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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_025
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Alternative Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1
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Date
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1899
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Creator
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Elizabeth Van Sant
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Description
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Elizabeth Van Sant transcribed letters
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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24 the yellow-breasted chat with three eggs. We made it the subject of our first nest picture of the day, taking two pictures. Frank strolled up the Happy Valley alone, and seeing a small rotten stub four or five feet high with a hole in it, he broke it off, intending to show us what the excavation of a downy woodpecker looks like. He was much surprised, upon breaking open the cavity, to find five eggs of the chickadee with incubation well begun. He had no idea of the cavity being occupied so late in the season as both the woodpecker and the chickadee generally nest much earlier. There was nothing that could be done to repair the damage. By a patient effort later he managed to save the set complete, and the stub about 3 ½ inches in diameter we took with us. Nest of the red-eyed vireo, suspended in the fork of a twig on a lateral branch in a small tree, twelve feet from the ground. Its position was very conspicuous. The bird was on the nest. June 5 Today we set up the two-foot stub out of doors, replaced the five eggs of the chickadee before preparing them for preservation, and took a photograph. It makes a pretty panel picture, the eggs visible through the side which had been broken away. June 8 Our home is a rented cottage at 1135 Georgia Avenue, a bit less than two miles from the business center of Omaha where our duties call us. Father and Frank and I almost always walk down town together, and on each occasion make
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Rights
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