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Ruby Diamond collection, 1773-1981

 

Summary

Extent:
3710.00 items
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Ruby Diamond collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-0-90

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence, papers, records, journals, cashbooks (or account books), scrapbooks, newspaper articles, passport, currency, manuscripts, books, songs, pictures, stamps, clippings and legal papers. This collection contains a wide variety of materials. The correspondence, papers, records, bookkeeping journals and cash books of Julius Diamond reflect the economic conditions of the time and are good examples of how merchandising business was conducted. The scrapbook, assembled by John W. Trench, contains manuscripts, Civil War letters and clippings, describing events such as the battles of Gettysburg, Bull Run and Vicksburg. There is an original holograph passport issued by Consul General at Marseilles, France, to a native of Italy, taken during the war. Newspaper clippings discuss the price of gold, burial ceremonies, and the sale of enslaved persons. Also included are recipes, poems, songs and jokes written during and about the Civil War, as well as other historical documents not preserved elsewhere.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Ruby Diamond
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Ruby Diamond collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-0-90

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA