Title:
Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Eighth Memory Book, 1927-1934
Collection:
LSC DAR
Associated Material:
This scrapbook is part of the Louisa St. Clair Chapter, DAR Scrapbook Collection. This collection is owned by the Louisa St. Clair Chapter, DAR, and is housed at their climate-controlled storage unit in Grosse Pointe, MI.
Scope & Content:
Index for Eighth Memory Book, 1927-1934:
Daughters of the American Revolution
Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Detroit, Michigan
Organized January 19, 1893
Indexed by Emily O’Brien Whitesides, Public HistorianGrosse Pointe Historical SocietyAugust 2018
001 Cover, Post-bound, Leather-textured cardboard with embossed scrollwork detailing and windmill, gold-tone title “Scrapbook”.
002 Typed label, “Presented by Mrs. Lloyd DeWitt Smith”;
Copy of photograph of Calvin Coolidge with inscription “To Ray Long[?] with Regards Calvin Coolidge”.
003 Printed photograph of Mrs. Henry Bourne Joy.
004 Clipping, no source, no date, “Daughters of American Revolution, The Annual State
Conference at Adrian” by Grace Elinor Riddle, Director of Social Department, Louisa St. Clair Chapter, DAR.
005 Handwritten
note, “Presented May 18, 1950. 8 Memory Booke[sic] D.A.R. 1927-1934, Mrs. Lloyd DeWitt Smith”, paper clipped to support;
Clippings, no source, June 29, 1927 regarding President Calvin Coolidge Speaking to DAR with photo;
Conference materials, card printed with silhouette of Louisa St. Clair, with handwritten note “presented by Mrs. Lloyd DeWitt Smith, 1927-8”, tied with red, white, and blue ribbon at top.
006 Clippings, no source, no date, regarding meetings of Louisa St. Clair Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution;
Clipping, no source, no date, “New Vice-President of Women Writers” with photo of Mrs. Fred L. Vandeveer.
007A Tract, 1929, “James Monroe, Address of Hon. R. Walton Moore of Virginia, delivered at Fredericksburg, VA, April 28, 1928”.
007B Clipping, no source, no date, “Our Candidate for Vice-President General” by Mattie Woodbridge (Charles Horton) Metcalf, regarding Mrs. Henry B. Joy.
008 Clipping, no source, no date, poem “The Daughter of the American Revolution” by Gracie Brainerd Krum, Historian of Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, continued on 009.
009 Clipping, no source, no date, poem “The Daughter of the American Revolution” by Gracie Brainerd Krum, Historian of Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, continued from 008.
010 Clipping, no source, no date, “Newly Elected Officers and Newly Appointed Committees” of Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, with photo of Miss Harriet E. Raymond.
011 Clipping, no source, no date, “Our New Honorary Regent of Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Mrs. Arthur Maxwell Parker,” by Mattie Woodbridge (Charles Horton) Metcalf, with portraits of James Pitts and Elizabeth Boudoin Pitts (continued on 012).
012 Clipping, no source, no date, “Our New Honorary Regent of Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Mrs. Arthur Maxwell Parker,” by Mattie Woodbridge (Charles Horton) Metcalf, with portraits of James Pitts and Elizabeth Boudoin Pitts (continued from 011);
Clipping, advertisement for “The Little Shop of the DAR, Louisa St. Clair Chapter”.
013 Clipping, Michigan Women, April 1927, regarding patriotic relief of Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, written by Mrs. Lloyd DeWitt Smith with photos of Mrs. Lloyd DeWitt Smith and Mrs. Duncan Steward.
014 Clipping, no source, 1927 regarding Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Daughter of the American Revolution’s Patriotic Relief Department sewing for soldiers’ children by Mabel E. (Lloyd DeWitt) Smith (continued on 015).
015 Clipping, no source, 1927 regarding Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Daughter of the American Revolution’s Patriotic Relief Department sewing for soldiers’ children by Mabel E. (Lloyd DeWitt) Smith (continued from 014).
016 Clipping, no source, no date, “Who was Louisa St. Clair?” by Lena Harris (Wirt Payson) Doty, with photograph of Chief Thayendanega (Joseph Brandt). (continued on 017).
017 Clipping, no source, no date, “Who was Louisa St. Clair?” by Lena Harris (Wirt Payson) Doty, with photograph of Chief Thayendanega (Joseph Brandt). (continued from 016);
clipping, no source, no date, regarding American Legion parade in Paris;
clipping, no source, no date, 1930 aerial photo of Washington Cathedral under construction.
018 Clipping, no source, 1927, “Historic Landmarks of Detroit---The Old French Pear Tree” by Nola S. (Edward H.) Eichelzer, Chairman of Historic Landmarks and Research, Louisa St. Clair Chapter (continued on 019).
019 Clipping, no source, 1927, “Historic Landmarks of Detroit---The Old French Pear Tree” by Nola S. (Edward H.) Eichelzer, Chairman of Historic Landmarks and Research, Louisa St. Clair Chapter (continued on from 018).
[ARCHIVIST NOTE: this indexing effort was stopped during Phase 1 of the LSC DAR Digitization Project, and the Chapter decided to use a less-detailed indexing protocol going forward to increase the amount of work that could be completed within the allocated budget; this explains the shift in the detail of the index of this book beyond this point]
020 Clipping re: History of the Daughters of the American Revolution
021 Clipping re: History of the Daughters of the American Revolution (cont. from previous)
022 Clipping re: History of the Daughters of the American Revolution (cont. from previous)
023 Clipping re: History of the Daughters of the American Revolution (cont. from previous)
024 Clipping re: History of the Daughters of the American Revolution (cont. from previous)
025 Clipping re: History of the Daughters of the American Revolution (cont. from previous)
026 Clippings, no source, no date, re: Louisa St. Clair Chapter activities; invitation to Chapter tea.
027A post card; Christ Church program; clippings re: Louisa St. Clair Chapter activities.
027B Clippings re: Louisa St. Clair Chapter activities with photos of Mrs. H. C. Collinges and Mrs. Ralph E. Wisner.
028 Clippings, June 1927, re: Flag Day.
029 Clippings re: 1932 planting of Memorial Elms, with photos of Mrs. Henry B. Joy and Mrs. Harry C. Thatcher; clipping re: President Coolidge addressing Continental Congress, with photo.
030 Clipping, “Emma A. Fox, Parliamentarian,” with photo of Mrs. Fox.
031 Clipping, “Emma A. Fox, Parliamentarian,” with photos of Mrs. Fox as a young woman (cont. from previous); photo clipping, Shakespeare Study Club; photo clipping, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge; photo, Patriotic Relief Committee.
032 Clipping, “The Site Where the First United States Flag Was Raised in Detroit,” with photos.
033A Program for musicale, Oct 21.
033B Clipping, “The Site Where the First United States Flag Was Raised in Detroit,” with photos (cont. from previous); clipping re: Ezra Parker Chapter DAR, with photo of Mrs. S. Howard Smith.
034 Clipping, “The Social Side of Our Twenty-seventh State Conference at Albion,” with photo of Mrs. James H. McDonald and her granddaughter.
035 Clipping, “The Social Side of Our Twenty-seventh State Conference at Albion,” (cont. from previous); photo clippings of Mrs. Henry Bourne Joy and Mrs. Winthrop Fuller Victor.
036 Clipping, 1928, re: 36th Birthday of Louisa St. Clair Chapter; clipping “A Historical Pilgrimage”.
037 Clipping, “A Historical Pilgrimage,” (cont. from previous).
038 Clipping, “A Historical Pilgrimage,” (cont. from previous); clipping “Our Colonial Elms”.
039 Clipping, Washington Post, April 22, 1928, political cartoon of Pacifist Mother vs DAR Mother.
040 Clippings re: DAR Blacklist.
041 Clipping, The Literary Digest, April 21, 1928, “The End of British Rubber Control.”
042 Clippings re: DAR Blacklist.
043 Photo clipping of Nellie Tayloe Ross, First Woman Governor of an American Commonwealth.
044 Clipping, “Honorable Nellie Tayloe Ross (cont. from previous).
045 Clippings re: Mrs. Henry B. Joy’s National Society Vice President nomination; clippings re: President Calvin Coolidge.
046 Clippings re: 37th Continental Congress; clipping with photo of Mrs. Lloyd Dewitt Smith.
047 Clippings re: DAR Blacklist.
048 Clippings re: DAR Blacklist.
049A Annual Report of the National Defense Committee, 1927-1928.
049B Clipping re: Committees of Louisa St. Clair Chapter DAR.
050 Clipping re: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
051A Annual Report of the National Defense Committee, 1927-1928.
051B Clipping re: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, with photo (cont. from previous); clipping, “Armistice Day Proclamation”.
052 Program for event given by Chicago Chapter DAR, March 20, 1924.
053A Printed address of Mrs. William Sherman Walker given at Ohio DAR State Conference, March 16, 1927.
053B Photo clipping, President Calvin Coolidge with DAR deligates.
054 Photo clipping, Opening of 37th Continental Congress with President Calvin Coolidge.
055 Photo clipping, Opening of 37th Continental Congress with President Calvin Coolidge (cont. from previous).
056 Photo clippings from 37th Continental Congress.
057A Photo clipping, Mrs. Daniel Manning.
057B Photo clipping, The Club Woman, May 1927, “Month of Mothers” with portrait of Mary Bell Washington, mother of George Washington.
058 Back Cover.
Daughters of the American Revolution
Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Detroit, Michigan
Organized January 19, 1893
Indexed by Emily O’Brien Whitesides, Public HistorianGrosse Pointe Historical SocietyAugust 2018
001 Cover, Post-bound, Leather-textured cardboard with embossed scrollwork detailing and windmill, gold-tone title “Scrapbook”.
002 Typed label, “Presented by Mrs. Lloyd DeWitt Smith”;
Copy of photograph of Calvin Coolidge with inscription “To Ray Long[?] with Regards Calvin Coolidge”.
003 Printed photograph of Mrs. Henry Bourne Joy.
004 Clipping, no source, no date, “Daughters of American Revolution, The Annual State
Conference at Adrian” by Grace Elinor Riddle, Director of Social Department, Louisa St. Clair Chapter, DAR.
005 Handwritten
note, “Presented May 18, 1950. 8 Memory Booke[sic] D.A.R. 1927-1934, Mrs. Lloyd DeWitt Smith”, paper clipped to support;
Clippings, no source, June 29, 1927 regarding President Calvin Coolidge Speaking to DAR with photo;
Conference materials, card printed with silhouette of Louisa St. Clair, with handwritten note “presented by Mrs. Lloyd DeWitt Smith, 1927-8”, tied with red, white, and blue ribbon at top.
006 Clippings, no source, no date, regarding meetings of Louisa St. Clair Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution;
Clipping, no source, no date, “New Vice-President of Women Writers” with photo of Mrs. Fred L. Vandeveer.
007A Tract, 1929, “James Monroe, Address of Hon. R. Walton Moore of Virginia, delivered at Fredericksburg, VA, April 28, 1928”.
007B Clipping, no source, no date, “Our Candidate for Vice-President General” by Mattie Woodbridge (Charles Horton) Metcalf, regarding Mrs. Henry B. Joy.
008 Clipping, no source, no date, poem “The Daughter of the American Revolution” by Gracie Brainerd Krum, Historian of Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, continued on 009.
009 Clipping, no source, no date, poem “The Daughter of the American Revolution” by Gracie Brainerd Krum, Historian of Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, continued from 008.
010 Clipping, no source, no date, “Newly Elected Officers and Newly Appointed Committees” of Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, with photo of Miss Harriet E. Raymond.
011 Clipping, no source, no date, “Our New Honorary Regent of Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Mrs. Arthur Maxwell Parker,” by Mattie Woodbridge (Charles Horton) Metcalf, with portraits of James Pitts and Elizabeth Boudoin Pitts (continued on 012).
012 Clipping, no source, no date, “Our New Honorary Regent of Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Mrs. Arthur Maxwell Parker,” by Mattie Woodbridge (Charles Horton) Metcalf, with portraits of James Pitts and Elizabeth Boudoin Pitts (continued from 011);
Clipping, advertisement for “The Little Shop of the DAR, Louisa St. Clair Chapter”.
013 Clipping, Michigan Women, April 1927, regarding patriotic relief of Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, written by Mrs. Lloyd DeWitt Smith with photos of Mrs. Lloyd DeWitt Smith and Mrs. Duncan Steward.
014 Clipping, no source, 1927 regarding Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Daughter of the American Revolution’s Patriotic Relief Department sewing for soldiers’ children by Mabel E. (Lloyd DeWitt) Smith (continued on 015).
015 Clipping, no source, 1927 regarding Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Daughter of the American Revolution’s Patriotic Relief Department sewing for soldiers’ children by Mabel E. (Lloyd DeWitt) Smith (continued from 014).
016 Clipping, no source, no date, “Who was Louisa St. Clair?” by Lena Harris (Wirt Payson) Doty, with photograph of Chief Thayendanega (Joseph Brandt). (continued on 017).
017 Clipping, no source, no date, “Who was Louisa St. Clair?” by Lena Harris (Wirt Payson) Doty, with photograph of Chief Thayendanega (Joseph Brandt). (continued from 016);
clipping, no source, no date, regarding American Legion parade in Paris;
clipping, no source, no date, 1930 aerial photo of Washington Cathedral under construction.
018 Clipping, no source, 1927, “Historic Landmarks of Detroit---The Old French Pear Tree” by Nola S. (Edward H.) Eichelzer, Chairman of Historic Landmarks and Research, Louisa St. Clair Chapter (continued on 019).
019 Clipping, no source, 1927, “Historic Landmarks of Detroit---The Old French Pear Tree” by Nola S. (Edward H.) Eichelzer, Chairman of Historic Landmarks and Research, Louisa St. Clair Chapter (continued on from 018).
[ARCHIVIST NOTE: this indexing effort was stopped during Phase 1 of the LSC DAR Digitization Project, and the Chapter decided to use a less-detailed indexing protocol going forward to increase the amount of work that could be completed within the allocated budget; this explains the shift in the detail of the index of this book beyond this point]
020 Clipping re: History of the Daughters of the American Revolution
021 Clipping re: History of the Daughters of the American Revolution (cont. from previous)
022 Clipping re: History of the Daughters of the American Revolution (cont. from previous)
023 Clipping re: History of the Daughters of the American Revolution (cont. from previous)
024 Clipping re: History of the Daughters of the American Revolution (cont. from previous)
025 Clipping re: History of the Daughters of the American Revolution (cont. from previous)
026 Clippings, no source, no date, re: Louisa St. Clair Chapter activities; invitation to Chapter tea.
027A post card; Christ Church program; clippings re: Louisa St. Clair Chapter activities.
027B Clippings re: Louisa St. Clair Chapter activities with photos of Mrs. H. C. Collinges and Mrs. Ralph E. Wisner.
028 Clippings, June 1927, re: Flag Day.
029 Clippings re: 1932 planting of Memorial Elms, with photos of Mrs. Henry B. Joy and Mrs. Harry C. Thatcher; clipping re: President Coolidge addressing Continental Congress, with photo.
030 Clipping, “Emma A. Fox, Parliamentarian,” with photo of Mrs. Fox.
031 Clipping, “Emma A. Fox, Parliamentarian,” with photos of Mrs. Fox as a young woman (cont. from previous); photo clipping, Shakespeare Study Club; photo clipping, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge; photo, Patriotic Relief Committee.
032 Clipping, “The Site Where the First United States Flag Was Raised in Detroit,” with photos.
033A Program for musicale, Oct 21.
033B Clipping, “The Site Where the First United States Flag Was Raised in Detroit,” with photos (cont. from previous); clipping re: Ezra Parker Chapter DAR, with photo of Mrs. S. Howard Smith.
034 Clipping, “The Social Side of Our Twenty-seventh State Conference at Albion,” with photo of Mrs. James H. McDonald and her granddaughter.
035 Clipping, “The Social Side of Our Twenty-seventh State Conference at Albion,” (cont. from previous); photo clippings of Mrs. Henry Bourne Joy and Mrs. Winthrop Fuller Victor.
036 Clipping, 1928, re: 36th Birthday of Louisa St. Clair Chapter; clipping “A Historical Pilgrimage”.
037 Clipping, “A Historical Pilgrimage,” (cont. from previous).
038 Clipping, “A Historical Pilgrimage,” (cont. from previous); clipping “Our Colonial Elms”.
039 Clipping, Washington Post, April 22, 1928, political cartoon of Pacifist Mother vs DAR Mother.
040 Clippings re: DAR Blacklist.
041 Clipping, The Literary Digest, April 21, 1928, “The End of British Rubber Control.”
042 Clippings re: DAR Blacklist.
043 Photo clipping of Nellie Tayloe Ross, First Woman Governor of an American Commonwealth.
044 Clipping, “Honorable Nellie Tayloe Ross (cont. from previous).
045 Clippings re: Mrs. Henry B. Joy’s National Society Vice President nomination; clippings re: President Calvin Coolidge.
046 Clippings re: 37th Continental Congress; clipping with photo of Mrs. Lloyd Dewitt Smith.
047 Clippings re: DAR Blacklist.
048 Clippings re: DAR Blacklist.
049A Annual Report of the National Defense Committee, 1927-1928.
049B Clipping re: Committees of Louisa St. Clair Chapter DAR.
050 Clipping re: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
051A Annual Report of the National Defense Committee, 1927-1928.
051B Clipping re: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, with photo (cont. from previous); clipping, “Armistice Day Proclamation”.
052 Program for event given by Chicago Chapter DAR, March 20, 1924.
053A Printed address of Mrs. William Sherman Walker given at Ohio DAR State Conference, March 16, 1927.
053B Photo clipping, President Calvin Coolidge with DAR deligates.
054 Photo clipping, Opening of 37th Continental Congress with President Calvin Coolidge.
055 Photo clipping, Opening of 37th Continental Congress with President Calvin Coolidge (cont. from previous).
056 Photo clippings from 37th Continental Congress.
057A Photo clipping, Mrs. Daniel Manning.
057B Photo clipping, The Club Woman, May 1927, “Month of Mothers” with portrait of Mary Bell Washington, mother of George Washington.
058 Back Cover.
Copyrights:
Grosse Pointe Historical Society and its patrons have no rights to use or reproduce items owned by the Louisa St. Clair Chapter DAR without written consent of the Executive Committee of the Chapter. Use and reproduction fees may apply.
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