Hilda Truslow Berry Sanford scrapbook and broadside, 1929-1965, 1929-1944 (bulk).

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Hilda Truslow Berry Sanford scrapbook and broadside, 1929-1965, 1929-1944 (bulk).

Scrapbook (1929-44) compiled by the former Miss Berry includes letters and telegrams from her father, Romeyn Berry, and from school friends, as well as family snapshots, playbills, Cornell Dramatic Club and Bailey Hall concert programs, postcards, guide books, and miscellaneous printed items, mainly concerning her school days at Ithaca High School, Kent Place School, and Barnard College, and her service in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Also, a broadside used during Sanford's successful campaign for Council Representative, Hamden Connecticut (1965).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7910657

Cornell University Library

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