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Harriet Hale Rix diaries

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Description: The two diaries, which Harriet kept in 1882 and 1884, detail her life as a young single woman in San Francisco. She describes her social activities including parties, family camping trips, visits to the theater and her frequent trips to the library (she keeps lists of the books she reads in the back of the diaries); she also talks a lot about school and her family; she often mentions her sister Annie, who is away from home much of the time working as a teacher. Harriet often discusses the current political issues of the time including Chinese immigrants in California.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1882-1884.
Call number: mssHM 66246-66247
Creator: Rix, Harriet Hale (1863-)(Opens in new tab)

Diary of Harriet Dye Bunting [microform] : 1889

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Microfilm of a diary kept by Harriet Bunting at Kanab, Utah, in 1889. The first line of the diary states that "I ... am impressed to make a brief memorandum of my acts toward Emily Nash, and her conduct toward me." Emily Nash had come to live with the Bunting family following the death of her grandmother in 1889, and she and Harriet seem to have gotten along well. The majority of the diary entries chronicle Harriet's daily life, such as attending church conferences and Sunday school, holding choir practices, doing housework such as washing clothes and sewing, and attending to ill neighbors. The cover of the diary is identified as James L. Bunting diary, 1883, and also contains a few brief entries from 1885 made by either James or Harriet. The remainder of the diary was kept by Harriet.

MSS MFilm 00169

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Harriet Doerr oral history

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Oral history interviews of writer Harriet Doerr conducted by historian Steven J. Novak in 1999 on April 13, April 27, May 4, June 8, and June 29. Doerr discusses the Huntington family and growing up and later living in Pasadena; marriage and children; experiences during World War II; U.S. politics; life and travels in Mexico from the 1930s to the 1970s and the family's copper mine; educational experiences; writing and literary career; relationship with the Huntington Library; and her thoughts on aging.

mssHM 84039

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Mai Richie Reed diaries

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Reed kept these diaries during two separate trips to the American southwest. They give a detailed description of Reed's experience traveling through New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Reed, and the friends with whom she was traveling, visited Acoma, Isleta Pueblo (where they witnessed a dance ceremony), and Laguna in New Mexico; Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon in Arizona; and La Jolla, San Diego, Pasadena, and the San Gabriel Mission in California. The diaries are illustrated with photographs from the trips and include Reed and her friends, the southwest landscape, the places she visited, and the Hopi, Navajo, and Isleta Indians (most of the photographs are labeled by Reed).

mssHM 64598-64599

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Diaries, 1939-1943, Volumes 24-28

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The collection comprises 66 items including 23 travel letters, 15 diaries, 4 scrapbooks, 22 photographs and 2 pieces of miscellaneous ephemera. The travel letters cover two trips taken by Mary Catton: 1. Trip to Japan, China, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Egypt, Israel, Switzerland, Italy, France, England, Scotland and the United States in 1931-1932; 2. Trip to Canada, the United States, Panama, New Zealand, Australia and Fiji in 1938-1939. Her travel letters, which are written like diaries but addressed and sent to family members back in Hawaii, contain detailed descriptions of each place she visited. They are illustrated with photographs and postcards, many with handwritten captions (the travel letters contain over 1,000 photographs). While Catton visited the typical tourist sites at each city, because she was a social worker, much of the content of her travel letters is dedicated to comments and discussions regarding the lesser-seen parts of the cities, their hospitals, conditions of the poor, the homeless, the available social work services, government and politics, and education and schools. She often met with doctors and social workers and talked to them about their experiences; Catton was also often a guest of honor at events where she was asked to give talks about her work in Hawaii.

mssHM 68106-68147

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Diaries, 1944-1946, Volumes 29-33

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Diaries, 1947-1951, Volumes 34-38

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mssHM 68106-68147

Harriet Hale Rix diaries

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