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Title	Ruby Jewell Diary, 1877
Date	1877
Creator	Jewell, Ruby
Subject headings	Women -- United States -- Diaries Diaries American diaries Women United States
Description	This diary belonged to school teacher Ruby Jewell whose family emigrated to California from Vermont in the late 1850s or early 1860s. Entries include family news, teaching in school, giving music lessons, making a bead garret, church activities, trips to nearby cities, going to the theater and opera house, singing, dancing. The last few pages record money spent on various items such as corsets, lemons, ribbons, and peaches. Diary includes pages of the San Francisco Directory listing separate sections with addresses, city offices and buildings, churches, banks, theaters, locations of fire alarms, etc in the beginning.
Type	Text
Original format	diaries
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	MSS282 19th and 20th Century Diary Collection, 1849-1925
Series/grouping	3: Women Diaries
Box	3
Folder	9: Ruby Jewell Diary, 1877
Finding aid link	https://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=546
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	MSS282.003.003.009
Digital master format	Image/tiff
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
OCLC number	985992037

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