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Jefferson Columbus Davis papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3057
Abstract

Original journals, correspondence, photographs, engravings, newsclippings, together with some typed copies, documenting the career army officer's tenure as military governor of Alaska, 1867-1870, and his and his wife's tour of Mexico in 1878.

Dates: 1867-1878

John Montgomery Roberts Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3157
Abstract

Descriptions of farm life in Tazewell County, Illinois, including discussions of routine farm activities, farming expenses and property valuations, illnesses and medicinal cures, family births and deaths, local events, and weather conditions. Also trip accounts by Roberts and his wives, descriptions of the technical aspects of making lithographic plates and miscellaneous sketches of Robert's home and towns he visited in Illinois.

Dates: 1831-1886

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Alaska -- Description and travel 1
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Diaries -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- 1851-1900 1
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Illinois -- Sources 1
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Illinois -- Rural conditions -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Indians of North America -- Alaska -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Indians of North America -- Northeastern States 1
Journals (notebooks) -- Alaska -- 1851-1900 1
Land settlement -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Land use, Rural -- Illinois 1
Lithography -- 19th century -- United States 1
Manuscripts, American -- Alaska -- Sitka 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Morton 1
Manuscripts, American -- Louisiana -- New Orleans 1
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Mexico City (Mexico) -- Description and travel 1
Mississippi River -- Description and travel 1
Morton (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Newspapers -- Alaska -- Sitka -- 1851-1900 1
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Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Pioneers -- Illinois -- Diaries 1
Sketchbooks 1
Steamboats -- Mississippi River -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Tazewell County (Ill.) -- Genealogy -- Sources 1
Tazewell County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
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Travel literature -- East (U.S.) -- 1801-1850 1
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Names
Davis, Jefferson Columbus, 1828-1879 1
Davis, Marietta A. 1
Díaz, Delfina Ortega y Reyes de 1
Díaz, Porfirio, 1830-1915 1
Franklin, John, 1786-1847 1