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Diaries and Letters Featured in Her Story
      A Puritan Maiden's Diary A Puritan Maiden's Diary, 1675
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The Little Puritan Maiden > (19th century sheet music)
American Puritanism > (article from the New Englander and Yale Review)
Puritan Boston > (1880 article from Atlantic Monthly)
A Daughter of the Puritans > (1886 article from the New England Magazine)
A Puritan Hearthstone > (photograph of a woman dressed in Puritan attire)
A map of the most inhabited part of New England > (1755 map)

      A Letter from Phillis Wheatley A Letter from Phillis Wheatley, 1774
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Poems on various subjects, religious and moral > (1773 book by Phillis Wheatley)
To the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, on the death of his lady > (1772 poem by Phillis Wheatley)
Phillis Wheatley's Love of Freedom > (Library of Congress exhibit)
African American Experience in Ohio > (search this collection using the term "Phillis Wheatley")
George Washington to Phillis Wheatley, February 28, 1776 > (letter thanking Phillis for a poem she wrote for him)

      Mrs. Mary Dewees's Journal Mrs. Mary Dewees's Journal, 1788
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The Independent gazetteer > (1788 newspaper published in Philadelphia)
Letters of Delegates to Congress: John Brown to Thomas Jefferson, August 10, 1788 > (letter regarding Kentucky becoming a state)
1752 map of Philadelphia >
1771 map of the middle British colonies in America >
1784 map of Kentucke >

      Diary Poem by Abiah Marchant Diary Poem by Abiah Marchant, 1849
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Horace Williams. Letter > (1849 letter written aboard the same ship)
Sweden Logbook > (1849 logbook of a ship sailing the Pacific at the same time that met the ship, Magnolia)
Vesper Journal > (1846-1849 logbook of a whaling ship that sighted the Magnolia)
Sailing card collection > (browse this collection of 1800s advertising cards)

      Kate Dunlap's Diary Kate Dunlap's Diary, 1864-1865
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Dunlap, Kate, 1837-1901 > (biographical notes)
Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters 1846-1869 > (browse this collection for additional primary sources from this period)
View of the Missouri River & Council Bluffs from an elevation > (1800s engraving of Council Bluffs)
Iowa as it is in 1856 > (1856 gazetteer)
Gold panning in Nelson Gulch, near Helena, Montana > (1860s photo)

      Mary Farnsworth's Reminiscences Mary Farnsworth's Reminiscences, 1875 - 1904
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Farnsworth, Mary E., Reminiscences, 1830 - 1875 > (Volume 1 of Mary's diary)
Isthmus of Panama > (1867 history of the Panama Railroad and of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company)
The Johnstown Horror or Valley of Death > (1889 leaflet)
San Francisco Harbor > (1890 photograph)
The City of San Francisco > (1878 panoramic map)

      Do You Know? By Carrie Chapman Catt Do You Know? By Carrie Chapman Catt, 1918
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Carrie Chapman Catt, 1918 > (brief biography)
National American Women's Suffrage Association Collection > (search this collection for other documents by Carrie Chapman Catt)
One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview > (timeline of the suffrage movement)
Carrie Chapman Catt > (1914 photographic portrait)
American Women: Women's Suffrage > (tips for researching women's suffrage in the LOC Manuscript Division)

      Interview with Marianna Costa Interview with Marianna Costa, 1930's
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Marianna Costa's First Job > (1994 interview)
Portrait of Marianna Costa: > (copy of black and white photograph)
Eighteen-year-old Marianna Marching in Washington: > (copy of 1933 photograph)
Front of campaign card > (1933 campaign card used by Marianna when running for union office)
Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting > ( search this collection using the term "Marianna Costa" for additional interviews and photographs)

      A Letter from Daisy Bates to Roy Wilkins A Letter from Daisy Bates to Roy Wilkins, 1957
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Little Rock Nine and Daisy Bates posed in living room > (1950s photograph)
Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine > (African American Odyssey exhibition)
Portrait of Roy Wilkins > (1963 photograph)
Felix Frankfurter's draft decree to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision > (draft of April 8, 1955 decree)
American Women: African American Civil Rights > (tips for researching women's role in African American civil rights movement in the LOC Manuscript Division)




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