscript material that began with Robert Gilmor, Jr.'s first donation in 1845. These include letters and journals, family histories, memorandums, and miscellaneous autographs.

Dates: 1774-1848

Rose papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3058
Abstract

The papers in the Rose family collection span from 1877 to 1918. The materials consist of mostly letters and diaries, with a few invitations, a speech, a Confederate note, and a telegram. They have been arranged into two series: the papers of Douglas Hall Rose, and the papers of John Carter Rose.

Dates: 1877-1918

Shriver collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0750
Abstract

The Shriver collection consists of daybooks, ledgers, cash books, and other accounts of the Shriver family businesses at Union Mills, Carroll County, Maryland (flour milling, saw millings, tanning, stores at Petersburgh and Big Pipe Creek). A majority of the collection is comprised of correspondence between the various members of the Shriver family concerning business and family happenings.

Dates: 1784-1944

Shriver family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2085
Abstract

This collection concerns the history of the Shriver family residing at Union Mills Homestead in Carroll County Maryland, from 1797 to 1957, the bulk of which is correspondence.

Dates: 1774-1957

Shriver family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2085.6
Abstract

This collection consists of the papers of George M. Shriver, Vice-President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and his family, 1873-1908.

Dates: 1873-1908

Steiger family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2501
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of William Tell Steiger (1801-1888) and his wife, Hannah Van Patten Steiger (fl. 1865-1900), both of Brightwood Farm near Laurel in Howard County, Maryland. This collection well documents the agrarian lifestyle that characterized pre-industrial America.

Dates: 1807-1887

Treva Walkling collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2979
Abstract

This collection consists of the diaries, photographs, correspondence, financial records, address books, and ephemera belonging to Treva Walkling (1909-1997), a Baltimore career woman.

Dates: 1893-1998

Wayne F. Hoffman journal

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3291
Abstract

This collection contains the journal of Wayne Franklin Hoffman, a seaman in the United States Navy during the Philippines campaign, World War II. Hoffman records his movements beginning with his enlistment in 1944 and ending in 1946, by which time he has resumed civilian life. The journal notably contains Hoffman's daily record of the U.S. invasion of Leyte and Luzon in the Philippines, as well as various naval engagements in the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa.

Dates: 1944 May 25-1946 August 25

William Faris diary

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2160
Abstract

Diary covering the last thirteen years of silversmith and clockmaker William Faris' (1728-1804) life in Annapolis, Maryland.

Dates: 1792 January 1 - 1804 August 9