Hilda Caley Noble, Diaries, 1956/1957

Containers:
Box 2, Folder 5
Scope and content:

Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1956, writer was 67/68 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events such as earthquakes, train wrecks, fires, H Bomb detonation (17 May), bomb explosion at bus station (7 June), President Eisenhower heart attack (8-9, 11 Jun), ship collision (26 July); Canasta parties, regular mention of television shows ($64,000 Question). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and mother (Mary Davidson Caley who lives with them), church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (birds) other families' weddings, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle on the margins and use different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), brick red, 1957, writer was 68/69 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events (President Eisenhower inauguration (21 January), Ku Klux Klan cross burning (9 February), President Eisenhower's stroke (26-27 November). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, regular mention of television shows, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard, church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping at the Safeway grocery store, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets, other families weddings, historical society business and tours, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins and used different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black.

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