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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Caroline Swain Long Record Book, #4239-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1980

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Finding aid updated for digitization by Kathryn Michaelis, August 2010

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Advertising--Toilet preparations--United States--History--19th century.
• Athens (Ga.)--Social life and customs.
• Cyrus J. Lawrence & Sons.
• Death--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Elegiac poetry, American--Georgia.
• Home economics--Georgia--Accounting--History--19th century.
• Long, Caroline Swain, fl. 1858-1860.
• Long, Crawford Williamson, 1815-1878.
• Long, Ellen Rosetta.
• Toilet preparations--United States--History--19th century.
• Women--Georgia--Social life and customs.

Caroline Swain Long married Crawford W. Long (1815-1876) of Athens, Ga., in 1842. She lived in Athens and Danielsville, Ga.

The collection is a personal record book kept by Caroline Swain Long, 1858-1860, while whe was living in Athens, Ga. An elegy for Long's daughter, Ellen (Ella) Rosetta, who died 1 July 1859, is the main entry in the book. Other entries are lists of clothing, expenses, and names and birth dates, which may be of slaves or family members. The first seventy-one pages in the book comprise a printed catalog for Cyrus J. Lawrence, toiletries importer, of New York City.