Diaries

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1125005
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{"value"=>"1920s-1983", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920/1983"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Series consists of multiple volumes that served as diaries as well as daily planners and account books. The volumes hold information pertaining to both her personal and professional life. The earliest volumes are primarily account books, noting the purchasing or selling of alcohol possibly for her club Bricktop's. The volumes from 1926, for example, list salary and liquor amounts, the amount celebrities such as Cole Porter paid for bottles of alcohol, and Charleston and Black Bottom lessons. Bricktop often attended Charleston cocktail parties, hosted at the private residences of people such as the Prince of Wales, Cole Porter, and Elsa Maxwell, where she taught dance lessons to Dolly and Jay O'Brian, Arturo Lopez, Lady Mendle, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and the Duchess of Marlborough to name a few. In 1926, Bricktop made her first attempt to open her own club, the Music Box, which is noted in one of the volumes. To christen its opening, she threw a party for the Prince of Wales. In the summer of '26, Bricktop also accompanied the Porters to a residence at Rezzonico in Venice where she gave Charleston lessons and performed with Leslie \"Hutch\" Hutchinson. The volumes note as well other details such as the arrival date of Florence Mills in Paris and her address in London. In the later diaries, after the 1950s, Bricktop began to write prayers and scripture. There are also entries regarding dinner dates with people, e. g. Ruth and Ralph Bunche. The volumes list daily appointments and addresses, serve as daily food logs, as well as hold traditional journal entries noting her activities, thoughts, etc.</p>"}
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1920
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1920
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1983
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1920
date_inclusive_end
1983

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  1. 1920s-1930, 1926
  2. 1937-1939
  3. 1948-1949
  4. 1950-1951
  5. 1952-1953
  6. 1956-1957
  7. 1958-circa 1960
  8. 1961-1962
  9. 1963-1964
  10. 1965
  11. 1966-1967
  12. 1968
  13. 1969-1970
  14. 1971
  15. 1972
  16. 1973-1974
  17. 1975
  18. 1976-1977
  19. 1978-1981
  20. 1980
  21. 1981-1983
  22. 1983
  23. Calendars