Chicago (Ill.) -- Description and travel.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Joy family journals
Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6014
Abstract
Diary of Arad Joy (1812-1813) discusses events during his service in the War of 1812 including punishment of deserters, living conditions, a visit to Niagra Falls, a skirmish, and duties as paymaster. The travel journals of Henry Joy (1844) relate details of his trip through the Midwest, including accommodations, a meeting with a former senator from Ohio, Mr. Spaulding, and a sermon by Harriet Beecher Stowe's husband, Dr. Calvin Stowe, discussion of the Pennsylvania Dutch and their farming...
Dates:
1812-1813, 1844.
McGraw family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2355
Abstract
Business and family correspondence, relating to lumbering interests near Canadea, New York; McGraw family genealogy; diaries and accounts of travels in France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Egypt; Jennie McGraw Fiske diaries refer to travels in England and on the Continent, and to Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and New York. Other subjects include Cornell University faculty members, the settlement of the estate of John McGraw, and a memorial to McGraw by the Cornell University Board of...
Dates:
1854-1956.
William C. Bouck papers
Collection — Mapcase item 1
Identifier: 2206
Abstract
Correspondence, appointment papers, official documents, and other papers chiefly relating to Bouck's political career.
Dates:
1727-1866.