diaries
Found in 162 Collections and/or Records:
Edward L. Bushnell diary and notebook
Collection includes manuscript diary, 1895, regarding a prospecting trip to Yukon along with four partners from Bridal Veil, Oregon; and a manuscript notebook, 1888-1897, with accounts, song lyrics, and poems.
John F. Calbreath papers
Papers of John Franklin Calbreath, an Oregon physician and state senator, including family letters of Sidney and Mianda Smith, John U. Smith, and Irene Smith Calbreath; political letters from John H. Mitchell and George W. McBride; a copy of an 1839 overland journal of Sidney Smith; accounts and notebooks of John Franklin Calbreath; and biographical and genealogical materials.
Mary Evelene Calbreath papers
Mary Evelene Calbreath (1895-1972) was a music teacher and composer in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, musical programs, articles, genealogy, ephemera, daybook, landscape album, diaries, and score.
W. W. Carl papers
Papers of W. W. Carl (1869-1938), a carpenter and farmer who lived in the area of Carlton, Oregon. The bulk of the papers consists of diaries that Carl kept from 1897 to 1905. Other papers include information about materials used for buildings he helped to construct; descriptions of land that his mother, Mary J. Carl, willed to him; and transcriptions of his diary entries, made by his great-grandson, John A. Beutler.
Caroline Couch Hoffman papers
Collection includes materials of and relating to members of the Couch, Burns, Hoffman, and Wilson families, as well as the Hoffman Construction Co. The papers include diaries of Caroline Couch Hoffman and Mary Caroline Burns, and correspondence of various family members. Also included are obituaries and ephemera, as well as publications about the history and projects of the Hoffman Construction Co.
Jonathan Carver diary of his travels
Photostat manuscript, "Journals of the Travels of John Carver," recounting an English soldier's explorations of the areas of Wisconsin and Minnesota from 1766 to 1768, with observations on Native Americans living in those areas.
John L. Casteel diaries
John L. Casteel was born in Randolph, Nebraska. He taught speech at the University of Oregon and the Union Theological Seminary in New York. Collection includes diaries describing Casteel's life in Randolph; his teaching career; his daughter, Margaret, and son, John Alden; and other topics.
Albion P. Chenery diary
Diary of Albion P. Chenery, with entries containing information on topics including his childhood, his voyage to California in 1849, steamboating, mining activities, fruit farming, manufacturing, and other activities, mostly near Butteville, Oregon.
Justin Chenoweth papers
Handwritten diary, letterbooks, and documents relating to Justin Chenoweth's travel to Oregon and work as a surveyor, mail carrier, and justice of the peace in Oregon and Washington Territory, primarily from the years 1848 to 1862. Includes family correspondence.
Orange Marcus Clark collection
Collection consists of a typescript copy of a diary, March-July 1914, of a trip to Europe and North Africa, with comments on roads and road building in Europe and Oregon; a typescript biography of Orange Marcus Clark, circa 1929; and a typescript copy of an obituary for Clark, 1929. Also included are insurance policies issued to O.M. Clark and Wilson W. Clark, 1917-1931.