[ CALIFORNIA, San Diego and M AINE, South Bewick. ]
ANONYMOUS. Diary.
One volume. Dated 1946, recorded in printed 1906 commercial "Wanamaker Diary" blank book.
Significant record by diarist depicting family and work life, first in San Diego then South Bewick, Maine. We've seen more than a few diaries kept by men and this is certainly up there near the top for content...intimate details of home life, schedules, activities, family members, work, the office, church, socializing at the Officer's Club, and on and on. The problem with this manuscript is that we don't know the man's name. Much of the diary is a record of his family's move from California to Maine. He's liberal with the exclamation points and from the way he lives, he means them,as he waxes at times effusive and at times, remains reticent.

7-1/2" high x 6-1/4" wide x 1" thick, 446 numbered pages, extensive advertisements, intact integral fold-out intricate street map of Philadelphia in 1906, also botanical specimens taped in, and diary entries in this Baedecker-cum-vademecum-cum-gazeteer. Quite the production. Pink cloth over boards stamped "The Wanamaker Diary 1906". Exterior spine chipped at foot, sunned and slight wear front and back, hinges intact, interior tight though cocked in covers. Legible engrossing in ink.

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(Above) Wanamaker's distinctive pink makes the volume easy to locate amongst more traditonal book cloth colors.

(Left) The diarist joins the Sons of the American Revolution, reads and admires Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "The Minister's Black Veil," and thinks little of the new ''Redbook' magazine in which author Gladys Hasty Carroll's effort does little to please him.

(Right)The writer obtains a $2 per week raise at the store, take his children out, and in general becomes an ardent booster of South Bewick, Maine (see exclamation marks on two entries).

(Below) Daughter Annie's train drawing held onto the page with an early form of adhesive cellophane tape.