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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Elizabeth Albee Brooks Diary

 Collection — Box BW 59: [Barcode: X031674512], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16890
Content Description This collection contains the diary of Elizabeth Albee Brooks (1828-1869) from 1865. Brooks was an artist in training who lived in Medford, Massachusetts. The diary has an inscription in the front endpaper that reads "With many happy new years from her loving Auntie. Medford." The diary contains 124 entries handwritten in pencil graphite. It documents and gives insights into the experiences of adult, single women in suburban Northern communities as the Civil War came to a close. The diary...
Dates: 1865

Louisa J. Pratt pocket diary (Addition 35) 2024-0058, [1859]

 File — Box 10: [Barcode: X032669465], Folder: 4
Scope and Contents This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a small pocket diary with ownership signature of "Louisa J. Pratt, New Paltz Landing, New York to front endpaper with an early 20th-century hand adding to pastedown and endpaper, "born 1846" and "13 years old." The diary contains 366 pages in legible hand. It focuses on the many losses she experiences across 1859 and her youthful awakening to...
Dates: [1859]

UVA History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building--addition 76 Mary Amidon commonplace book

 Unprocessed Material — Box MSS 16758_NewAdditions_02: [Barcode: X032762575], Folder: ViU2025-0003_001
Identifier: ViU-2025-0003