Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists of a single diary maintained by Olive Graef Treat, a resident of New York, Chicago, and Seattle; and wife of Harry W. Treat, a successful mining venture capitalist. The entries commence in Chicago on January 1, 1897 and continue through the year nearly uninterrupted. The first diary entry is in a different hand--presumably that of Harry W. Treat--and during two occasions of a week or more in which Olive Treat did not have access to the diary, entries were made by her...

Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists of a single diary maintained by Olive Graef Treat, a resident of New York, Chicago, and Seattle; and wife of Harry W. Treat, a successful mining venture capitalist. The entries commence in Chicago on January 1, 1897 and continue through the year nearly uninterrupted. The first diary entry is in a different hand--presumably that of Harry W. Treat--and during two occasions of a week or more in which Olive Treat did not have access to the diary, entries were made by her...