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Edna McKee-Houston Scrapbooks 1897 - 1911
1897-1911
Metadata Details
- Title
- Edna McKee-Houston Scrapbooks 1897 - 1911
- Creator
- Houston, Edna Mckee
- Subject
- Houston, Edna Mckee, Chatham University -- History -- Sources, Edna McKee Houston -- Archives, Women’s education -- History -- Sources
- Description
- The two scrapbooks from Edna McKee Houston detail her life while attending the Pennsylvania College for Women (P.C.W.) and shortly afterward as well as events in which P.C.W and alumnae were mentioned. The first scrapbook covers the years of 1897 – 1907 and includes photographs of her classmates, scenery, rooms, and events. The second scrapbook ranges from 1901 to 1918, containing only newspaper clippings from those years. The clippings detail events which she was part of as well as mentions of people connected to P.C.W., Physical Characteristics / Technical Requirements: Photographs in this series have been kept on original scrapbook paper and some are fragile and exhibit damage., Edna McKee-Houston Scrapbooks, RG11.2018.005, Chatham University Archives & Special Collections., Edna (Garfielda) McKee attended the Pennsylvania College for Women (P.C.W.) from 1900 – 1904. Her senior thesis was titled, "The Lesson of the `Idylls of the King.'” McKee was an active member in the Alumnae Association, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the College Club, and the Red Cross. She was the head of P.C.W.’s Decade Club IV 1901-1910, a subset of the P.C.W. Alumnae Association. Edna McKee Houston was of treasurer of the Alumnae Association during the 1940s Building Fund for P.C.W. Edna McKee Houston died at the age of 102 in 1983 and is buried at Union Dale Cemetery in Pittsburgh, PA.
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Chatham University (depositor)
- Date
- 1897-1911
- Type
- Collection
- Format
- Identifier
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/