Collection: Grace E. Haylett Hartlett Scrapbook

The Grace E. Haylett Hartlett Scrapbook contains correspondence, dance cards, ephemera such as dried flower arrangements, Lawrence College calendars and handbooks, Lawrentian articles, name cards, photographs, programs from various campus and community events, and her dried May Queen crown. According to a letter enclosed in the scrapbook to Carol Butts, a former archivist at Lawrence University, from Grace E. Haylett Hartlett's daughter Helen H. Isreal: "Grace Eliza Haylett was May Queen, President of her sorority and Phi Beta Kappa. She married Chester Thomas Hartlett, also a graduate of Lawrence and as outstanding. Unfortunately, she contracted encephalitis at my birth and spent thirty-five years in a hospital." Isreal goes on the discuss how her mother's Lawrence College education helped her to stay active mentally through "all those years of inactivity."

Dates

1917-1920
Other: Date acquired: 07/22/1993

Creator

Hartlett, Grace E. Haylett (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Lawrence University does not hold the copyright for all materials in this collection. Uses beyond those allowed for fair use under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) require the researcher to secure permission from the copyright holder.