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This is the travel diary of an anonymous man who might have been a surveyor or land developer. He described the land he saw during his travels and meticulously recorded acreage and locations of trees. He also repeatedly mentioned "Huntsman's…

Racist trade card illustration depicting an African American woman curtsying toward the viewer. The woman is attired in an elaborate bonnet with faux pink flowers, pink ribbons, white frills, and a yellow chinstrap. She is also attired in a pink…

Author's name supplied from MS note on cover ; date from p. 2, paragraph 1.

Cincinnati naturalist, Thomas Gibson Lea lived in the Pittsburgh area until his marriage in 1822, when he moved with his family to Cincinnati. In this diary, Lea writes of this journey along the Ohio aboard the Antoinette.

Thomas C. Mease was a farmer. The diary, 1788, includes sporadic entries on garden planting and weather. These notations are written in a printed calendar entitled "Aitken's General American Register. . . "

Library Company copy printed on vellum; bound in gold-tooled red straight-grained morocco, with gold-tooled dentelle; gold-tooled blue moiré silk doublures; gilt edges; binder’s ticket: Courteval, relieur, rue des Carmes, no. 1.