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Preferred Citation

Norman Sartain Diary, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased in 2010

Scope and Contents

This description was provided by the seller and has not been verified: "Original 1927 handwritten diary of Norman Sartain. Norman Sartain was a student at the Palmyra School in Palmer, Texas, in the mid to late 1920s. It has 46 pages (front and back) filled with diary entries through 1928. He lists the times each day that he arrived to school and things his teachers and classmates did." He also mentions that Tompson's Black workers have been picking cotton for him since he was unable to do so himself.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Teenage boys--Diaries