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Mary Jean Simpson Diary, 1938
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    • Creator: SimpsonMaryJean, 1888-1977.
    • Date Created: 1938
    • Description: This diary discusses Mary Jean’s time as Dean of Women at UVM and getting involved in student and faculty life on campus. She goes to meetings and events at Southwick Hall, attends alumni events, and meets President Bailey. It also focuses on the health of her mother and Mary Jean’s friendship with Elspeth, her mother’s caretaker. Illness takes a center stage in this diary, as Mary Jean, her mother, Elspeth, and her brother John all deal with various sicknesses throughout the year. In the winter, Mary Jean details her experience with serums and intravenous iron supplements to combat illness. Lively descriptions of visits with family and friends and visits to church are emphasized during the various holidays throughout the year. Topics in this diary include transportation and automobile innovations, faculty and student life at UVM, health and medicine in the mid-20th century, weather patterns, and Vermont social life.
    • Parent Collections: Diaries


    Milk: Correspondence H.R. 2119, S. 762, 1949
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      • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
      • Date Created: 1949
      • Description: Topics include bills in House and Senate to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to announce the parity price of milk and announce or make effective the support price of milk; mandatory supports for dairy products; disposal of surplus dairy products; proposed suspension of Boston milk order; Vermont farm cooperatives; supply and demand provision of the New England milk formula; United Farmers of New England; proposed equalizing of prices in New York and New England milksheds; marketing of Class II New York milk in New England secondary markets.
      • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress


      Edward C. Smith to Henrietta Fletcher\, 1874 August 2
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        • Creator: Smith, Edward C.
        • Description: Topics include an injury he incurred while trying to put a halter on a wild mustang, arrangements for receiving sugar from Craig, and plans to send canned fruit and pictures.
        • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family



        Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, April 16, 1940
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          • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
          • Description: Letter to wife. Topics include constituent business; invitation to dinner from President James Buchanan; new Senate chambers; Pension Office.
          • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


          Kake Walk Program
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            • Creator: University of Vermont
            • Date Created: 1907
            • Parent Collections: Kake Walk at UVM