Allamakee county Letters, Diaries & Journals |
This page was updated November 17, 2018
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- Letters - written by Adolph Schwartzhoff to his family in Germany - October 1849
- Letters - written by Dr. Thomas H. Barnes & his wife Julia A. Orr Barnes - 1854 & 1884
- Letter - written to Moses & Isabella Ross by daughters - August 1856
- Letter - written by Benjamin Ratcliff to his sister - April 1858; Includes a poem about their log cabin written by Benjamin's daughter
- Letter - written to relatives by William & Emily Thompson - November 1860
- Letters - written by David McGoon & Samuel Ackerly, published in The True Latter Days Saints Herald - 1870
- Letter - from J. W. Foster to Alfred B. Foster & wife - December 1877
- Letter - from J. W. Foster to Alfred B. Foster & L. Foster - before 1879
- Letter - written to Mr. Alfred Foster by Florence Ida Foster - February 1879
- Letter - from John B. Murray to his father Michael in Ireland - March 1881
- Letter - written to J.H. Jones, Waukon from San Francisco, CA about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
- Letter - written by Gustav Dietsch in Germany, to F.H. Welzel, 1919
- Letter - written by soldier Charley Donovan, serving in Germany, to his friend Bill Collins, 1919
- Letter - written by soldier George Aschom to his family from Germany, 1919
- Diary - partial diary of Sidney Thor Koontz written during his WWI overseas duty in England & Ireland
- Letter - from Geo. Coppersmith written to the Allamakee Journal & Lansing Mirror, 1930
- Letter - written by Hugh Shepherd about early days in and around Postville, ca 1935/1940
- Journal - Michael Clark's boarding house journal, 1853-1892
- Journal - written by Florence (Mero) Stevens, the journal recounts events from her life 1853-1921
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