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Elizabeth Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: M262

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Scope and Content

Papers, chiefly correspondence, business records, newspaper clippings, and related material, of Elizabeth "Bece" Wilson concerning Bowdoin College student boarders at her home at 82 Federal Street, Brunswick, Maine. Correspondents include active and prior boarders.

Dates

  • Creation: 1953-2004

Creator

Biographical/Historical Note

Elizabeth Hawkins Wilson (1905-2004) received an honorary M.A. from Bowdoin in 1989. She was graduated from Smith College in 1927 and then completed a B.S. from the Yale University School of Nursing. In 1931 she married Clement S. Wilson (Bowdoin Class of 1927). After her husband's death in 1948, she worked as a nurse at Dudley Coe Infirmary at Bowdoin College, the Maine State Public Health Nursing Department, and the Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. She rented rooms in her home at 82 Federal Street to over 250 Bowdoin students over the course of more than fifty years.

Extent

2 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Papers, chiefly correspondence, business records, newspaper clippings, and related material, of Elizabeth "Bece" Wilson concerning Bowdoin College student boarders at her home at 82 Federal Street, Brunswick, Maine.

Arrangement

Organized into three series: Correspondence, 1977-1997, n.d.; Clippings and Printed Ephemera, 1980-1998, n.d.; Rent Records and Related Materials, 1953-2004, n.d.

Related Names

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Elizabeth Wilson Papers
Date
2011
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 Repository

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Contact:
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Brunswick Maine 04011 USA
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