Box Small Manuscript Collections Box 3
Container
Contains 1 Result:
William Blanks Diary Volume 2, April 1919-January 1920
File — Box: Small Manuscript Collections Box 3, Folder: MC 317 Folder 2
Identifier: MC 317
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
Diaries (positive photocopies) of William Blanks, December 1917 - April 1919 and April 1919 - January 1920. Topics include weather, work (at a store, an undertaker or funeral home, and at Hamburg Bank), and day-to-day life in Hamburg, Ashley County, Arkansas; agriculture, particularly cotton crops and livestock; the 1919 influenza epidemic; and President Woodrow Wilson's cancelled Little Rock speech. Persons mentioned include J.B. Callaway, Leroy Lane, Murphy Jones, Walter Johnner, Gaster...
Dates:
April 1919-January 1920