Fanny & Cordelia’s Book |
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The inspiration for Fanny and Cordelia’s Book was a flea market find, a leather-bound autograph book titled Mount Holyoke Seminary Class of 1861. Research indicates it first belonged to Fanny King and then to her niece, Cordelia Kemp. They collected friends’ photographs and autographs from 1861, when Fanny and her sister, Mary (Cordelia’s mother), of Morristown, NJ, were students at Mount Holyoke, until 1934 when Cordelia died in Talbot Co., Maryland.
The metal accordion book has five pages, front and back. The front side, Fanny’s Chums, includes memorabilia of friends and family from Mount Holyoke, Long Branch and Morristown, N.J. and Havana, Cuba. (one friend, Jose Barbarrosa, was Marti’s personal physician). A view of MHS teacher Mary Ellis’s room is inset above a removable locket containing her photos. The back, Cordelia’s Family and Friends, includes a 1933 photo of Cordelia’s daughter’s wedding anniversary celebration with her family.
Note: I believe the trio of locket-size photos shows Cordelia, the keeper of the book until her death, at the top of the three.
The metal accordion book has five pages, front and back. The front side, Fanny’s Chums, includes memorabilia of friends and family from Mount Holyoke, Long Branch and Morristown, N.J. and Havana, Cuba. (one friend, Jose Barbarrosa, was Marti’s personal physician). A view of MHS teacher Mary Ellis’s room is inset above a removable locket containing her photos. The back, Cordelia’s Family and Friends, includes a 1933 photo of Cordelia’s daughter’s wedding anniversary celebration with her family.
Note: I believe the trio of locket-size photos shows Cordelia, the keeper of the book until her death, at the top of the three.