A diary of dates, social engagements and ratings of boyfriend from a teenager in Pennsylvania in 1932.

Postcards, fashion clippings and other ephemera illustrate this travel account of a trip to France, England and Scotland just before World War I.

A manuscript showing reactions of Martha Paige to an outbreak of small pox in 1792.

A young black school girl describes school work, friends, religious observances and her resolutions for the year.

Bessie Mattern began her diary when she was 14 and continued it sporadically until she was 32.  Her diary describes her social life and entertainments in Pennsylvania at the turn of the century. 

Ruth Pike's travel journal documents a trip through Europe in the summer
of 1914. Of particular interest are her descriptions of the outbreak
of World War I when she and her companions were stranded in Switzerland. 

Edna May Leasenfeld traveled with her husband to Central America on a
cruise.The diary documents their trip, including numerous
souvenirs.Highlights include menus, baggage tags and a communist pamphlet
handed that was to them in Honduras. 

These images are selected from a 3 volume letter book describing travels through Europe and the Middle-East in 1850, complete with illustrations and flower pressings. Among the events described are a meeting with the Pope and tours of many major cities, including Istanbul, Cairo, Alexandria, and Jerusalem.This diary has been fully transcribed and is published here for the first time

Mary Josephine Lyon's Diary 1899

Mary Josephine Lyon toured France and Italy in 1899.  Her diary not only describes typical tourist attractions, but provides personal perspectives on numerous shopping excursions, taking pleasure trips, bathing, tea parties and other aspects of her social life.