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Preferred Citation:

Helen Minor Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Processing Information:

Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in May 2012.

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Scope and Contents

Diaries, photographs, and clippings, 1935-1951, of Helen Minor of Baltimore, Maryland. Minor also seems to have spent time in Indiana and Ohio. Includes diary entries for almost every day from 1935 through 1948, with entries becoming more scattered between 1948 and 1951. Diary entries primarily concern Minor's day to day activities, including her job, people with which she meets, events which she attends, and her lack of relationships with men. There are also photographs, primarily of an unidentified man during World War II. Finally, there are clippings which prmarily contain quotes and aphorisms.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Great Depression
• Photographs
• World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives
• World War, 1939-1945--United States
• World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States