Scope and Content The collection is comprised of 96 volumes including mostly diaries and nine scrapbooks dating from 1901 to 1965. There are no diaries or scrapbooks for the years 1904, 1905, 1908, 1918, and 1932. The diaries for 1922 and 1923 and the 1955 scrapbook are incomplete. The collection is arranged chronologically. The diaries are a combination of daily activity journal and scrapbook. They include Gorrell’s daily notes on her activities and also many pasted newspaper...

Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of letters, postcards, and telegrams exchanged by Walter and Clara Kaempf while Walter served as a private in the U.S. Army during World War I. The correspondence spans from c.22 December 1917 to 27 January 1919, with the bulk of the letters dating 1918. The letters are arranged chronologically. The correspondence from December 1917 through May 1918 includes letters and cards only from Walter. He explained in his March 3rd letter that he discarded...