Annamae Barlup Myers and Stephen Harriman Diaries
name: label: Author
content: Harriman, Stephen (farmer)
label: Author
content: Myers, Annamae Barlup (farmer)
place: label: Place
content: Ohio
label: Place
content: West Liberty (Ohio)
topic: label: Topic
content: Agriculture
label: Topic
content: Agricultural Prices
label: Topic
content: Rural families
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Mrs. Margaret Myers, June 22, 1989.
creator: label: Author
content: Harriman, Stephen (farmer)
label: Author
content: Myers, Annamae Barlup (farmer)
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content: Annamae Barlup Myers and Stephen Harriman Diaries
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection consists of diaries for Annamae Myers, documenting the activities of a farm family in Ohio, 1931-1967 and Stephen Harriman, Mrs. Myers' maternal grandfather, covering the years1884, 1888, 1893 and 1894.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Annamae Barlup Myers was born April 7, 1903 in Ohio and spent most of her life on a farm, first, the "home farm" which her parents bought in 1915, then that of her father-in-law, followed by about seven years in a small Ohio town and a return to the home farm. Her diaries are a record of life in rural Ohio for more than thirty years. The diaries reflect a life busy with household chores, laundry, cooking, churning, gardening, canning, and preserving and helping on the farm. For example, Mrs. Myers helped with the threshing, driving the tractor, and cooking for temporary farm helpers during peak periods. In addition to making some of her own and the children's clothes, Mrs. Myers sewed for friends and neighbors and during some years took care of a small child for pay. The many references during the early years to not having enough money to meet their obligations gradually give way to a picture not of affluence but of more comfortable financial circumstances without the constant worry about bills evident in entries during the thirties and early forties. Although the diaries primarily note the events of family life they also mention major political or historic events with a few emotional overtones.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1883 - 1967
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (now Division of Work and Industry), July 25, 1989.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0345
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Diaries
label: Type
content: Housewives
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Grace Angle, volunteer, 1990; Collection contents digitized by Noah Stewart, intern, 2017.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Diaries
label: Genre/Form
content: Housewives
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Annamae Myers diaries record the activities of a farm family in Ohio, 1931-1967. There are daily entries about the weather and frequent mention of trips to the hairdresser and trips to the children's music and dancing lessons and to town for shopping, movies, or to pay bills. The diaries include frequent entries of amounts received for the sale of farm produce, and some financial data are entered at the end of each volume, but such entries are neither regular nor complete. They do however provide information on prices for agricultural products in a rural community. Major political and historic events are noted. There is infrequent reference to the emotions generated by family living and by the historic and political events of the twentieth century. Also includes a few diaries kept by Stephen Harriman, Mrs. Myers' maternal grandfather, with very brief daily entries of the weather, trips to town, visits made and visitors to the farm, and the start of farm operations, i.e., plowing, sowing.