Ruth Day Caldwell Collection

Collection

Identifier: FMS-167

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The scrapbooks include photographs, programs, and ephemera about Earlham College 1918-1922. Also included are other photographs before and after Earlham.

Dates

1918-1962
Other: Majority of material found in 1918-1922
Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1992

Conditions Governing Access

Unrestricted

Biographical or Historical Information

Ruth Perisho Day (1898-1981) was a native of Hamilton County, Indiana. She graduated from Earlham College in 1922, and in 1923 married Clyde T. Caldwell (1897-1984), a fellow Earlham alumnus. After he obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois, they resided in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he was a research scientist for the Upjohn Company. Ruth Caldwell was an active clubwoman, especially in the American Association of University Women, and a weaver.

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