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Preferred Citation:

Dorothy Vick Diary, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William & Mary.

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Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in November 2012.

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Scope and Contents

Diary, 1931, of Dorothy Vick, a sixteen year old woman living in Alta Vista, Iowa. Vick attended a Catholic school and attends her local church most Sundays. Entrires are typically a few sentences long and deal with the events of that day. Includes entries about dances which she attended, going to confession at her church, movies that she saw, and her relationships. Vick often writes that she wishes that she could write what she truly thinks and that she wishes she could lock her diary.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Catholics
• Diaries
• Iowa--Social life and customs
• Teenagers--Iowa
• Young women--Diaries