Eloise Marie Decker College Days album
Scope and Contents
Contains one photograph album titled College Days, compiled and lettered by Eloise Marie Decker during 1901-1902 while a student at Craggencroft school in Duluth, Minnesota. There are two copy negatives, one of Eloise at the time of her marriage in 1903, and one of her as a elderly woman. There are photocopies of the two photographs which were lent by the family for copying. Eloise's nickname was Pete. She and her brother gave each other nicknames when she was very young: she was Pete, he was Dude. Emma Decker, Eloise's older sister, taught French and German at Craggencroft. Emma went to Dana Hall, near Boston, and to Wellesley.
The photographs include the building and grounds, faculty, brook, bridges, Eloise's room showing furnishings, collected items, photographs, boating on the St. Louis river at Fond du Lac, young men and young women students and guests leaning out of the school's windows, Fayal iron ore mine at Eveleth (Minnesota), the Hargreaves' house, MacFarlane's pond ice skating, skatehouse, Glen Avon church, Pike Lake (Duluth), Grand Marais (Minnesota), Isle Royale (Michigan),
Dates
- 1901-1902
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Open for use in the Kathryn A. Martin Library, Archives and Special Collections.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
Born 1882 February 12, the last of six children, three girls and three boys. The Decker family was German, and lived in a German community in Evansville, Indiana. The children were taught German as a second language. Eloise went to Craggencroft for a postgraduate year after Evansville Girls' School. It was her final year of education. She studied Latin through Horace, rhetoric, and physics. The plan was for her to go to Smith College after Craggencroft, but reverses at home altered the plan and she returned home. She married Charles Foster Story on New Year's Eve 1903 in her family's home where she had been born. The couple moved to Syracuse, New York, and later Fayetteville. She reared a family of four, the marriage ended, and Eloise died in 1979.
Extent
1.00 Volumes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Contains one photograph album titled College Days, compiled and lettered by Eloise Marie Decker during 1901-1902 while a student at Craggencroft school in Duluth, Minnesota. There are two copy negatives, one of Eloise at the time of her marriage in 1903, and one of her as a elderly woman. There are photocopies of the two photographs which were lent by the family for copying.
Physical Location
This collection is located at the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives. For more information about this collection or to make an appointment, contact us at libarchives@d.umn.edu or 218-726-8526.
General
This collection is part of the Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections, which are housed in the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives at the Kathryn A. Martin Library.
- Biography Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- College students Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Craggencroft School, Duluth (Minn.) Subject Source: Local sources
- Duluth (Minn.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Education Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Educators Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Extra-curricular activities Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Families Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Immigrant families Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Neighborhoods Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photograph Albums Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Schools Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Eloise Marie Decker College Days album
- Author
- Finding Aid Authors: P. Maus.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Collecting Area Details
Contact The University of Minnesota Duluth Archives and Special Collections Collecting Area
Kathryn A. Martin Library
University of Minnesota Duluth
416 Library Drive
Duluth MN 55812-3001
(218) 726-8526
libarchives@d.umn.edu