Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest
Found in 92 Collections and/or Records:
Elsie Corbit Woods diary
Collection
Identifier: Coll 125
Abstract
Diary of a woman from southern Illinois who came to Oregon to join her husband, William Patrick Woods, in 1937. Brief entries include details of everyday life, housework, cooking, work at the telephone company in Illinois, family, friends, travel, and the author's emotional life.
Dates:
1934-1938
John Work papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 319
Abstract
Typescript copies of journals and correspondence of John Work, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company who explored the Pacific Northwest in the 1820s and 1830s. The materials were collected by Isaac Burpee in the 1940s for use in a publication. Also included are Burpee's research notes and microfilm containing copies of John Work's original journals of 1823-1835 and a transcription made in 1945.
Dates:
1823-1945; Majority of material found within 1823-1835