Scope and content
Diaries and scrapbooks; class notes from Geneseo Normal School, the University of Rochester, and Syracuse University; a photo album, and correspondence; notes relating to her teaching in Rochester, N.Y.; files relating to extension work and the Home Bureau; W.C.T.U. files; and miscellaneous clippings and publications. Also one manuscript volume "Poems, Maybe" by Grace Evelyn Mills. Also one folder containing correspondence (1956) relating to a "fashion" exhibit mounted by Mrs. Holton, and one ticket to a lecture by Mrs. Holton in 1933.
Dates
- ca. 1916-1980.
Creator
- Holton, Gladys Reid, 1898-1984. (Person)
- Mills, Grace Evelyn. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Gladys Reid Holton was born June 29, 1898 in Auburn, New York. She began a teaching career in the 1920s. During the 1930s-1940s she was heavily involved in traditional household arts and crafts. Holton was curator of History of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1950s-1960s. She retired from the Strong Museum in 1976.
Extent
15.9 cubic feet. (15.9 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- College students -- New York (State)
- Diaries
- Education, Higher -- New York (State)
- Geneseo Normal School (N.Y.)
- Home Bureau (Rochester, N.Y.)
- Home economics -- Study and teaching.
- Home economics extension work.
- Nutrition extension work.
- Scrapbooks
- State University of New York College, Geneseo
- Syracuse University
- Teaching -- New York (State) -- Rochester.
- University of Rochester
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Women -- Societies and clubs.
- Women college students -- New York (State)
- Women's diaries.
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)