{"id":1153,"date":"2010-11-22T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T11:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2017-02-24T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T21:49:35","slug":"dear-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2010\/11\/22\/dear-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u00a0were delighted to run\u00a0across this blog post<\/a> from writer, editor, and UI alum\u00a0Alison Feldmann\u00a0on the IDL’s Historic Iowa Children’s Diaries<\/a> digital collection. We have a deep love for historic diaries as well, and we’re currently hard at work developing a site that will allow the public to help enhance our collections through “crowdsourcing” or collaborative\u00a0transcription of diaries and other manuscript materials. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

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…After poking around the Digital Library \u2014 of which there is an abundance of cool stuff, and I\u2019ll be posting much more! \u2014 I came across (and was blown away by) their collection of historic Iowa children\u2019s diaries<\/a>. These tomes originated with early settler children \u2014 teenagers, actually \u2014 of the 1850s through the early 20th century. The best part is that some have been transcribed and biographies of the kids are provided. I kind of fell in love with the pages of the last diary shown above, mostly because of the doodles, kept by 14 year old Linnie Hagerman<\/a> (1852-1934), of\u00a0Keokuk,\u00a0Iowa. (Check out that handwriting! Gorgeously messy.) Born in\u00a0Missouri in\u00a01852,\u00a0Linnie moved with her\u00a0family to\u00a0Keokuk at\u00a0age 10, and\u00a0remained there for the\u00a0rest of her\u00a0life. She began drawing by\u00a0doodling in her\u00a0diary, and\u00a0later became an\u00a0artist,\u00a0creating many oil paintings during the\u00a01880s.<\/p>\n

An exciting transcription:<\/p>\n

\u201cSitting room Saturday Nov 24th 1866
\nEvening
\nSat down to wash the baby, when a man came running in saying \u2018Your house is on fire\u2019 and Mrs Cunningham ran to the stairs screamed for the children to come down stairs she got the children over to Mrs McNamaras I went over to Mr McNamara and got Emma and Nellie and brought them home with me Mrs Armitrout [Armentrout], Mrs Grim, Mrs Johnson Mrs Hill, Sallie Beadle [and] Emma & Nellie Cunningham were here to dinner. Mrs Grim brought her baby with her and so did Mrs Armentrout but they would not come to me, well I did nurse the little Grim baby awhile. I have been over to Mrs Fryers several times today on errands. Emma Cunningham went home away and left Nellie towards evening[.] Nell got dissatisfied and wanted to go over to Mrs McNamaras so I took her over and I went over to the burnt house Emma and Nellie came back with me and our ore [are] going to stay all night. Oh! I forgot to say Mrs Cunningham had a wardrobe full of the best clothing and all of Dan Morgin clothes burnt.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We\u00a0were delighted to run\u00a0across this blog post from writer, editor, and UI alum\u00a0Alison Feldmann\u00a0on the IDL’s Historic Iowa Children’s Diaries digital collection. We have a deep love for historic diaries as well, and we’re currently hard at work developing a site that will allow the public to help enhance our collections through “crowdsourcing” or collaborative\u00a0transcriptionContinue reading “Dear Diary”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4969,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}