This scrapbook is restricted due to its fragility. Photocopies can be made for researchers who would like to use this material.
Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. The Barnard Archives and Special Collections approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Photocopies or scans may be made for research purposes.
Frances A. Henderson and Amy L. Schaeffer Scrapbook, 1945; Box and Folder; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.
The acquisition date and source is unknown.
No additions are expected.
This collection was processed and the finding aid written by Alice Griffin, July 2015.
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.
This collection consists of photographs from Henderson and Schaeffer's travels and work in India. The black-and-white and color photographs are mostly of Henderson, Schaeffer, and their traveling companions; the Taj Mahal; buildings; and street scenes.
Of interest in the collection are photographs of a parade after Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. Also of note are photographs of Mahatma Gandhi and a September 1945 meeting of the All India Congress Committee. It is unclear whether the photos of Gandhi and the All India Congress Committee were taken by Henderson and Schaeffer or another photographer.
This collection is arranged chronologically.
Frances A. Henderson and Amy L. Schaeffer graduated from Barnard in 1937. Schaeffer moved to India because of her position in the United States Office of War Information (OWI). She started at the newsdesk there and then began working in Special Projects (Alumnae Magazine, 1912-2015; Box 1, Volume 35; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College).