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Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Maybelle Caley Barker, Nadine Noble Sondergard and friends about health issues, weather, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Title for House in Sierra Madre, California.

Two small diaries (6 cm x 14 cm)from American Bridge Company of New York. They belonged to Irving Dickinson (unknown relation to Caley) contain regular entries on weather observations, receipt of letters from family, and health issues.

Letters about health issues, costs of groceries, meals and dining, women's fashions, women's employment opportunties, weather, work stories, and updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased) from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble. Numerous letters from Hilda Caley Noble to Mary Davidson Caley during trip to Painesville, Ohio (1918).

Weekly letters from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble from Ohio about health issues (deaths from Spanish Flu outbreak), shopping, cost of groceries, meals and dining, fashion, weather, farm operations in Ohio, World War I Armistice Celebrations, women's employment, updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased), working with Red Cross, anti-Catholic feelings.

Small (6 x 10 cm) address book (Teepee and Painesville, Ohio cover), contains family birthdays and Christmas gifts from 1947-1948; small black diary (5 x 7.5 cm) 1948 with sporadic entry for January 1948 on social events and dinning out; small notebook(8 x 13 cm) (1922) containing entries on numerous flowers and vegetable planting, blooming and harvesting dates; small red notebook (8.5 x 10 cm) for Christmas gifts (1906); small (8 x 15 cm) red water damaged diary (1911/1912) from Maybelle Caley Barker containing short and long hand script of diary entries by day but not date.

Printed materials: funeral announcements, newspaper articles on Senator Everett Colby (New Jersey), Republican primaries, crime, color prints pages from books, Practical Astrology magazine Gemini (June 1929), Isle of Man picture Calendar (1959), Magazine of World Manx Association, (June 1927), Oregon Schedule of Events (1967), Bonneville Dam brochure (1965).

Scope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 20 cm), red brick, 1915, (1920, 1921), partial and full page daily entries, on her activities in Sierra Madre, California; playing tennis, dancing lessons, Courtship with Harry Barker (future husband), sparse mention of local, national or world events("Lusitania sunk by Germans probably means war"(8 May). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues, lunches and social activities, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Appears as though diary may have been double used, edited or updated in 1916-1921; entries in pencil. Uses shorthand for some entries in diary for sensitive items or practicing,and some French language entries. No entries 18 July - 17 August, 20 AUG - 3 September, 6-21 November. Updates from 1920 and 1921 include family and friends updates on marriage and death. Comments written after reading in 1937 and 1959. Diary (14 x 19.5 cm) green, 1959, writer was 70 years old, partial and full page daily entries (except for vacation during September) on her activities; sparse mention of local, national or world events (disliked raising taxes-voted against school tax, local crimes, bus strike, meat-cutters strikes); weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard ("invalid of the family" (31 March), historical society business and tours, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and contains genealogical information on last two pages.

Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, Nadine Noble Sondergard, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, social activities. Correspondence from Church activities, Prohibition activities (1914),World War II Home front activities in California (1942).

Photographs in family portrait settings of Maybelle Caley Barker with Marian Shaw, Mattie Spencer, Marian Brant, Gertrude Seaman, (Maybelle as child in 1895).