Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
William F. Wright Civil War Diary
Collection
Identifier: A3132
Scope and Contents
The diary contains daily entries beginning on May 27, 1861, in Iowa and ending on December 25, 1861, in St. Louis at Benton Barracks. The pages are numbered from 1 to 119; misnumbered pages resulted in no page 63. There are two entries for December 25, one of which is out of order on page 93. The diary’s binding has failed, and the pages are loose.
Wright’s friend Henson Thomas wrote two brief diary entries on July 2nd and August 7th on the endpaper in the back of the volume. On...
Dates:
1861 May-Dec
Golden and Patricia Zike Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3357
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a diary, legal documents, souvenirs from the grand opening of St. Louis Union Station in 1985, and a napkin autographed by Liberace. The folders are arranged alphabetically by name. The items date from 1939 to 1985 with large date gaps from 1941 to 1951 and from 1954 to 1984.
Patricia Elmore wrote in a five-year diary from 2 January 1939 to 30 January 1941, when she was a pre-teen schoolgirl. Her entries were sporadic, writing daily for...
Dates:
1939-1985