Doris Sidney Blake - Diary, 1934-1937

“I am going to see the fish man this morning. Daddy will take me to work with him. I saw the fish man he had two rooms full of fish.” To a nine-year-old girl, an ichthyologist is but a “fish man.” From an early age, Doris Sidney Blake had various scientists at her disposal as the daughter of Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake and USDA botanist Sidney Fay Blake. In a diary she kept from ages six to nine, Blake wrote about trips to the zoo and the museum, play dates with friends, and many, many updates on her cat. Join a group of #volunpeers in transcribing the life of a child in the 1930s. Funding for the digitization of Blake's correspondence, & its inclusion into the Transcription Center, was provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee. For more information about Doris Holmes Blake's collection of personal papers, explore the finding aid.