Jerome Papers.
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Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Jerome Family Papers consist of a scrapbook, an autograph album, a commonplace book, a spelling book, course records, and school catalogue, biographical and genealogical information, and photographs. The individuals represented are relatives of Jennie Gilbert Jerome (1888-1979), a 1911 graduate of Mount Holyoke College. The material relates to her grandmother, Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome (1824-1910); her aunt, Jennie G. Jerome (1861-1887); her mother, Elizabeth Maude Jerome (1864-1939); and her brother, Gilbert Nelson Jerome (1889-1918). Much of the collection consists of items dating from 1914-1922 and 1956 that relate to her brother. This material includes a tribute entitled "In Memory of Yale's Dead in the War" and a published biography of him written by his mother. There are also photographs and a photograph album concerning his military service and death in World War I. These images include photographs of him in uniform with his airplane, of his funeral and burial sites in France and Connecticut and of the memorial stone and Tiffany window commissioned in his honor. Also included are pages about him from the International YMCA College (Springfield, Massachusetts) yearbook of 1914. Material for his mother, Elizabeth Maude Jerome, consists of a scrapbook of small highly-colored and embossed die-cut chromolithographs compiled in about 1876, an autograph album dating from about 1877-1881 that includes signatures of Hartford Female Seminary classmates and teachers, a letter from the 1920s requesting genealogical information, and her obituary. Material for her sister Jennie G. Jerome consists of items dating from 1873-1879 when she, too, attended Hartford Female Seminary. This material includes a published "Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes" by William T. Adams, 1873, her notes for her studies, and a school catalogue for 1878-1879. Material for their mother Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome consists of a commonplace book from 1850-circa 1870 that contains "Prose and Poetry, And Gems from late Readings." Jerome family material consists of a poem written for a relative in 1848 and information about both Gilbert and Jerome family members as recorded in the pages of a Bible between circa 1824-1939. The collection also includes a photograph of Elizabeth Maude Jerome, possibly from the 1920s, and two photograph albums dating from the 1860s to about 1900 that contain images of members of the Gilbert and Jerome families and carte-de-visite photographs of well-known individuals, including United States presidents and generals and American and English authors. This collection is organized into six series: |