Diaries
Found in 81 Collections and/or Records:
Robert Gilmor Jr. papers
This is an artificial collection of manuscript material that began with Robert Gilmor, Jr.'s first donation in 1845. These include letters and journals, family histories, memorandums, and miscellaneous autographs.
Rose papers
The papers in the Rose family collection span from 1877 to 1918. The materials consist of mostly letters and diaries, with a few invitations, a speech, a Confederate note, and a telegram. They have been arranged into two series: the papers of Douglas Hall Rose, and the papers of John Carter Rose.
Shriver collection
The Shriver collection consists of daybooks, ledgers, cash books, and other accounts of the Shriver family businesses at Union Mills, Carroll County, Maryland (flour milling, saw millings, tanning, stores at Petersburgh and Big Pipe Creek). A majority of the collection is comprised of correspondence between the various members of the Shriver family concerning business and family happenings.
Shriver family papers
This collection concerns the history of the Shriver family residing at Union Mills Homestead in Carroll County Maryland, from 1797 to 1957, the bulk of which is correspondence.
Shriver family papers
This collection consists of the papers of George M. Shriver, Vice-President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and his family, 1873-1908.
Steiger family papers
This collection contains the papers of William Tell Steiger (1801-1888) and his wife, Hannah Van Patten Steiger (fl. 1865-1900), both of Brightwood Farm near Laurel in Howard County, Maryland. This collection well documents the agrarian lifestyle that characterized pre-industrial America.
Treva Walkling collection
This collection consists of the diaries, photographs, correspondence, financial records, address books, and ephemera belonging to Treva Walkling (1909-1997), a Baltimore career woman.
Wayne F. Hoffman journal
This collection contains the journal of Wayne Franklin Hoffman, a seaman in the United States Navy during the Philippines campaign, World War II. Hoffman records his movements beginning with his enlistment in 1944 and ending in 1946, by which time he has resumed civilian life. The journal notably contains Hoffman's daily record of the U.S. invasion of Leyte and Luzon in the Philippines, as well as various naval engagements in the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa.
William Faris diary
Diary covering the last thirteen years of silversmith and clockmaker William Faris' (1728-1804) life in Annapolis, Maryland.