mshm085 Ferguson papers, 1881-1952. Finding Aid Encoding funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections

South Hadley, MA

Finding aid generated in MARC format from database, then encoded using Perl scripts and XSL stylesheet. 2004-04-06 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 mshm085 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Ferguson papers, 1881-1952. Finding Aid MS 0628 Encoding funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview Ferguson, Elizabeth Tuttle, 1861-1952. Ferguson papers 1881-1952. MS 0628 LD 7096.6 1884 Tuttle 1 box (5 linear in.) Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections

South Hadley, MA

Ferguson, Elizabeth Eudora Tuttle 1861-1952. Student and housewife, Mount Holyoke College Graduate 1884 Papers consist of correspondence, compositions, photo and post card albums, memorabilia, newspaper clippings and photographs. Principally documenting her academic work for an English class and her travels in the Caribbean specifically through photographs of the islands of St. Vincent and Martinique after the eruption of Mount Pelee in 1902. English. Biographical Note

Elizabeth Eudora Tuttle was born in Vermont on September 8, 1861. She was living in Holyoke, Massachusetts by 1878 and attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1878/79, 1880/81, 1881/82, and 1883/84, graduating in 1884. She married Robert Muir Ferguson in 1885 and had three children. The Fergusons lived in Springfield, Massachusetts, Spokane, Washington, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her husband died in 1907 and she died in Tulsa during the summer of 1952 at the age of ninety.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Elizabeth Eudora Tuttle Ferguson Papers consist of correspondence, compositions, photo and post card albums, memorabilia, newspaper clippings and photographs. The collection documents the academic work produced by Ferguson in a first-year English course and her travels in the Caribbean and to a lesser extent France, Austria and Russia. Of particular note are two photograph albums compiled by Edmund Otis Hovey and an album of postcards. The Hovey albums chiefly contain photographs taken on the islands of St. Vincent and Martinique after the eruption of Mount Pelee in 1902 and subsequent volcanic activity in 1903. They also contain four photographs of volcanic activity in Guadeloupe and St. Kitts, five photographs of people and scenery in France, a photograph labeled "Russian transportation" (horse-drawn wagon), and one labeled "King Edward visits Vienna," all dating from 1903. Also included in the collection are an album of post cards that reflect Ferguson's travels in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington D.C., Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Michigan, Indiana, and visits to Niagara Falls and the International Exposition in Chicago in 1934. The correspondence consists primarily of letters and cards to and from staff members of the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association. The collection also includes some clippings about Ferguson, and several photographs of her taken between 1884 and 1934.

Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into six series:

Correspondence Compositions Albums Memorabilia Biographical Material Photographs Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

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Elizabeth Tuttle Ferguson Papers, Mount Holyoke College, Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, Massachusetts

Search Terms Mount Holyoke Female Seminary - Curricula. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary - Students. Hovey, Edmund O. (Edmund Otis), 1801-1877. Alumnae Association of Mount Holyoke College. College students - Massachusetts. Women college students - Massachusetts. Creative writing. Voyages and travels. Volcanoes - West Indies. Women - Education - United States - History - Sources. English language - Study and teaching (Higher) - Massachusetts - South Hadley. Pelee, Mount (Martinique) - Eruption, 1902. Martinique - Description and travel. Guadeloupe - Description and travel. Saint Vincent -Description and travel. United States - Description and travel. aFrance - Description and travel - 1800-1918. Mount Holyoke College - Student papers - 1881-1884 Albums Photograph albums Photographs Postcard albums Postcards Contents List Correspondence, 1920-1952 1 folder

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This series consists of brief letters and birthday cards. Correspondents include John Ferguson, the Clement sisters (Clara, Florence, and Louise), Mrs. M.W. Raymond, Mary A.E. Avery, and the Alumnae Association. Letters concern alumnae duties, family deaths, and Ferguson's health.

1 1 Correspondence, 1920-1952 Compositions, 1881-1884 2 folders

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This series consists of twelve compositions written as a student at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. The composition titles and dates are: "Our Third Room-mate," January 26, 1884; "Devil's Lake," April 19, 1884; "Dr. John," January 12, 1884; "Dr. John," December 15, 1883; "Our Foreign guests," May 6, 1882; "A Good Orator," Nov.3, 1883, "Fire," Mar. 25, 1882; "Shakespeare," October 13, 1883; "Henry W. Longfellow," April 22, 1882; "The Kind Uncle," December 10, 1881; "The Chinese Students," February 4, 1882; and "The Year Just Finished," January 21, 1882.

1 2 Compositions, 1881-1882 1 3 Compositions, 1883-1884 Albums, 1902-1934 3 folders

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This series contains two photograph albums compiled by Edmund Otis Hovey and an album of postcards. The Hovey albums chiefly contain photographs taken on the islands of St. Vincent and Martinique after the eruption of Mount Pele in 1902 and subsequent volcanic activity in 1903. They also contain four photographs of volcanic activity in Guadeloupe and St. Kitts, five photographs of people and scenery in France, a photograph labeled "Russian Transportation" (horse-drawn wagon), and one labeled "King Edward Visits Vienna," all dating from 1903. Most of the postcards reflect Ferguson's travels in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington D.C., Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Michigan, Indiana, and visits to Niagra Falls and the International Exposition in Chicago in 1934.

1 4 Albums, 1902 1 5 Albums, 1902-1903 1 6 Albums, 1906, 1911, 1934 Memorabilia, 1884, circa 1934 1 folder

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This series consists of Ferguson's Mount Holyoke diploma, a graduation pin for the class of 1884 at Mount Holyoke, and a silver painted woven palm fan probably used for the Class Reunion in 1934.

Folio 6 Diploma, 1884 OBJ 0002 7 Graduation Pin, 1884 OBJ 0003 8 Fan, circa 1934 Biographical Information, 1902-1952 1 folder

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This series chiefly consists of biographical forms that Ferguson returned to the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association between 1914-1946. This series also includes a form pledging financial support to the Association, 1902, copies of notes about Ferguson from issues of the "Mount Hoyoke Alumnae Quarterly," 1918-1952, and an article about her from a Tulsa, Oklahoma newspaper, 1941.

1 10 Biographical Information, 1902-1952 Photographs, circa 1884, 1890, 1934 1 folder

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This series consists of two formal portraits of Ferguson, probably taken just before her graduation from Mount holyoke Female Seminary in 1884. Two snapshots are also included one labelled "Massachusetts 1890" showing Ferguson and other women in a horse-drawn buggy, and the other a snapshot of Ferguson with classmates and their husbands at the fifteenth reunion of the Class of 1884 at Mount Holyoke College, 1934.

1 11 Photographs, 1884, 1890, 1934