Flat box MSS 044 Box 02

The Ethel Berner Babbitt Collection consists of materials related to the life of Emerson College alumna Ethel Berner Babbitt, including schoolbooks, photograph albums, scrapbooks, manuscripts, and written personal correspondence.

This series consists of five hardbound books containing plays by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), annotated by Berner during her studies at the Emerson College of Oratory. Books are from the New Rolfe Shakespeare series edited by William J. Rolfe and published by the American Book Company from 1903 to 1911.

This series consists of a World War I scrapbook of news clippings constructed while Ethel Berner Babbitt was a student at Emerson, as well as a photograph album created for her sorority reunion in 1952.

This series contains letters and objects Babbitt saved from her personal correspondence from acquaintances "Helen H." and former Emerson classmate Ethel May Duncan. While the majority of the documents were handwritten letters encased in the original postmarked envelopes, additional non-textual materials sometimes accompanied the letters, and have been divided into their own subseries.

This series consists of five hardbound books containing plays by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), annotated by Berner during her studies at the Emerson College of Oratory. Books are from the New Rolfe Shakespeare series edited by William J. Rolfe and published by the American Book Company from 1903 to 1911.

This series consists of five hardbound books containing plays by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), annotated by Berner during her studies at the Emerson College of Oratory. Books are from the New Rolfe Shakespeare series edited by William J. Rolfe and published by the American Book Company from 1903 to 1911.

This series consists of five hardbound books containing plays by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), annotated by Berner during her studies at the Emerson College of Oratory. Books are from the New Rolfe Shakespeare series edited by William J. Rolfe and published by the American Book Company from 1903 to 1911.

This series consists of five hardbound books containing plays by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), annotated by Berner during her studies at the Emerson College of Oratory. Books are from the New Rolfe Shakespeare series edited by William J. Rolfe and published by the American Book Company from 1903 to 1911.

This series consists of five hardbound books containing plays by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), annotated by Berner during her studies at the Emerson College of Oratory. Books are from the New Rolfe Shakespeare series edited by William J. Rolfe and published by the American Book Company from 1903 to 1911.

The Liberty War Scrap Book is a hardbound canvas book containing newspaper clippings adhered to or loosely pressed between the pages. Content deals exclusively with the events of World War I beginning in January 1918.

This subseries includes several dozen photographic negatives which were created in 1935 and 1936 in Nashua, New Hampshire as well as other unknown locations. It also contains dried wildflowers Ethel M. Duncan collected during a trip to Switzerland and a piece of paper indicating where the flowers originated.

Two paper packets containing a few dozen photographic negatives processed by Fred W. Perkins photo store in Nashua, New Hampshire. Babbitt labeled each with approximate dates: July 1935, October 1935, March 1936, and April 1936; some of the later photographs depict a flood.