Cardboard box with over fifty handwritten recipes and receipts, mostly from the 19th century. Someone has written on the box in pencil "Old papers, 1836, mostly old recipes." I did find a few dated items in the box, with the oldest being 1831 and running to 1915. They come from.....
Handwritten diary from 1926 by a man who worked at Heywood Wakefield in Gardner, Massachusetts. He appears to be a lonely man, and some entries from inside include: "Mental torture, 2 weeks after marriage. Choose between wife and mother." "Tonight is the fourth week that Fid has been.....
Late 1980s to early 1990s handwritten journal by a teenage boy as he finishes high school and begins classes at Utica college. He talks of girls, not getting along with his father and overall angst. Interspersed between the diary entries are mix-tape song lists, including bands like the Doors, Aerosmith.....
1939. 3.5" x 5.25" lovely little drawing of two people in sweaters passing a book between them and knitting. On the back is her little letter in lovely penmanship and learning-English vernacular: "Very dear parents, I ben pleased you a little letter in English whrite. How do you do? I......
10.5" x 16" Police Blotter from the 35th Precinct in New York City, with 600 pages, which was used from August 10, 1918 to October 7, 1918. Pasted inside the front cover it says “This Blotter was opened at 12 am, August 10, 1918, and contains consecutively numbered pages from.....
Two 6.75” x 8.25” Composition books used as diaries. One diary has the name "Eugenia F. Phelps” written on the cover, and there is writing throughout both books with over 100 double-side pages used. Eugenia turned 21 in 1915, lived at home with her parents in Staten Island, and frequently.....