Daphne Winslow Merrill Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: SpC MS 1608

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

A scrapbook compiled by Daphne Winslow while a student at the University of Maine. It includes signatures and comments of class members as well as programs, photographs and memorabilia of campus activities and student life. Of interest within the scrapbook are items documenting residents of Balentine Hall, a campus dormitory, as well as materials concerning Winslow's membership in Phi Mu, All Maine Women and other campus organizations.

Dates

Creation: 1921-1927

Restrictions on Access

Kept at Fogler Library's offsite storage facility. One week's notice required for retrieval.

Use Restrictions

Information on literary rights available in the Library.

Biographical Note

Daphne Winslow Merrill, the daughter of Wilder C. Winslow and Grace Lothrop Winslow, was born in Rockland, Maine, on March 4, 1904. She attended the University of Maine, the University of New Hampshire and Middlebury College. She was a teacher for over 50 years in various secondary schools and retired as an associate professor of English at the University of Maine. She was also an author and poet. She died on April 8, 1998.