Eloise Marie Decker College Days album

Collection — Box: SC

Identifier: S6003

Staff Only

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

Decker, Eloise, 1882 February 12-1979 (Person)

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

Additional Description

Abstract

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.

Related Materials:

NEMHC Archival Collections S3639 Craggencroft School records

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.

Subjects

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