The diary covers the period of Feb. 1 to May 12, 1895, and describes George Zimmerman's journey from Sherman Heights, Tennessee, to Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia, where he stays for most of the volume. Descriptions of businesses, weather, his drawings of people for pay, his boarding house, church and religion, his health, the railway trip South, and many other details. Another diary, not in the possession of the Archives, followed this one.