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Mary Jean Simpson Diary, 1930
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    • Creator: Simpson, Mary Jean, 1888-1977.
    • Date Created: 1930
    • Description: In this diary Mary Jean deals with some major health issues including damaged knees and a cut in her hand that landed her in the hospital for months that left much of the summer and early fall in the diary empty. Surviving a very cold winter in Washington DC, much of her daily life involves dinner parties, reading books, and visiting the movies alongside occasional visits from friends and family such as her Aunt Harriet. Mixed into descriptions of her daily life are mentions of national issues such as her brother John’s financial worries at the beginning of the Great Depression. Topics in this diary include the Great Depression, medical treatments including both home and professional remedies, and social and work life in Washington DC.
    • Parent Collections: Diaries
    Part of: Diaries


    Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, January 27, 1940
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      • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
      • Description: Letter to daughter. Topics include Whig and Democrat members of Congress; President James Polk; annexation of Texas.
      • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress



      Mary Jean Simpson Diary, 1926
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        • Creator: Simpson, Mary Jean, 1888-1977.
        • Date Created: 1926
        • Description: Mary Jean accepts a job as a Bill Clerk for the United States Senate, and she and her mother make the move from Vermont to Washington D.C. in this Diary. Mentions of Senatorial legislation, visits from ambassadors, and national events such as the impeachment of federal judge George English are peppered throughout descriptions of her new job. Much of her diary includes descriptions of dinner parties with coworkers, politicians, family, and friends; visits to the movies, operas, theater, and live music; and shopping for new clothes, especially hats. Mary Jean and her mother also return to Vermont for several months; transit by train and automobile play a large role in her life in 1926. Topics include: 1920s US Senate legislation, Media: Movies, theater, opera, and music in the 20s, early 20th century transportation: trains and automobiles, Women’s fashion in the 1920s, Women’s Club Organizations, Political social life in early 20th century, Vermont and Northeastern Coastal geography, Presbyterian church life.
        • Parent Collections: Diaries
        Part of: Diaries






        Dairy: General Correspondence, 1962
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          • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
          • Date Created: 1962
          • Description: Topics include Senator Aiken's correspondence to constituents on small dairy farms; processing tax on feed grain; dairy farm surpluses; milk dating; marketing quotas; roller dried skim milk powder; proposal to collect milk promotion funds through federal milk market orders; bulk tanks; Milk Marketing Program; improving milk quality and production methods.
          • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress