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Account book, 1858-1874, Hillsboro and Concord, New Hampshire, listing dollar amounts earned for a variety of different services like taking oxen to pasture, bushels of wheat gathered, horse shoeing, removing wood tree stumps, and so on. Other entries list items purchased, including pork, nails, beef, pewter plates, potatoes, sugar, and beans. Some parts of the volume have been used as an exercise book by a child and a few news clippings can be found glued in front and back.For a list of names mentioned in the account book, compiled by the seller, see folder link below.

Account book, 1928-1929, 473 pp. detailing names of customers, customers location, parts, repairs, costs, and other information relating to the business transactions. Includes a few loose notes and receipts, e.g. from J.C. Moss. Most of the addresses listed in the book are in Virginia (Richmond, Warsaw, Hague, Gloucester, Alexandria). Baltimore, Maryland is also mentioned.Name and address written in pencil inside the front cover is Freddie Gurdy (?), 428 N. Carleton St., Baltimore Md.

Photo album kept by a Boy Scout 'Brownie' in 1953-1954. He documented his troup's trip to Washington, DC and to a plantation in Virginia. The trip was awarded to the winners of a Boy Scouts "E.R.C. Camporee" in 1953. He also took photos during a trip to 'Camp Glen Gray'; a family vacation at 'Lake Valhala'; and an 'educational trip' to New York City with a friend, 1954.Most photos are numbered and content is labeled on pages inserted into the album. Photos on the last few pages are not described.There are a total of 67 photographs, and at least some of them were taken with the Brownie Junior's camera, according the inserted descriptions.

This scrapbook of a female employee at the Colorado River Relocation Center in Poston, Arizona includes photographs, a poem, programs, correspondence, and other material. The Colorado River Relocation Center is also known as the Poston Relocation Center and was one of the sites internment camps created for Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals by the U.S. government during World War II. Poston is located in present day La Paz County, Arizona. The woman who created this scrapbook, which has been disassembled, is presumed to have been a white federal employee. For images of the scrapbook see online link and for a more detailed description see folder link below.

Diaries, 1846-1861, of an unidentified woman of Lakeville, Livingston County in New York State. Other place names mentioned most frequently: East Avon, Albion and Lima and Lakeville Rd. in Avon. The writers mentions the last names of her relatives as Stevens, Jones and Hicks. She also has a sister named Nancy and a brother Charles.The writers describes her chores, like candle making, soap making, spinning and weaving and social calls, health and medical treatments and taking care of sick community members. Also mentioned is a trip to Niagara Falls in the 1840s.For excerpts, provided by the seller, please see finding aid link below.

Two diaries, 1919-1921 and 1921-1922. In daily entries, writer records weather, chores and daily activities, church and social visits, health of friends and family, etc. At the end of each volume there are lists of deaths and weddings, and some accounts, one of which has the heading 'Ladies Aid.' Based on this particular account and on some of the activities described (like making jam for a neighbor) the writer was most likely a women. In front of one volume, and also on some pages scattered throughout the diaries, writer records names and addresses of several people in Clarendon; Chicago, Illinois; Hedgesville, West Virginia; and Bristol, Tennessee.Some of the diary entries suggest that the writer might have been located in the southwestern part of Virginia, or nearby Bristol, Tennessee, but further research is needed to support this claim.

Diaries, 1925 and 1928 of an unidentified Southern Railway employee, who worked in a Washington, D.C. office. Entries cover family, health, social life, weather, food, work, and trips in and around Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia. The writer was a member of the Brotherhood of American Railway Engineers. Some of the entries are rather detailed and give a good impression of the daily life of a mid-level office employee at the time.Also included are notes made by a previous owner regarding possible authorship for the diary as well a news clippings.