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Diary by an Oregon woman who lived in Portland, Cannon Beach, and elsewhere. Diary begins when the author was 14 in 1910 and attended Sellwood School in Portland. Entries relate to daily life, school, work, friends, family, and travel.

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Three composition books containing the journal of Alma Olive Huseby Dempsey of Jefferson County, Oregon, kept from December 23, 1915, to March 31, 1918. Includes details of daily life, housework, family, travel, weather, and general community news.

Abstract Two notebooks that belonged to Mary F. Slavin (later Mary F. Prince, 1853-1936) when she was a teenager and then a young woman. Both books include diary entries, though the bulk of the first book consists of clippings of poems and illustrations. Both books include entries describing camping trips Slavin took to the Oregon coast in September 1870 and August 1875. Slavin was the first teacher at Hillsdale School in Hillsdale, Oregon; she married Richard Clarence Prince in 1879, and later lived...

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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.