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Box 1

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Contains 17 Results:

E-mail from donor, 2007 June 6

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Katherine Tenney correspondence collection consists of 131 letters sent from St. Mary’s to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney, between the years 1934 and 1937. The content of these letters includes descriptions of Katherine’s daily social and academic life at the Seminary; requests for permission to travel outside of St. Mary’s; and accounts of frequent trips to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The collection also includes several inserts, such as a copy of an arsenic receipt, a number...
Dates: 2007 June 6

Letters, 1934 September 13 - 1934 December 13

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents September 13, 1934 – Addressed to Mr. + Mrs. C. A. Tenney - Tenney excited to be a member of a sorority on campus & not have to pay sorority dues. - Underscores significance of sorority on campus - Discusses scarlet fever quarantine (and how the school addressed contagious illnesses at the time) - Sometimes addresses someone named “Jean” (older sister).October 8, 1934 – Addressed to Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Tenney - Discusses the conditions under 3-week scarlet fever...
Dates: 1934 September 13 - 1934 December 13

Letters, 1935 January 4 - 1935 June 6

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents January 4, 1935 – Addressed to Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney - Left clothes at home, requests them to be sent to herJanuary 7, 1935 – Addressed to Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney - Thanks parents for fruits - Sends Jean shower shoes - “Well, I ain’t sweet 16, them days is gone forever”January 14, 1935 – Addressed to Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney - “Dear Folkses, Honesty Mrs. Woodall is one person I really could get great joy out of taking something and knocking her flat.” - Mrs....
Dates: 1935 January 4 - 1935 June 6

Letters, 1935 September 16 - 1935 December 16

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents September 16, 1935 – Addressed to Mrs. C.A. Tenney - Mentions an accident in passing - Asks for a metronome - Discusses new mail system and her new course load/class scheduleSeptember 16, 1935 – Addressed to Mrs. C.A. Tenney - Unsure about whether she can take Science – asks about Drexel catalogue - “Now for the teachers – the business teacher Mrs. Shellrick is inexcusable, terrible. She looks awful and I’d die if I had classes from her.” - Transitions into discussion of...
Dates: 1935 September 16 - 1935 December 16

Letters, 1936 January 13 - 1936 June 3

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents January 13, 1936 – Addressed to Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney - Discusses cost of school bill and personal financial status - Is planning a surprise birthday party for Anne Blackistone - Two girls did Katherine’s laundry for her - Katherine has to come back a day early on Easter break to do laundry - Louella came and had a little accident. - The water pipe burst over Christmas break - Basketball game last night between Sophomores and Juniors in High School - Katherine has been asked to...
Dates: 1936 January 13 - 1936 June 3

Letters, 1936 September 21 - 1936 December 14

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents September 21, 1936 – Addressed to Mrs. C.A. Tenney - Describes Betty’s “very pretty” roommate, Gladys Mertz, daughter of pres. of Bureau of standards; “She is charming, refined + cultured. She went around with the better class in Balt. + Wash. – that type;” she is engaged to be married in June - Discusses course schedule; unsure whether Home Ec course will count for credit at Drexel. - Encloses arsenic receipt - Health + physiology course is mandatory - Plans to buy furniture for...
Dates: 1936 September 21 - 1936 December 14

Letters, 1937 January 8 - 1937 January 11

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents January 5, 1937 – addressed to Mrs. C.A. Tenney - Got home safely - Mentions price of travel January 11, 1937 – addressed to Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney - Sunday: Betty says hello - Did not go to the movies with her friends - “Miss France sent the H.S. to bed at 9 + us at 10 the other nite – She said we were all worn out from Xmas + too there is the epidemic going around etc.” “Nothing serious.” - Making up a day of school tomorrow (Monday)/will have a six-day week - Plans to...
Dates: 1937 January 8 - 1937 January 11

Photocopies of Letters, 1934

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Katherine Tenney correspondence collection consists of 131 letters sent from St. Mary’s to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney, between the years 1934 and 1937. The content of these letters includes descriptions of Katherine’s daily social and academic life at the Seminary; requests for permission to travel outside of St. Mary’s; and accounts of frequent trips to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The collection also includes several inserts, such as a copy of an arsenic receipt, a number...
Dates: 1934

Photocopies of Letters, 1935

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Katherine Tenney correspondence collection consists of 131 letters sent from St. Mary’s to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney, between the years 1934 and 1937. The content of these letters includes descriptions of Katherine’s daily social and academic life at the Seminary; requests for permission to travel outside of St. Mary’s; and accounts of frequent trips to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The collection also includes several inserts, such as a copy of an arsenic receipt, a number...
Dates: 1935

Photocopies of Letters, 1936 - 1937

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Katherine Tenney correspondence collection consists of 131 letters sent from St. Mary’s to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney, between the years 1934 and 1937. The content of these letters includes descriptions of Katherine’s daily social and academic life at the Seminary; requests for permission to travel outside of St. Mary’s; and accounts of frequent trips to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The collection also includes several inserts, such as a copy of an arsenic receipt, a number...
Dates: 1936 - 1937

Report Cards, one Music Program for recital of Jeanette Roelke and Katherine Tenney, 1935-1936

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Katherine Tenney correspondence collection consists of 131 letters sent from St. Mary’s to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney, between the years 1934 and 1937. The content of these letters includes descriptions of Katherine’s daily social and academic life at the Seminary; requests for permission to travel outside of St. Mary’s; and accounts of frequent trips to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The collection also includes several inserts, such as a copy of an arsenic receipt, a number...
Dates: 1935-1936

Hand-colored photo of Lucille Eldridge (b. ca. 1917), 1931 December 25

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Katherine Tenney correspondence collection consists of 131 letters sent from St. Mary’s to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney, between the years 1934 and 1937. The content of these letters includes descriptions of Katherine’s daily social and academic life at the Seminary; requests for permission to travel outside of St. Mary’s; and accounts of frequent trips to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The collection also includes several inserts, such as a copy of an arsenic receipt, a number...
Dates: 1931 December 25

Library Reading Permit, 1935

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Katherine Tenney correspondence collection consists of 131 letters sent from St. Mary’s to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney, between the years 1934 and 1937. The content of these letters includes descriptions of Katherine’s daily social and academic life at the Seminary; requests for permission to travel outside of St. Mary’s; and accounts of frequent trips to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The collection also includes several inserts, such as a copy of an arsenic receipt, a number...
Dates: 1935

"Farewell" poetry assignment, 3 versions. (One modeled after "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe, the other modeled after "Danny Dever" by Rudyard Kipling

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Katherine Tenney correspondence collection consists of 131 letters sent from St. Mary’s to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney, between the years 1934 and 1937. The content of these letters includes descriptions of Katherine’s daily social and academic life at the Seminary; requests for permission to travel outside of St. Mary’s; and accounts of frequent trips to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The collection also includes several inserts, such as a copy of an arsenic receipt, a number...
Dates: 1934-1937

St. Mary's Female Seminary pennant

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Katherine Tenney correspondence collection consists of 131 letters sent from St. Mary’s to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney, between the years 1934 and 1937. The content of these letters includes descriptions of Katherine’s daily social and academic life at the Seminary; requests for permission to travel outside of St. Mary’s; and accounts of frequent trips to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The collection also includes several inserts, such as a copy of an arsenic receipt, a number...
Dates: 1934-1937

Glamour photograph of Kay Ladridge in the New York Herald Tribune (undated), about 1938

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Katherine Tenney correspondence collection consists of 131 letters sent from St. Mary’s to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney, between the years 1934 and 1937. The content of these letters includes descriptions of Katherine’s daily social and academic life at the Seminary; requests for permission to travel outside of St. Mary’s; and accounts of frequent trips to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The collection also includes several inserts, such as a copy of an arsenic receipt, a number...
Dates: about 1938

Loose scrapbook ephemera

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Katherine Tenney correspondence collection consists of 131 letters sent from St. Mary’s to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney, between the years 1934 and 1937. The content of these letters includes descriptions of Katherine’s daily social and academic life at the Seminary; requests for permission to travel outside of St. Mary’s; and accounts of frequent trips to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The collection also includes several inserts, such as a copy of an arsenic receipt, a number...
Dates: 1934-1937