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Mary Jean Simpson Diary, 1956
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    • Creator: Simpson, Mary Jean, 1888-1977.
    • Date Created: 1956
    • Description: In this diary, Mary Jean details her first full year in retirement. Her life remains as busy as ever as Mary Jean stays heavily involved in various church and women’s groups. Involvement in the American Association of United Women, the Women’s Missionary Society, and the United Council of Church Women appear most prevalent in this diary. Mary Jean also describes being busy attending meetings for the Burlington Council on World Affairs, the Vermont Women’s Republican Club, and Delta Kappa Gamma. Her diary is also filled with descriptions of housework, cooking meals, and spending time with family and friends. Most notably is the time spent with her cousin Agnes and working in the library with her cousin Jean after church on Sundays. This diary also features a trip taken by Mary Jean to Washington for a WMS event and to visit old friends from her time as a Senate Bill Clerk. Topics in this diary include locomotive and automobile transportation, life in retirement, Women’s Organizations, Church Organizations, Vermont Food culture, and Post-War American politics.
    • Parent Collections: Diaries
    Part of: Diaries


    Mary Jean Simpson Diary, 1946
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      • Creator: Simpson, Mary Jean, 1888-1977.
      • Date Created: 1946
      • Description: In this diary Mary Jean deals with some health issues including a broken ankle and a thyroid illness. She describes being very busy at work, attending meetings such as the Executive Board of the Ladies of the Faculty. She also regularly participates in church and women’s group events. This included traveling to Connecticut for a YWCA and taking part in a search group to find a chairman for the Pulpit Committee at her church. As usual, Mary Jean ends her year with a description of packing gifts and spending Christmas with friends and family. Topics in this diary include Women’s Groups, Church Organizations, injury, illness, and healthcare in the 20th century, and faculty life at UVM.
      • Parent Collections: Diaries
      Part of: Diaries


      Funeral obsequies of the late President Lincoln : in the Congregational Church Rutland, Vt. ... April 19th, 1865
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        • Date Issued: 1865
        • Description: Newspaper's extra announcing the assassination of the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1865.
        • Parent Collections: Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera


        General order no. 1 ... Samuel W. Thayer, of Burlington, is hereby appointed Surgeon General of the State of Vermont, with the rank of Brigadier General
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          • Creator: Vermont. Adjutant and Inspector General's Office., Thayer, Samuel White, 1817-1882., Washburn, Peter T. (Peter Thacher), 1814-1870., Dillingham, Paul, 1799-1891.
          • Date Issued: 1865
          • Description: Order appointing Samuel W. Thayer Surgeon General of Vermont with the rank of Brigadier General along with promotions of several other officers.
          • Parent Collections: Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera



          General order no. 5.Colonel and Aid-de-Camp Samuel W. Colonel and aid-de Thayer, Jr.,...is detailed as Acting Surgeon General of the State, and is charged with the execution of such duties as pertain to that office
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            • Creator: Vermont. Adjutant and Inspector General's Office., Thayer, Samuel W.
            • Date Issued: 1863
            • Parent Collections: Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera


            (Gus) Writings
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              • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
              • Description: Selected Writings are transcriptions of a child‚Äôs writing. They were made by various people working with the file, at different times, generally in preparation for a workshop or institute at which the child‚Äôs work was to be studied. Other than the use of pseudonyms and the removal of other identifying elements, no consistent guidelines for handling spelling, punctuation, or other idiosyncrasies were applied.
              • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Gus)
              Part of: (Gus)


              (Iris) Narrative
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                • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
                • Description: The records consist of Prospect School teachers‚Äô weekly notes and semi-annual reports to parents about (Iris), plus, as available, notes of Descriptive Reviews about her and her work.
                • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Iris)
                Part of: (Iris)


                Catalogue
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                  • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
                  • Description: The catalogues are year-by-year summaries of (Mick‚Äôs) original collection preceded by an overall summary, all prepared by Archive Scholars/Fellows working with the original material.
                  • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Mick)
                  Part of: (Mick)


                  Writings
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                    • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
                    • Description: Selected Writings are transcriptions of a child‚Äôs writing. They were made by various people working with the file, at different times, generally in preparation for a workshop or institute at which the child‚Äôs work was to be studied. Other than the use of pseudonyms and the removal of other identifying elements, no consistent guidelines for handling spelling, punctuation, or other idiosyncrasies were applied.
                    • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Mick)
                    Part of: (Mick)