Ann Pletta Dyckman family papers,1944-2013.

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 6870

Scope and content

Bible (New Testament) belonging to William Page, inscribed "to May Page with love from Alice, May 21, 1896; biographical sketches of the Class of 1863, Hamilton College, 1879; and Wells College grade card for Alice Page, 1884.

Scope and content

Letters to Alice Pletta about Alice Ann, 1934; letters from Alice Ann to her parents, Dan and Alice,1940s, with World War II ration books and letters from the University of Michigan between Alice Ann and her parents, 1950s; letters from Ann to her parents, 1950s and 1960s; letters between Ann and Tom Dyckman; and letters from Tom Dyckman to his parents, Clovis and Wildarene Dyckman.

Scope and content

Diaries, 1944-1946 and 1947 kept by Ann Pletta in Blacksburg, Virginia and West Point, N.Y. as a 10-13-year-old. Diary, 1956 kept by Ann Pletta Dyckman when she was first married. Letters from Ann to her parents Dan and Alice May Austin (Page) Pletta, 1952-1958. Also letters from Linda Ann Dyckman (born 1963) written to her parents Ann and Tom Dyckman, 1978-1981.

Dates

1944 - 2013
Undated

Creator

Dyckman, Alice Ann Pletta, 1934- (Person)
Pletta, Alice. (Person)
Pletta, Dan Henry. (Person)
Dyckman, Thomas R. (Person)
Dyckman, Linda. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Ann Dyckman served as director of Library Human Resources at Cornell University.

Biographical / Historical

William Page, a graduate of Hamilton College and Presbyterian minister in Trumansburg, N.Y. and elsewhere, married Jennie M. Peck; they had three children: William (b. 1864), May (b. 1869), and Alice (b. 1866). Alice Page attended Wells College and Married James Austin; they had two children Noble and Alice May (b. 1903). Alice May Austin married Dan Henry Pletta; they had two daughters, Alice Ann and Nancy May. Alice Ann (Ann) graduated from the University of Michigan and married Thomas R. Dyckman; they had four children, Daniel Frank, James Richard Linda Ann, and David Lee.