COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Diary of Arad Joy (1812-1813) discusses events during his service in the War of 1812 including punishment of deserters, living conditions, a visit to Niagra Falls, a skirmish, and duties as paymaster. The travel journals of Henry Joy (1844) relate details of his trip through the Midwest, including accommodations, a meeting with a former senator from Ohio, Mr. Spaulding, and a sermon by Harriet Beecher Stowe's husband, Dr. Calvin Stowe, discussion of the Pennsylvania Dutch and their farming methods, description of an iron works, a glass works and a nail factory, drawings of historical sites, descriptions of various towns including Chicago, Milwaukee, Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, Michigan, and descriptions of Indians he saw canoeing on the upper Mississippi.
Dates
- 1812-1813, 1844.
Creator
- Joy family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
1 microfilm reels. (1 microfilm reels.)
Abstract
Diary of Arad Joy (1812-1813) discusses events during his service in the War of 1812 including punishment of deserters, living conditions, a visit to Niagra Falls, a skirmish, and duties as paymaster. The travel journals of Henry Joy (1844) relate details of his trip through the Midwest, including accommodations, a meeting with a former senator from Ohio, Mr. Spaulding, and a sermon by Harriet Beecher Stowe's husband, Dr. Calvin Stowe, discussion of the Pennsylvania Dutch and their farming methods, description of an iron works, a glass works and a nail factory, drawings of historical sites, descriptions of various towns including Chicago, Milwaukee, Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, Michigan, and descriptions of Indians he saw canoeing on the upper Mississippi.
Physical Description
Microfilm.
- Battle Creek (Mich.) -- Description and travel.
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Description and travel.
- Diaries.
- Glass manufacture.
- Indians of North America -- Wisconsin.
- Iron-works.
- Kalamazoo (Mich.) -- Description and travel.
- Middle West -- Description and travel.
- Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Description and travel.
- Pennsylvania Dutch.
- Stowe, Calvin.
- United States -- History -- War of 1812.
- Voyages and travels.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by B.D.
- Date
- June 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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