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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1874/1874">1874</unitdate>
    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1884/1884">1884</unitdate>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Job W. Parsons Diaries, A&amp;M 0637, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>566, 598, 637</p>  </relatedmaterial>
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<p>Pocket diary (1874, 1884, 1886-1888, 1893-1894) of Job. W. Parsons, a farmer, lumberman, and stockman of Randolph County. There are daily entries center on routine farm chores, weather conditions, prices, and wages. See A&amp;M 566 for years 1881-1882; and A&amp;M 598 for years 1875-1879, 1880-1883.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="ingest">Farms and farming.</subject>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145843" source="lcsh">Weather</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Parsons, Job W.</persname>
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