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Album 12

Object Type: Folder
In Folder: Virginia Wines' Albums


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Arranged page (by creator), scanned as received. Two black and white photos of houses and two hand-typed sections of text, one titled: "John Luce House"

Black and white photograph of the John Luce House. Slightly blurry.

Black and white photograph of the John Luce house.

Typewritten clippings detailing brief history of John Luce House as well as brief account of "the blizzard of '88"

Arranged page (by creator), scanned as received. Black and white photo of house with two pieces of hand-typed text. Top piece of text titled: "Jabez Corwin House"

Black and white photograph of the Jabez Corwin House.

Typewritten clippings detailing brief history of Jabez Corwin House as well as an excerpt from Melinda Corwin's diary for October 26, 28, and 29 of the year 1844.

Arranged page (by creator), scanned as received. Page composed of multiple sections of hand-typed text.

Typewritten consolidation of Melinda Corwin's Diary, pg. 1; a brief biography of Melinda Cook is followed by the diary entries for December 25, 1836 to December 31, 1837.

Typewritten clippings from Melinda Corwin's Diary for November 14, 15, and 18 of the year 1838; second clipping addresses the location of Mt. Pisgah

November 1838

Typewritten consolidation of Melinda Corwin's Diary, pg. 2; covers April 4, 1838 to December 25, 1838; see note for HAL_001652 for gap between this page and the ostensible first page.

1838

Typewritten consolidation of Melinda Corwin's Diary, pg. 3; covers January 1839 (no date) to November 10, 1839.

1839

Typewritten consolidation of Melinda Corwin's Diary, pg. 4; covers March 25, 1841 to August 15, 1844.

1841-1844

Typewritten consolidation of Melinda Corwin's Diary, pg. 5; covers August 19, 1844 to May 7, 1846.

1844-1846

Typewritten consolidation of Melinda Corwin's Diary, pg. 6; covers February 3, 1847 to December 5, 1849.

1847-1849

Typewritten consolidation of Melinda Corwin's Diary, pg. 7; covers May 8, 1858 to unspecified date in 1861 (before March 7, given this is where the next page starts); references "Colonization agent," Corwin family attending debates on the consequences of "succession", as well as the election of Lincoln in November of 1860.

1858-1860

Typewritten consolidation of Melinda Corwin's Diary, pg. 8; covers March 7, 1861 to the November election of 1863; includes material about beginning of the Civil War, Abolishionist sermons, the Great Comet of 1861, the Great Long Island Fire of 1862, the Civil War draft, and war-weariness circa 1863.

1861-1863

Typewritten consolidation of Melinda Corwin's Diary, pg. 8a; covers thanksgiving of 1863 as well as February and March of the year 1864; laments a "political harangue" at church.

1863-1864

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