Records of the Class of 1914
Scope and Contents
Records of the Class of 1914, dating from 1889 to 1993, consisting of event programs, photographs, photo albums, scrapbooks, correspondence, course materials, a commemorative calendar, reunion records, financial records, care files and notebooks with updates on alumnae, and records relating to the College Hall Fire, including speculation as to its cause. Also includes records from Anne H. Webb’s time serving as Director of the Extension Division of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, pertaining to a program that provided a cultural series of illustrative sets to local schools, and two decades of correspondence of the Class President, Edith Ryder Remington. Of note are some papers of Harriet Stratemeyer, who was an author responsible for many books of the Nancy Drew series, and the papers of Katherine K. Davis, pianist, composer, and author of "The Little Drummer Boy.”
Dates
- Creation: 1889-1993
Creator
- Wellesley College. Class of 1914 (Organization)
- Davis, Katherine, 1892-1980 (Person)
- Webb, Lillian Anne (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research, but contains some material which has been restricted as per the Wellesley College Archives Access Policy: https://www.wellesley.edu/lts/policies/archivesaccess. To make an appointment to view unrestricted materials, please contact the Archives staff by email at archives@wellesley.edu or by phone at (781) 283-3745.
Conditions Governing Use
The Wellesley College Archives welcomes researchers to use materials in the public domain, to make fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law, and to request permission to use works whose copyright is held by Wellesley College. All materials from the Archives, regardless of copyright status, should be attributed to the Wellesley College Archives, Library and Technology Services when cited, quoted, or reproduced.
Historical Note
Wellesley College, first named The Wellesley Female Seminary, was founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant. In 1875, 314 students enrolled as part of the first class. 18 of those women graduated in 1879.
Extent
27.4 Linear Feet (27 boxes and 17 oversize boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
6C Classes collections are artificial collections. Artificial collections are created by Archivists bringing together multiple smaller acquisitions to the archives from multiple creators, and organizing them based on their subject. This is unlike most archival collections which are organized by provenance, meaning by the original creator, and which maintain the original creator’s arrangement of the collection. Given that 6C Classes collections include contents from multiple creators, Archives staff have imposed criteria for when files from one individual should be grouped into its own series (a sub-grouping within the collection that gives supplementary description about the creator): series are established when there are ten or more files from one creator present in a collection.
- Title
- Wellesley College. Class of 1914. Records of the Class of 1914, 1889-1993: a guide
- Author
- Natalia Gutierrez-Jones, Project Archivist
- Date
- 2019 June 11
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Wellesley College Archives Repository