Box 5
Container
Contains 11 Results:
Montana, Missouri, New Jersey, 1900
File — Box: 5, Volume: 16
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass collected specimens in Montana at several sites, taught classes at the University of Montana, and received a fellowship to attend Princeton University for advanced study.
4 March--"I was up to the university yesterday also. There is so much to do besides this work [preparing fossils]. There I have to teach Geology, Physics and physiology with at least three afternoons occupied with laboratory practice...
Dates:
1900
New Jersey, Montana, Pennsylvania, 1900-1902
File — Box: 5, Volume: 17
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass attended Princeton University, collected specimens in Montana, and in May 1902 was employed by the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.
26 October 1900--"They [Princeton] have a fine collection of modern skeletons one of the best if not the best in America, so I am trying to make good use of my opportunities in this line."
30 October 1900--"Day before yesterday was my birthday but I forgot...
Dates:
1900-1902
Pennsylvania, 1902-1903
File — Box: 5, Volume: 18
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass worked at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.
15 November 1902--"I have been inspired to rise above these little mean things like jealousy and resentment. I hope it is my privilege to live in a higher atmosphere. If I can rise above it, I can find that love my soul craves, even if Pearl marries some one else. I may never love any individual as I have her. I don't expect it. I do not think I will ever...
Dates:
1902-1903
Pennsylvania, Montana, 1903
File — Box: 5, Volume: 19
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass worked at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and collected specimens in Montana.
3 September--"Dewey [Montana] is an old mining camp badly run down. There are a quite a good many log cabins and stores but mostly empty. There is one very neat hotel and one fair store.
Wisdom was a surprise to me. There are two nice general merchandise stores, two or three hotels, meat market, Barber...
Dates:
1903
Montana, 1903
File — Box: 5, Volume: 20
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass collected specimens in Montana.
Dates:
1903
Montana, Pennsylvania, 1903-1904
File — Box: 5, Volume: 21
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass continued to work at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and to collect specimens in Montana.
28 October 1903--"This is my birthday and I am 41 years old. I don't know that I need to be melancholy and stop to wail about the shortness of life and the approach of old age . . . .
"My health is about as good as ever and I think I feel younger than I used to. I did not used to think I would...
Dates:
1903-1904
Pennsylvania, 1904-1905
File — Box: 5, Volume: 22
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass worked at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.
8 June 1904--"I am happy most of the time now. I have to economize with extreme care since I made my last venture [he has purchased a house and now a lot in anticipation of his forthcoming marriage] .... For example I have only 7 or 8 dollars to last me 2 weeks and 3 of that I owe if the man comes after it. . . .It was for plumbing .... Well I have 2 meal...
Dates:
1904-1905
Pennsylvania, Montana, 1905-1907
File — Box: 5, Volume: 23
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass worked at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and gathered fossils in Montana. He and Pearl Goetschius were married on 20 October 1905. Diary entries are scattered.
28 December 1907--"I haven't lost faith in myself and that has in the past been one of my worst failings. But I think one reason for that is there is one who knows, who understands me and appreciates me. This bears me up. Let the world think...
Dates:
1905-1907
Pennsylvania, Minnesota, 1907-1908
File — Box: 5, Volume: 24
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass worked for Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and collected specimens in Utah. His wife Pearl stayed for some time with her in-laws in Medford, Minnesota. The diary entries are both Earl's and Pearl's.
3 April 1907--"Had an indignation meeting at the Museum, four of us. Have found definitely that one man's salary has been raised to $2000 while other men just as essential for the museum are left with a...
Dates:
1907-1908
Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Utah, 1909
File — Box: 5, Volume: 25
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass worked for Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, visited his relatives in Minnesota, and looked for fossils in Utah.
3 June--"Got this book today .... Wanted a handy notebook to take out west. Do not expect to always cling closely to days and dates.
"There are many things that I wish to remember and keep something like the sequence of events. Sometimes one event a day would serve as a string...
Dates:
1909