| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Walker, Helen M. |
| Title: | Helen M. Walker Collection |
| Dates: | 1831-1874 |
| Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) |
| Abstract: | The collection includes an account book which may have belonged to Elisha Walker detailing farm expenses and community building costs, possibly in Ashtabula County, Ohio; and, an album of confessions entitled "Mental photographs", which contains personal questions about expectations of self and spouse answered by both males and females, possibly members of a club in Ashtabula. |
| MS Number | MS 4355 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
Helen M. Walker collected several nineteenth-century manuscript items, including an account book which may have belonged to an ancestor, Elisha Walker, and an album of confessions entitled "Mental Photographs." The album contains personal questions about favorite items as well as expectations of self and spouse which have been answered by both males and females, possibly by the members of a club in Ashtabula, Ohio. The account book, also for the eastern Western Reserve, contains numerous entries for farm expenses and community building.
The Helen M. Walker Collection, l831-l874, consists of an account book and "Mental Photographs: An Album of Confessions."
This collection primarily pertains to the social life, customs, and economy of the rural Western Reserve, particularly Ashtabula, Ohio, in the mid-nineteenth century.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4355 Helen M. Walker Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Helen M. Walker, l979.
Processed by Bari Oyler Stith in 1989.