Kenneth and Alice Day papers, 1891-2006; bulk: 1943-1945.

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Kenneth and Alice Day papers, 1891-2006; bulk: 1943-1945.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191886931

The collection consists of personal papers, official papers, photographs, and postcards relating to the Days' life in the Philippines, Thetford, Vermont, and Orford, New Hampshire. It spans the years from 1891 to 2006, but concentrates on the period surrounding World War II. The collection covers disparate facets and time periods of the Days' family life and activities, and is arranged in two series. The first series concerns their life in the Philippines and the second, their life stateside. Series I contains the centerpiece of the collection, the 1948 War Damages Claim the Days made to the U.S. government for possessions lost in the war. This document provides a vivid portrait of the couple's life in Manila through biographical narrative, detailed inventories, photographs, floor plans of their residences, and a glimpse of wartime in the Manila area. Also included in this series are materials relating to the final days of war in the Philippines, such as official documents from the landing of General Douglas MacArthur and the installation of the post-war government. There are also two folders of photographs, probably taken by Alice W. Day in the 1940s or 1950s, of Philippine natives and of a shrine in Japan. Of particular interest in this series is a short paper, "Dean C. Worcester: The Family Inheritance" written by Rodney Sullivan, an Australian history professor, in 1984 as a prelude to his full-length book, Exemplar of Americanism: The Philippine Career of Dean C. Worcester which was published in Australia in 1991. Series II contains a group of postcards, ca. 1910-1915, received by neighbors of the Worcesters in Thetford, Vermont, as well as some photographs relating to the life of Alice's mother, Marion Fay Leas Worcester, and her Bennett relatives around 1890-1900. Of particular interest is a group of black and white photographs showing the interior of the Days' residence in Orford, New Hampshire, made by Clara Estelle Sipprell (1885-1975). Ms. Sipprell was a well-known New York pictorialist photographer who maintained a summer studio in Thetford, Vermont, from 1920 to 1937, when she relocated it to Manchester, Vermont.

.5 linear feet.

Vermont Historical Society

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Day, Kenneth B., 1889-1955.

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Kenneth Bertram Day was born on March 5, 1889, in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the youngest of five children of William F. and Lydia W. Day. Kenneth, whose father was a prosperous rope manufacturer in Boston, was educated at Harvard and New York University. In 1915 he moved to the Philippines, presumably in connection with his work. In 1917 he married Alice Worcester. Kenneth and Alice had three daughters, Anne Worcester Day (1919-2001), Agnes Elizabeth Day, (1923-ca 1945), and Sarah "Sa...

Sipprell, Clara E. (Clara Estelle), 1885-1975

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American photographer. From the description of The Clara Sipprell collection. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 122333128 Photographer. From the description of Clara E. Sipprell papers, 1914-1975. (Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Research Library). WorldCat record id: 122349006 Clara E. Sipprell (1885-1975) was a Canadian-American photographer, known for her landscapes and for portraits of famous actors, artists, writers and scienti...

Sullivan, Rodney J.

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Worcester, Dean C. (Dean Conant), 1866-1924

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Professor of Zoology of University of Michigan, member of the Philippine Commission, 1899-1913. From the description of Dean C. Worcester papers, 1887-1925. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423607 Professor of zoology at the University of Michigan and member of the U.S. Philippine Commission, 1899-1913. From the description of Photographs of the Philippine Islands [photographs]. 1890-1907. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68180329 ...

Day, Alice W., 1896-1979.

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