Notebook or diary containing pen-and-ink sketches and autograph manuscript captions and text documenting the activities and interests of a young, New Haven, Connecticut-area woman over a five month period from September 1893 into January 1894. Sketche...
Description:
Chiefly in English; some material in French.
Subject (Geographic):
New Haven (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Katharine P. and Yale University
Subject (Topic):
Board games, Games--United States, Paper dolls, Women--United States--Social life and customs--19th century, and Young women--United States
Curtis Granville Jackson scrapbook and papers relating to the Boy Scouts
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | 1-2
Image Count:
122
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Collection consists of a scrapbook and other papers. The scrapbook, "My Scouting History," contains autograph and typescript entries, photographs, merit badges and awards, correspondence, and printed ephemera documenting Jackson's membership in an Afr...
Description:
Purchased from Swann Galleries on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2010.
Subject (Geographic):
Camden (N.J.) and Camden County (N.J.)
Subject (Name):
Boy Scouts of America and Jackson, Curtis Granville
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--New Jersey--Camden, Boy Scouts of America--African American membership, and Boy Scouts--New Jersey--Camden
Overland journey across the Plains to Oregon /by William H. Frush, 1850-1852
Image Count:
4
Abstract:
In 1850 Frush traveled from Missouri to Oregon by way of St. Joseph, Blue River, the North Platte, and Fort Laramie, where he met his brother John and Kit Carson. They continued by South Pass, Bear River, Soda Springs, Fort Hall, Fort Boise, the Dalle...
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon --Baker County --Maps, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, and West (U.S.) --Maps