Margaret Clapp papers
Collection
Identifier: 1DD8-Clapp
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of the papers of Margaret Clapp (1910-1974), who was an alumna of the Class of 1930 and the eighth President of Wellesley College (1949-1966), dating from 1924 to 1974. Collection was compiled from President's Office files, Information Services biographical files and files of publications, and personal papers on Clapp's work, writings and travel donated by Lois Olds (Clapp's sister) and others. Consists of articles, catalogues, clippings, constitution, correspondence, degrees, itineraries, notebooks, photographs, recommendations, record book, research notes, training manual; covering Lady Doak College (Madurai, India), the United States Information Service (USIS), talks given by Margaret Clapp to Alumnae Groups, Wellesley College audiences (including Chapel Talks), and at other schools and universities, and research notes on the New Deal.
Dates
- 1930-1976
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. To make an appointment to view materials, please contact the Archives staff by email at archives@wellesley.edu or by phone at (781) 283-3745.
Conditions Governing Use
The Wellesley College Archives welcomes researchers to use materials in the public domain, to make fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law, and to request permission to use works whose copyright is held by Wellesley College. All materials from the Archives, regardless of copyright status, should be attributed to the Wellesley College Archives, Library and Technology Services when cited, quoted, or reproduced.
Biographical / Historical
Margaret Clapp was born on April 11, 1910 in New Jersey, and passed away at 64 of cancer on May 3, 1974. She was a member of the Wellesley College Class of 1930, and was the President of College Government as a senior. After graduating, she taught at the Todhunter School and Dalton School in New York, the City College, the New Jersey College for Women, the Columbia University General Sessions. From 1947 to 1949 she was an assistant professor of history at Brooklyn College. She earned her Master’s degree from Columbia University in 1937, and received her Doctor of Philosophy degree in American History from Columbia University in 1946. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her first published work in 1948, the biography “Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow.”
[Information from: Lindhem, Burton. "Margaret Clapp, 64, Dies; Wellesley Ex-President." The New York Times, May 4, 1974. URL: https://nyti.ms/3exuiVE.]
[Information from: Lindhem, Burton. "Margaret Clapp, 64, Dies; Wellesley Ex-President." The New York Times, May 4, 1974. URL: https://nyti.ms/3exuiVE.]
Extent
3.6 Linear Feet (9 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
1DD8 is an artificial collection. Artificial collections are created by Archivists bringing together multiple smaller acquisitions to the archives from multiple creators, and organizing them based on their subject. This is unlike most archival collections which are organized by provenance, meaning by the original creator, and which maintain the original creator’s arrangement of the collection. Collection was compiled by an Archivist from President's Office files, Information Services biographical files and files of publications, and personal papers on Clapp's work, writings and travel donated by Lois Olds (Clapp's sister) and others. Collection has been arranged alphabetically by subject, and chronologically within subject, with research notes and honorary degrees following.
Creator
- Title
- Clapp, Margaret Antoinette, 1910-1974. Margaret Clapp papers, 1930-1976: a container list
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Wellesley College Archives Repository