Erskine School Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the Erskine School Alumnae reunions from 1980 to 1991. Included is information regarding attendance and activities of these reunions, four of which took place in Boston. The collection contains photographs, news clippings, and correspondence; also included are brief autobiographies of fifty-two individual alumnae, detailing their lives since Erskine, their memories of the school, and photographs of themselves and their families. The Erskine School collection also contains records pertaining to the two directors, Euphemia McClintock and Edith Richardson, before, during and after their time at the Erskine School.
Dates
- 1938-1992
- Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1992
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Items in this collection may be subject to copyright restrictions. In most cases, the Boston Public Library does not hold the copyright to the items in our collections. It is the sole responsibility of the user to make their own determination about what types of usage might be permissible under U.S. and international copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
The Erskine School was founded by Euphemia McClintock in 1923, and was located on Beacon Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The school’s mission was to provide young women who had graduated from a private school or college, or those capable of completing college-level work, a well-rounded liberal arts education. Students chose a general course of study or the secretarial studies program, and classes in art, drama, and music were catered to the individual. Students were expected to be culturally, socially, and financially sound, so courses in general economics and current events were required. Course work and classes were also offered in Executive Training and Business Management. Edith Richardson was an English teacher, assistant director, and then director of the Erskine School after Miss McClintock, until its closing in 1942. The alumnae stayed in contact with one another, and forty years after the closing of the school, they began to organize reunions.
Extent
94.00 Items
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Source of Acquisition
Erskine School
Method of Acquisition
Donation
Processing Information
Processed by Chandler Parker, 2017
Processing Information
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- Title
- Erskine School Collection
- Author
- Chandler Parker
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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