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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 92 Collections and/or Records:

Harley McDonald diary

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 948
Abstract

Bound manuscript diary kept by Harley McDonald, documenting his voyage on the ship Hopewell and part of a voyage on the ship Hurricane.

Dates: 1849-1851

Peter Holt Hatch papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1124
Abstract

Papers of an emigrant to Oregon who lived in Oregon City and Salem. Includes extensive diaries, 1874-1897; account books, 1866-1893; and correspondence, genealogies, and ephemera. Also includes Peter Holt Hatch's letter proposing marriage to Sarah Cornelia Locey, his second wife; and a scrapbook of Edwin Thompson Hatch, son of Peter Hatch.

Dates: 1843-1991; Majority of material found within 1843-1897

Henry E. Hayes diary

 Collection
Identifier: Coll860
Abstract

Original and typescript of Henry E. Hayes' diary, which covers his time gold mining near Nevada City, California, his coming to Oregon in 1851, and his activities making shingles in Clackamas County. Hayes (1831-1919), who was born in Hartford, Connecticut, eventually became a steamboat pilot, and had a farm at Stafford, Oregon.

Dates: 1850-1852

E. R. Helig diary

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1312
Abstract

Manuscript diary, January 5-25, 1899, kept by E. R. Helig while on board the schooner Charles L. Davenport, traveling down the Delaware River to Santiago, Cuba.

Dates: 1899

John Bunker Hemey diary

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2605
Abstract

Manuscript diary regarding overland journey from Illinois to California.

Dates: 1864

Judson Himes diary

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 753
Abstract

Diary kept by Judson Himes of Olympia, Washington.

Dates: 1870-1871

Journal of the brigantine Hope

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2885
Abstract

Photocopy extract from the journal of Joseph Ingraham describing the voyage of the Brigantine Hope from Boston to the Northwest coast of America.

Dates: 1790-1792

David S. Hoyt journal

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2865
Abstract Entries in a journal begun by David S. Hoyt to record "observations on an expedition through Oregon and Washington territories and the Rocky Mountains for the exploration of the Northern Route for the Pacific Rail Road in the Summer and Autumn of 1853." The journal consists only of several pages of entries dated from June 22, 1853, to June 27, 1853. The entries describe Hoyt's journey by ship from San Francisco, California, up the Pacific Coast and the Columbia River to Vancouver,...
Dates: 1853

Martin Luther Kimmel papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2201
Abstract

Papers of Martin Luther Kimmel consist of a manuscript diary, September-December 1917, of his enlistment at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, and training at various Army posts in the U.S., with typescript transcript; and correspondence regarding Kimmel's book "The Torchbearers," 1966-1967.

Dates: 1917-1967

Alexander Lattie papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 540
Abstract

Reproductions of papers of Alexander Lattie (1802-1849), including a journal he kept while stationed at Fort George (also known as Fort Astoria) in the Oregon Territory. Lattie was a Scot who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company.

Dates: 1846-1851