Marian Lucille Joslyn Mack papers
Scope and content
Collection includes many letters written home to family in Rome, N.Y. documenting her time on campus from freshman through senior years. Many letters are written to "Momma" and discuss campus activities and student life. Also included in the collection are several photographs, one being a large print from Fitchard Studio, photo of the Agricultural Engineering Lab, and two smaller portraits of fellow Cornellians Marian Anderson '33 and Gertrude Miller '33, a former roommate. Other ephemera includes a 1929 Westminster Choir concert program from a performance at Bailey Hall, 1935 leather bound pocket size Freshman Handbook and the 1968 & 1978 pocket directory of the Class of 1933. An October 1950 revision of the June 1941 Cornell Bulletin for Homemakers, #462, Braided Rugs, by Charlotte Brenan Robinson, is also included.
Dates
- 1929-1978-bulk 1929-1933.
Creator
Language of Material
English.
Biographical / Historical
M. Lucille Joslyn attended the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University and associated with the Class of 1933, but did not receive a degree until 1934. She later worked in the treasurer's office at Cornell. Her husband, Bruce D. Mack attended Cornell with the Class of 1935.
Extent
.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- 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
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