Inventory of the Notes on My Life Manuscript, circa 1863
Collection Number 3651-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
Back to Top
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Schweizer, Johann Conrad, b. 1812.
- Title
- Notes on My Life Manuscript, circa 1863
- Call Number
- 3651-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 1 item (24 pages).
Back to Top
Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Notes on My Life Manuscript, #3651-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Alabama--Social life and customs.
- Autobiographies--Southern States.
- Farmers--United States--History--19th century.
- Georgia--Social life and customs.
- Immigrants--United States--History--19th century.
- Knoxville (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
- Merchants--United States--History--19th century.
- Migration, Internal--United States--History--19th century.
- Saint Louis (Mo.)--Social life and customs.
- Schweizer, Johann Conrad, b. 1812.
- Swiss Americans--History--19th century.
- Teachers--United States--History--19th century.
- Tell City (Ind.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Tennessee--Social life and customs.
Collection Overview
Autobiographical notes, diary entries, and copies of letters (circa 1812-1863), under the title, "Notes on My Life," by Johann C. Schweizer, a Swiss immigrant to the United States, chiefly concerning his struggles to make a living as a farmer, teacher, and shopkeeper in Knoxville, Roane County, and other places in Tennessee and in Georgia, Alabama, St. Louis, Mo., and Tell City, Ind.