Title:: Mina Barnhouse Diary 19451945

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Mina Barnhouse Diary, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
0.01
Creator:
Barnhouse, Mina arrangement
Language:
The papers are in: English
Preferred citation:

Mina Barnhouse Diary, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Diary titled "Covered Wagon Days, As Written by Mina Barnhouse," documenting a family's 1895 move from Kansas to Flathead Valley near Kalispell, Flathead County, Montana as part of a larger wagon train. The diary was written in 1945 and it is not clear whether it is a transcription of a 1895 document or whether it was composed 50 years after the event based on memory or oral histories. Several clippings from newspapers, magazines and also postcards are glued into the diary.For a more detailed description and excerpts provided by the seller see box list link below.

Biographical / historical:

Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Mina Barnhouse">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Mina Barnhouse</a>.

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 05/05/2009.
Processing information:

Accessioned and described in May 2009 by Ute Schechter.

Physical description:
1 vol.