On offer is a journal and diary of A. N. Nelson, a crew member on the U.S.S. Birmingham, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet’s Destroyer Squadron shortly after the end of World War 1. The diary is entitled above the first entry, “Cruise of U.S.S. Birmingham with Pacific Fleet on West Coast.” This is an accurate description of what takes place in the book. From July 17, 1919 to November 22, 1920, Nelson recounts the passage of the Birmingham as it leaves the Boston Navy Yard, goes through the Panama Canal, and then anchors in San Diego to serve as Flagship of the Pacific Fleet’s Destroyer Squadro... View More...
On offer is an interesting, historical, unpublished 32 page typed manuscript with numerous handwritten edits of a biography as titled of "Lyttleton Price Reminiscences of my Father" by Catherine Price Nelson who was quite elderly at the time of the writing. Lyttleton Price was Tombstone's Chief Prosecutor and a Cochise County District Attorney who prosecuted Wyatt Earp as this biography covers the life of Price prior to his serving for General Fremont and the famous trial and after in Idaho. Price was also a judge and resident of Hailey, Idaho. While the manuscript is a biography of he... View More...
Brimming with love and vitality this is the diary of Hazel Crandell of Worcester, Massachusetts who married Joseph Nelson [27 years old on June 5th] of Manchester, NH in 1918. Her diary covers the full year (minus a week in December) including her daily routine, her marriage to a U.S. serviceman stationed at Battle Creek, Michigan when the war ended, as recorded. The couple moved to Northwood, New Hampshire upon his discharge. Hazel's family was from Worcester, Mass., 45 Lake Avenue. Her father, Clarence Crandell had a canoe rental business on the lake. Many families and names mentioned in the... View More...
On offer is a fascinating and significant handwritten diary that was found with other military items from a US 4th Marine Veteran, George Mower, who served in China, WW II and Korea. The very unique diary was written by five Marines (their rank and last names listed on the first page) while on duty in China from Dec. 28, 1934 through Feb 1, 1935. The very first words of the journal are as such: "This diary of facts concerning a trip made up the Yangtzie River, into the interior of China that mysterious and forbidding land of the Green and Yellow Dragon - by five marines detailed as armed ... View More...
On offer are 14 file folders each relating to a different young woman's association with the United Daughters of the Confederacy. One of the organization's primary objectives include securing a proper education for direct blood descendants and relations of honorably discharged veterans of the Confederate Army and these files are directly related to the educational objective as most include, besides applications for membership, loan application forms, report cards and related correspondence. Most of the files contain multiple pages, as many as 20-30 pieces of correspondence and documents with t... View More...
On offer is a super archive of nine [9] original manuscript diaries very full and descriptive of the rural life and times in and around Milton in south-central Ontario. Dated 1872 through 1883, missing 1873, 1880 and 1882, the author, while unidentified in fact, we suggest his name is Nelson Green. There are a number of references to the Green family and some ephemeral clues that local historians, genealogists and collectors of the Milton, Cayuga and Hamilton Ontario area should no doubt be able to confirm his identity. The author leads the simple yet extraordinarily hard life of a church goin... View More...
