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Frontier and pioneer life

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Simon Gratz Moses diary

 Collection
Identifier: P-775
Abstract

Collection includes: Simon G. Moses' handwritten diary, kept during his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and containing his observations of daily life, Jewish life on the frontier, his family, and insights into the practice of medicine in the early and mid-nineteenth century; loose letters written by a family member (undated), and Simon G. Gratz in Savannah, GA (1864); and a newspaper clipping of his obituary and funeral hymn.

Dates: undated, 1832-1833, 1842, 1864, 1897