Note: Put the word between quotation marks (“example”) to perform an exact search.

Showing 4341 - 4350 of 5329 Records

Genieve Lamson Diary, 1908
Image nop
    • Creator: Lamson, Genieve, 1887-1966.
    • Date Created: 1908
    • Description: Genieve Amelia Lamson was born in Randolph, Vt. to Whitcomb Elisha and Hannah Amelia (Philbrick) Lamson on April 29, 1887. Lamson graduated from Randolph High School in 1905. After graduation, she taught for four terms in Vermont district schools and for five years (until 1915) in high schools in Roselle Park, NJ and Springfield, Mass. Lamson completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Chicago, receiving her B.S. degree in 1920 and an M.S. in geography in 1922. She accepted a professorship at Vassar College in 1922 and taught in the geography department until her retirement in 1952. Lamson traveled extensively during her 20s. In 1909, she visited family and friends in the Pacific Northwest and went on several sightseeing excursions in California, Oregon, and Washington. She and her sister Gail traveled through Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy in 1912, and the pair took a trip to Bermuda in 1915. Lamson was an active suffragist and was appointed by the Vermont Suffragist Association to chair the suffragist convention in Orange County in 1919. Lamson remained an active member of her community throughout her life, donating her time and money to a number of social and professional organizations. She was also a historian and choir member of Bethany Congregational Church, a sponsor of Vermont Symphony Orchestra concerts in Randolph, a member of the Randolph Woman’s Club, and a member of the Randolph Garden Club. Lamson died on September 22, 1966. Topics in Lamson’s diaries include teaching (as well as the process for becoming a certified teacher in Vermont circa 1910), major cities of the West Coast, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle; turn-of-the-century fashion and home clothes-making, the sinking of the Titanic, turn-of-the-century slang, and the local history of Randolph, Vt.
    • Parent Collections: Diaries


    Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, January 1 - March 1, 1864
    Image nop
      • Creator: Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901.
      • Date Created: 1864
      • Description: Mounting political and military tensions between the major powers of Europe serve as the backdrop for this diary: the Second Schleswig War breaks out, four Italians are arrested in Paris for allegedly plotting to kill Napoleon III, and “war fever” whips the rest of Europe into a frenzy. George Perkins Marsh’s brother, Charles, arrives unexpectedly in Turin and settles in with the Marshes for an extended stay. Caroline Crane Marsh closely follows the decline and death of the Marchesa Doria and Barone Giovanni Plana, two of her earliest acquaintances in Italy. The Marshes attend public lectures with their friends, and Caroline Crane Marsh collects autographs from the lecturers and other famous Italians for the U.S. Sanitary Fairs. Topics in this diary include the Count of Cavour, death and funerary practices in Italy, etiquette, the theory of evolution, women and marriage in the nineteenth century, Catholicism in Italy, the royal family of Savoy, and nineteenth-century British authors, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Charles Lamb.
      • Parent Collections: Caroline Crane Marsh Diaries, Vermont Diaries


      Senator from Louisiana : speech of Hon. George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, in the United States Senate, March 16, 1875.
      Image nop
        • Creator: Edmunds, George F. (George Franklin), 1828-1919.
        • Date Created: 1875-03-16
        • Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches


        Our plain duty toward Puerto Rico ... speech of Hon. Redfield Proctor, in the Senate of the United States, March 30, 1900.
        Image nop
          • Creator: Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908.
          • Date Created: 1900-03-30
          • Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches


          Speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, on the annexation of Hawaii, Monday, June 20 1898.
          Image nop
            • Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
            • Date Created: 1898-06-20
            • Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches


            President Wilson's veto of the immigration bill, 1915 : extracts from speech of Hon. William P. Dillingham of Vermont in the Senate of the United States, February 11 and 12, 1915.
            Image nop
              • Creator: Dillingham, William P. (William Paul), 1843-1923.
              • Date Created: 1915-02-11
              • Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches




              Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to MARY CHURCHILL BAIRD, dated March 1, 1847.
              Image nop
                • Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.
                • Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Spencer Fullerton Baird Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center


                Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated September 12, 1872.
                Image nop
                  • Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.
                  • Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Spencer Fullerton Baird Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center