Title:: Diary (Connecticut) 1945-1949

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:

Diary (Connecticut), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
0.05
Creator:
arrangement
Language:
The papers are in: English
Preferred citation:

Diary (Connecticut), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Five Year Diary, 1945-1949 by an unidentified author. The entries describe activities typical of a homemaker, which suggests that the writer was a woman.Entries were made on a daily basis and describe weather, cooking and baking, social visits, health, trips, etc. Although no place of residence is given, place names mentioned in the entries like Bridgewater, Bridgeport, Terryville, New Haven, and Roxbury, suggest Connecticut as the writer's state of residence.

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 07/22/2009.
Processing information:

Accessioned and minimally described in July 2009 by Ute Schechter.

Physical description:
1 volume.