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Photographs and clipping, Emily Elliot Daland papers, 1919-1932

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Open book Photographs and clipping, Emily Elliot Daland papers, 1919-1932

Title Photographs and clipping, Emily Elliot Daland papers, 1919-1932

Creator Daland, Emily Elliot, 1854-1933

Date 1919-1932

Place United States

Language English

Subjects Female friendship, Manuscripts, American

Description Mainly letters from Emily Elliot Daland of Massachusetts to Helen Gerard in Florence, Italy, with a few to Gerard’s daughter Pauline, for whom Daland was acting as guardian of her small estate. Topics in letters include World War I shortages and hardships, the influenza epidemic, Hoover’s presidency, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. Also, three letters from Helen Gerard, a clipping, and a small collection of family snapshots.

Summary Mainly letters from a New England woman, Emily Elliot Daland, to a friend in Italy, Helen Gerard, whose young daughter had inherited a small estate for which Daland was guardian. The letters touch on many subjects that concerned typical Americans during World War I, the 1920s and then the Depression, such as the shortages and hardships, the influenza epidemic, the League of Nations, Prohibition, Hoover's presidency, labor strikes, and so on. Daland offers much advice to Gerard, who was always in need of money and clothes, and to her daughter who was becoming an unsuccessful artist. Included in the collection is a fragment of a letter from Tucker Daland announcing Emily's death in 1933, three letters from Gerard to Daland, a small group of family snapshots, and a newspaper clipping regarding an apparent Elliot relative.

Biographical/Historical Note Massachusetts wife and mother, born 1854 and died 1933.

Format Correspondence, Photographs

Archival Collection Title Emily Elliot Daland papers

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS 155 Box 1 Folder 4

BibID 998225158805867

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Size 1306px × 1007px 3.79 MB

File Created 07/14/2016

Filename 998225158805867_mms_155_box_01_fl_004_001_01.tif

Unique Identifier NL1W90L

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