Overview
Diary from the year 1894 by an anonymous woman living in the West Newbury area of Vermont, featuring daily entries that record the weather and her daily activities as well as those of her family, including maple sugaring, churning butter, and gardening.
Dates
- Creation: 1894
Creator
- Anonymous (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Anonymous as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
1 folderThe collection consists of one diary from the year 1894 by an anonymous woman living in the West Newbury area of Vermont. The diary contains short daily entries that record the weather and her daily activities as well as those of her family. She describes maple sugaring, churning butter, gardening, and making mincemeat and sausage, as well as household repairs and visits from friends and neighbors. She mentions Robbie chopping wood and haying, and going with her mother "to meeting," possibly town meeting. In addition, she mentions the death and funeral of her father. The name "Peggy Palimeno" is written inside the front cover in different handwriting; this name is most likely not the name of the diary's author.
BIOGRAPHY
The anonymous writer of this diary lived on a farm in the West Newbury area of Vermont. She lived with a man, "Robbie," who was most likely her husband.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 2020-M105
The diary of Anonymous was acquired from DeWolfe and Wood in October 2020.
Processing Information
Processed: November 2021
By: Paula Aloisio
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
Creator
- Anonymous (Person)
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by gifts from the Pforzheimer Fund for the Schlesinger Library and Class of 1957 Schlesinger Library Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch02089
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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