Joseph Henry's Pocket Diary, 1865
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Request permissionsDownload image PrintThis pocket diary was originally a "Churchman's Diary and Ecclesiastical Calendar" for the year of 1854, but Joseph Henry used it as a pocket diary for the year of 1865. On some pages he has not made notes, so some original content in the diary (calendars, tables of bishops and dioceses, etc.) remains unmarked. However, he has used many memoranda and weekly calendar pages to make his own notes. About half the diary is written proceeding from front to middle, and half of it is written upside-down, proceeding from back to middle. Henry's notes regard such topics as oil lamps, fog signals, engines, reports and papers to exchange among colleagues, and weather in different parts of North America.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7001, Box 13A, Folder: 15
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1865
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SIA2013-06738 to SIA2013-06817
Number of Images: 80; Color: Color; Size: 3.5w x 7h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper