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Born in 1874, Benjamin LeRoy Miller was a Profess of Geology at Lehigh University from 1907-1944, having earned his A.B. from the University of Kansas and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to Lehigh he taught at Penn College, Bryn Mawr, and briefly at Princeton. His diary, written when he was only 17, describes his life as a student in Kansas. It begins in Rock Creek, Kansas on January 1, 1891, and ends in Topeka, Kansas on December 31, 1891.
Numbered pages 1-56 torn out from diary. Versos of inserts were not imaged.
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Benjamin LeRoy Miller Diary, 1891
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English
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books
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Date Captured
2015-06-19 to 2016-06-22
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https://archivesspace.lib.lehigh.edu/repositories/3/resources/324
SC MS 0013.8.01
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SC MS 0013 Benjamin LeRoy Miller Papers, 1891-1944
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234
34 cm. x 22 cm.
Subject (LCSH)
Miller, . B. L. (Benjamin L. . 1874- 1944. (n.d.). Benjamin LeRoy Miller Diary, 1891 (1–). https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/archival-collections/benjamin-leroy-miller-diary-1891
Miller, Benjamin L. (Benjamin LeRoy) 1874-1944. n.d. “Benjamin LeRoy Miller Diary, 1891”. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/archival-collections/benjamin-leroy-miller-diary-1891.
Miller, Benjamin L. (Benjamin LeRoy) 1874-1944. Benjamin LeRoy Miller Diary, 1891. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/archival-collections/benjamin-leroy-miller-diary-1891.
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Digital Diaries
Manuscript diaries digitized as part of a Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) project in 2015.
"The PACSCL Diaries Project allows researchers an intimate view into a wide variety of personalities, largely from Philadelphia, as they went about their daily lives and commented on the world around them.
The project provides an online archive of diaries drawn from PACSCL member collections. Users are able to view the diaries in a page-turning interface. They will also be able to download high-resolution images of the pages for offline viewing and reuse. The diaries are offered as free cultural works and can be downloaded in bulk."
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