ContentsScope and Contents of the Collection
Correspondence from father Sept. 1925 to June 1926 Correspondence from mother Sept. & Oct. 1925 Correspondence from mother November 1925 Correspondence from mother Dec. 1925 Correspondence from mother Jan 1926 Correspondence from mother Feb. & March 1926 Correspondence from mother April, May, June & July 1926 Correspondence to family Dec. 1925 to Aug. 1926 French Group Association correspondence 1927-1928 Correspondence - miscellaneous Oct. 1925 to July 1926 Memorabilia, photos, etc. (from France) 1925-1926 Miscellaneous: articles, clippings, short stories 1926, 1927, 1929 |
Laura Lilian Brandt Papers, 1925 - 1926Finding AidFinding aid prepared by Jeanne Lowrey.2013
Administrative InformationThe Laura Lilian Brandt papers were donated to the College Archives. Processed by and Finding Aid written by Jeanne Lowrey, 2012. Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection: Laura Lilian Brandt Papers, Box #, Smith College Archives. The records are open for research according to the regulations of the Smith College Archives without any additional restrictions. Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the documents must be requested from the Smith College Archives. Smith College owns copyright to any published material relating to college events and activities. Provenance and copyright ownership of other materials is unknown and researchers are responsible for determining any question of copyright. Return to the Table of Contents Biographical NoteLaura Lilian Brandt, Class of 1927, was born January 23, 1906 to Carl and Stella Shuman Brandt in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts. Her father was the owner of the Brandt Leather Company. Brandt attended Miss May's School in Boston, Massachusetts prior to enrollment at Radcliffe College. She transferred to Smith College after her first year at Radcliffe. She was a part of the first group from Smith to spend her junior year abroad in Paris, France, which she considered "one of the best and happiest years of [her] life". While at Smith she was a member of the French Club, served as a Student Adviser, and majored in French. She graduated in 1927. After leaving Smith, Brandt, worked at Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., W.W. Norton, and Macy's as an editor in New York. She married George Stevens in 1930 and had two daughters, one of whom attended Smith (Carol Stevens Kner, Class of 1958). In the 1950s, she worked at Princeton University. She served as the volunteer director of Recording for the Blind and was a founder of the Princeton Community Homemaker Services. In 1972 she helped to organize the Meals on Wheels program, where she volunteered for ten years. She died February 14, 1989 in Doylestown, PA. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionContains correspondence, memorabilia, and photographs documenting the Junior Year Abroad of Laura Lilian Brandt, Class of 1927, to Paris, France. Return to the Table of Contents
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