Box 4
Container
Contains 13 Results:
South Dakota, 1889
File — Box: 4, Volume: 7
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass attended the South Dakota Agricultural College in Brookings, began a herbarium at the college, and returned to teaching school. This diary contains a great deal of shorthand.
8 March--"Do not know how I shall like the school but think I will learn something. I must learn to appreciate these privileges while I have them. Have longed and pined and almost languished to be in school and be getting...
Dates:
1889
South Dakota, 1889
File — Box: 4, Volume: 8
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
This diary was kept in conjunction with Diary 7. Some entries refer to Professor Orcott and going to the college farm for specimens, indicating Douglass was at South Dakota Agricultural College at the time he kept this journal. He included poetry, philosophy, science, and nature study entries in the journal. The last entry is 30 June 1889.
25 March--"I have for some time wanted a kind of a Journal not to...
Dates:
1889
Montana, 1895-1896
File — Box: 4, Volume: 14
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass taught school in several locations, but his primary interest was in collecting fossil specimens.
21 April 1895--"I found just above a little clay rock exposure some small pieces of bones and teeth. I picked them up and concluded by the fragments that they were Rhinoceros teeth. Dug a little and found there were more bones there so went over to where my horse was and got pick. . . . and began to...
Dates:
1895-1896