Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Speech given to the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin on February 12, 1954 and printed in Historical bulletin no. 13 of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin.
This book has no author, place of origin, or date, but it is probably American, circa 1850. It is written in two different hands and is indexed in back with numbered pages. There are German, Irish, Siberian, French recipes. There are 130 pages of...
Correspondence detailing the experiences of Joseph Franklin Culver, who served with the Illinois 129th Infantry Regiment, Company A, from 1862-1865, first as a lieutenant and later as captain.
War; Soldiers; Campaigns & battles; Military camps; Military life; Families; Children; Farming
Wilkerson, a young farmer in Hamburg, Iowa, was drafted into the 13th Iowa Infantry, Company C; he left behind his pregnant wife Sarahett to run the farm. He traveled by his estimate more than 5,000 miles to seven states and the District of...
Families; Physicians; Military medicine; Military hospitals; Sick persons; Soldiers; War casualties; Medicines; Amputation; Typhus fever; Harvesting; Food supply; Debt; Swine; Wages; War ships; Death
Correspondence between Dr. Asa Bean and his family while he served as a surgeon in the Union Army in Maryland, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Dr. Bean died of disease on a hospital ship April 26, 1863 as his wife, Mary Bean, was traveling to Memphis to...
Caroline Ledeboer has been published elsewhere online at www.narrative.com and has a poem forthcoming in Sentence, Volume 6. She is currently at work revising a historical children's novel and recording a third CD with the pop-folk musical group,...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.