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Agnes Slemons Travel Diary
Collection
Identifier: MS S2
Scope and Contents
A travel diary written by Agnes Slemons on a trip to Europe with Nan Wade in 1962, giving daily accounts of activities in a "Travels Abroad" diary provided by Cunard Lines. Subsequent entries note dates and locations of later trips.
Dates:
1962-1966
DeWitt Family Archive
Collection
Identifier: MS D7
Scope and Contents
Collection of letters, photographs, and educational materials from the lives of the DeWitt family from Kirksville, Missouri, from the 1890s to 1960s. The archive provides a snapshot of life in Kirksville in the early twentieth century. Most importantly, Dale DeWitt's 1922 correspondence to his mother gives an outsider's perspective of the turmoil in Europe after World War I.
Dates:
1890-1967
Julia M. Ellison Travel Journal
Collection
Identifier: MS E1
Scope and Contents
European travel journal of Kirksville, Missouri, resident Julia M. Ellison, which includes her travel in Germany, Russia, Sweden and Norway. In the summer of 1909, Mrs Ellison made a "spur of the moment" decision to take an extended European trip. This 150 page journal is the diary of a portion of that trip. The first entry, June 16, 1909, was written mid-ocean aboard The President Lincoln of the Hamburg-American Line, and recounts the events leading up to her "unexpected" trip as well as...
Dates:
1909 June 16–1910 February 14
Karl Anton Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS A6
Scope and Contents
Dr. Dale Jorgenson’s research documents for the writing of his book The Life of Karl Anton, 1887—1956. The items he collected include a variety of Karl Anton’s performance programs, newspaper articles, letters (including between Anton and Dr. Albert Schweitzer, a famous theologian and musicologist who was a contemporary of Karl Anton), published works, unpublished manuscripts, and transcriptions of sermons and lectures. There are also photocopies of Anton’s books, articles, and school...
Dates:
1906-2002.
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