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Julia Wilbur "Centennial" diary, 1876
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Centennial" diary, 1876
Description:
Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Documents her social activities and professional life at the United States Patent Office. Comments on current political events. The memoranda at the end includes miscellaneous notes, as well as income and correspondence records.
Date:
1876
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1886
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1886
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing significant events in detail, including her political activism. Wilbur was dismissed from the Patent Office in January 1886 and spent several months unemployed before being rehired in May. The memoranda at the end include a reflection on the year as a whole, a summary of the state of her family, a description of things she saw on a visit to Philadelphia, and various facts, figures, and literary extracts.
Date:
1886
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1883
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1883
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing significant events in detail. Recurring themes are her work at the Patent Office and attending White House receptions and congressional sessions. The memoranda at the end include a reflection on the year as a whole, a summary of the state of her family, a list of objects she saw at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and various facts and literary extracts.
Date:
1883
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1872
Title:
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1872
Description:
Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Documents her social activities and professional life at the United States Patent Office. Actively observed and commented on governmental proceedings in Washington, D.C. Attended congressional sessions, as well as various lectures and social reform meetings.
Date:
1872
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1889
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1889
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail, including her trips to Providence, New York, and Philadelphia. The memoranda at the end include a summary of the state of her health and her family, her finances for the year, and various facts, sayings, and literary extracts, including an abolitionist poem by James Russell Lowell and a quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Date:
1889
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Centennial" diary, 1878
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Centennial" diary, 1878
Description:
Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Documents her social activities and professional life at the United States Patent Office. Includes income records. Frequently discusses her niece Alfreda Bigelow and sister Frances Hartwell, who lived with her at the time. Attended various lectures and events. Mentions receiving an invitation from Susan B. Anthony to the Rochester Woman's Convention.
Date:
1878
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1890
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1890
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail. Of note are her vacation in New York and her sister Frances's illness. The memoranda at the end include a summary of the state of her family, her finances, various facts, figures, sayings, literary extracts, and other miscellany.
Date:
1890
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1881
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1881
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing significant events in detail. Much of diary discusses her working conditions at the Patent Office and her correspondence. Other themes include her health, her relationship with her sister Frances Hartwell, and the assassination and funeral of President James A. Garfield. The diary also discusses congressional sessions and White House receptions which Wilbur attended throughout the year, as well as a women's suffrage convention in January and a temperance convention in October. The notes in the back of the diary record over a decade of Memorial ("Decoration") Day events Wilbur attended and summarize her finances. See also mc1158_06_06_001, a diary kept by Wilbur's sister Mary Van Buskirk during a visit to Washington in September 1881.
Date:
1881
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1885
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1885
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing significant events in detail, including attending White House receptions and Congressional sessions. The memoranda at the end include a list of the year's "principle events, an account of her summer travels, a list of vacations she took between 1876 and 1885, and various facts, figures, and literary extracts.
Date:
1885
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1894
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1894
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail. Memoranda at the back include a summary of her finances and various facts, figures, and literary extracts.
Date:
1894
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1874
Title:
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1874
Description:
Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Documents her social activities and professional life at the United States Patent Office. Actively observed and commented on governmental proceedings in Washington, D.C., such as the passage of the Civil Rights Bill. Attended various lectures, meetings, and congressional sessions. The memoranda at the end include miscellaneous quotes/notes, as well as notes on the death and funeral of Charles Sumner.
Date:
1874
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur diary, 1895
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, 1895
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing her activities in detail. Frequently describes medical treatments and attending women's suffrage councils.
Date:
1895
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1893
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1893
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail. The memoranda at the end include a summary of the state of her family and her finances as well as various facts, figures, sayings, and literary extracts.
Date:
1893
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1870
Title:
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1870
Description:
Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Documents her social activities and health as well as professional life at the United States Patent Office. Actively observed and commented on governmental proceedings in Washington, D.C. Attended congressional sessions as well as various lectures and conventions. The memoranda at the end include quoted excerpts and miscellaneous notes.
Date:
1870
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1875
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1875
Description:
Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Primarily documents her social activities and health. Records her observations on governmental proceedings in Washington, D.C. and her professional life at the United States Patent Office. The memoranda at the end include notes and statistics about women's education in the United States.
Date:
1875
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1871
Title:
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1871
Description:
Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Documents her social activities and professional life at the United States Patent Office. References her association with prominent individuals like Belva Lockwood and Frederick Douglass. Records her charitable work and participation in the women's rights movement, including her attempt to register to vote. Actively observed and commented on governmental proceedings in Washington, D.C. Attended congressional sessions and White House receptions, as well as various lectures and social reform meetings. Includes quoted excerpts and miscellaneous notes.
Date:
1871
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1892
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1892
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail. The memoranda at the end include a summary of the state of her family and her finances as well as various facts, figures, sayings, and literary extracts.
Date:
1892
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Centennial" diary, 1877
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Centennial" diary, 1877
Description:
Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Documents her social activities and professional life at the United States Patent Office. Frequently discusses her two nieces who were living with her at this time, particularly Alfreda Bigelow. Provides commentary on governmental/political proceedings. The memoranda at the end include miscellaneous notes.
Date:
1877
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1880
Title:
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1880
Description:
Wilbur wrote page-length entries, dated July 1, 1880 to December 31, 1880, summarizing personally significant events for each day. Primarily documents her daily and social activities. Frequently discusses her niece Alfreda Bigelow. Attended various lectures and events.
Date:
1880
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1873
Title:
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1873
Description:
Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Documents her social activities and professional life at the United States Patent Office. Actively observed and commented on governmental proceedings in Washington, D.C. Attended congressional sessions, as well as various lectures and meetings.
Date:
1873
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College

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