Delia May Mattison papers : letters, diary, photographs, and other papers, ca. 1860s-1940s.

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Delia May Mattison papers : letters, diary, photographs, and other papers, ca. 1860s-1940s.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40060146

The papers contain family correspondence; greeting cards; a diary by Mary Amelia Pengra of Green County, Wisconsin, documenting her life on a farm from 1873-1874 and 1881; handwritten poem; Civil War discharge certificate, 1865; marriage and teaching licenses; school records and diplomas; a commencement program; childhood biography book; travelogue; two family picture albums; tintypes; publications; and genealogy material and other papers pertaining to the Pengra, Fessenden, and Mattison families of Wisconsin. The collection also contains Delia May Mattison's World War II memoir describing her experiences while working at Douglas Aircraft in California.

University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7418711

University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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Pengra family

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Mattison family

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University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

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Fessenden family

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Mattison, Delia May.

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Delia May Mattison, the daughter of William Norman and Mary Fessenden Mattison, was born on April 25, 1913 in Clyde, Kansas. By 1914, her family moved to Prairie Grove, Arkansas, where Mattison finished her primary and secondary education in 1930. She proceeded to study at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Arkansas, and graduated with Bachelor's Degree in Education in 1937. While teaching high school English in Decatur and Springdale, Arkansas, she had applied to study at library schoo...