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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Biography of Emily Elliot Daland
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Inventory of the Emily Elliot Daland Papers, 1916-1933
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Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Daland, Emily Elliot |
| Title | Emily Elliot Daland Papers |
| Dates | 1916-1933 |
| Extent | 0.1 cubic ft. (4 folders) |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS 155 |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 35 3 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Emily Elliot Daland Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Donor unknown.
Processed by
Virginia Hay Smith, 2008.
Access
The Emily Elliot Daland Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Emily Elliot Daland Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of Emily Elliot Daland
Massachusetts wife and mother, born 1854 and died 1933.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
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.
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Daland, Emily Elliot
Subjects
- Correspondence -- Massachusetts -- 1916-1933
- Female friendship -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
- Manuscripts, American
- Photographs -- 1919-1932
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence, outgoing, 1916-1922 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence, 1926-1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence, incoming, 1928-1931 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Photographs and clipping, 1919-1932 and undated | |||||||||