Frances Elizabeth Willard Searles scrapbook
Scope and content
Scrapbook contains items relating to student life at Cornell from the 19-teens. Activities documented include the Cornell Dramatic Club, YWCA, and Kermis. Programs from many dramatic and musical performances at Cornell, Bailey Hall, and in Ithaca at the Lyceum Theater. Of note are programs for violinist Fritz Kreisler. Several of the programs are for drama performances with A. R. Drummond in which Searles was an actress. Other unique items the scrapbook contains include her jersey numbers for baseball and hockey and a bird watching list from a trip with Arthur Allen. There is a burned piece of paper from the Morse Hall fire. There are several grade reports and multiple letters from the Risley Hall residence committee notifying her of penalties for breaking curfew. Two letters from Hollis Dann indicate that she continually missed his music classes. A letter from a friend discusses seeing a show with Ethel Barrymore in New York City. There are several clippings regarding the Cornell ambulance squad and Edward Tinkham heading into World War One as the first American soldiers in the war. There is also a clipping about William "Daddy" George and the book is signed by Eleanor George. Photographs, athletic ephemera, several pieces on women's suffrage and a few dance cards are also included. Several photographs show women dressed as men in a mock wedding.
Dates
- 1914-1918.
Creator
Language of Material
English.
Biographical / Historical
Frances Searles graduated from Cornell University in 1918 where she studied agriculture and home economics, she also attended Syracuse University during the 1914-1915 school year. At Cornell she was involved in dramatic productions and also played on the hockey team. She attended Horseheads High School. Post Cornell she worked in extension work for several counties in New York. She was employed with the New York State Home Bureau in Monroe, Genesee, and Orleans county. She also served as the executive secretary of the Erie County League of Women Voters. Her career spanned numerous moves around western New York. She never married.
Extent
.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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