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Preferred Citation:

Dodie Bailey Diary, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Acquisition Information:

Purchase.

Biographical Information:

Dodie Bailey lived in Bailey's Crossroads near Falls Church, Virginia during the mid 1920's and possibly later. She was 21 in 1933.

Scope and Contents

Diary of Dodie Bailey of Bailey's Cross Roads, Virginia, near Falls Church. She began the diary when she was 14 years old and ended it in 1933 when she was 21 years old.

She talks of her social life which includes dates, dances, swimming, movies, drives, church, family events and school - but mostly about boys.

Diary is bound with a clasp, but the pages are loose. Pages appear to be from different diaries. Key to diary is included.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Bailey's Cross Roads (Va.)
• Diaries
• High school students--United States--Social life and customs--20th century
• Teenage girls--Diaries
• Teenagers--Social life and customs
• Teenagers--United States--Diaries
• Teenagers--Virginia
• Virginia--Social life and customs--20th century