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Eleanore Myers Jewett Scrapbook, 1903-1952; Box and Folder; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.
Portions of the collection donated in two donations one made by Jane Stickler and another by David L. Gosda, 2010.
Digital surrogates of BC15.14 are available online at: http://digitalcollections.barnard.edu/islandora/object/BC15-14:0
No additions are expected.
This collection was processed and the finding aid written by Dinah Handel, July 2015.
Finding Aid updated by Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez in October, 2017.
Descriptive Rules Used: Finding aid adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Encoding: Machine readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002.
Finding aid written in English.
Eleanore Myers Jewett was born April 4th, 1890. She began attending Barnard as a commuter student in 1908, and was very active in both academic and extracurricular areas of Barnard life, working as a staff writer on the
The collection contains scrapbooks, notebooks, clippings, personal notes, and manuscripts belonging to Eleanore Myers Jewett. Scrapbooks provide detailed records of Jewett's time at Barnard, and contain handwritten, comprehensive schedules of Jewett's days, as well as newspaper clippings, programs, and correspondence relevant to her activities. The scrapbooks also contain black and white candid photographs, cyanotypes, class songs, booklets from both opening exercises and commencement, descriptions of outfits/costumes worn for Barnard events, and records of the changing mottos/songs of the class of 1912.
Also included in the collection are Jewett's poetry and short stories, and copies of her published work
The collection is arranged into three series:
Series 1, Personal papers, 1903 - undated
Series 1 contains notebooks, manuscripts, and clippings of work by Eleanore Myers Jewett.
Series 2, Scrapbooks, 1908 - 1912
Scrapbooks in Series 2 are arranged chronologically in four bound volumes; each volume corresponds to a single academic year.
Series 3, Published Works, 1912 - 1952
Series 3 contains copies of St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, which contains Jewett's work, her book Felicity Finds a Way, and an annotated copy of the 1912 Mortarboard.