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Charles A. Thresher's diary from 1885. Charles Thresher lived and farmed in the Berryton, Shawnee County area. Entries are typically brief and provide information regarding the weather, chores and activities around the farm, what family members did, Thresher's and his family's health, visiting neighbors or those that Thresher visited, Sunday school and other church activities, and other such information about daily life in rural Kansas.
Date: 1885
Item Number: 528601
Call Number: Charles A. Thresher Diaries Coll. #520, Box 1.
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 528601
Agriculture - Agricultural methods and practices
Agriculture - Environment - Weather
Collections - Manuscript
Community Life - Religion - Christianity
Date - 1880s - 1885
Home and Family - Daily life
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Diary
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Gilded Age, 1870-1900
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Diaries
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