Herman Packard journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1092
Scope and Contents note
Diary of a Pennsylvania minister and agent of the American Tract Society, while in New Orleans and Greenville, Louisiana. It includes notes on yellow fever epidemics, battles with "consumption" (tuberculosis), weather, and accounts of travels by boat in 1839 and 1846, both by ocean and up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, then by canal to Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
Dates
- 1837-1847
Creator
- Packard, Herman (Person)
Biographical/Historical note
Pennsylvania minister and agent of the American Tract Society.
Extent
0.03 Linear Feet (1.25 inches (1 ledger))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Diary of a Pennsylvania minister and agent of the American Tract Society, written while he was in New Orleans and Greenville, Louisiana, in 1839 and 1846.
Provenance
unknown
General
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Processed by
unknown
Creator
- Packard, Herman (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Herman Packard journal
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
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