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Women -- Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Diary of Maude Egbert

 Collection — Volume 1
Call Number: RH MS B77
Overview Five-year diary kept by Maude (Mrs. C.J.) Egbert of Clyde, Cloud County, Kansas. The diary provides a regular accounting of her life as a farm wife during World War II. Activities or events she notes typically include sewing, entertaining and visiting friends and family, cooking, house cleaning, canning, personal health, some farm activities (like threshing), acquiring a swarm of bees, creek and river flooding, and the weather. Throughout the diary she calls her husband "Dad." Later...
Dates: 1943 - 1948