Guide to the Mary Patterson Routt Papers
Guide to the Mary Patterson Routt Papers
Collection number: D1973.1
Ella Strong Denison LibraryLibraries of The Claremont Colleges
Claremont, California
- Processed by:
- Lorain Wang
- Date Completed:
- 2003
- Encoded by:
- Kelley Wolfe Bachli
Biography / Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
- Mary Routt Memorabilia Room, circa 1900-1986
- Photographs, circa 1890-1985
- Correspondence, circa 1908-1973
- Biographical material, 1908-1981
- Claremont Colleges, 1926-1984
- Newspaper clippings, circa 1920-1982
- Ephemera, circa 1776-1982
- Writings of Mary Routt, 1908-1983
- Scrapbook and photo albums, circa 1850-1940
- Bibles, circa 1866-1933
Mary Routt Memorabilia Room, circa 1900-1986
Scope and Content Note
Autographed photograph of Routt, 1935
Paintings of Grinnell and Wellesley colleges, undated
Photographs of Routt as a teenager and in her early 20's, circa 1900-1920
Certificates from Phi beta Kappa and Daughters of the American Revolution, 1927, 1919
Wellesley yearbook, 1909
Photographs of family and of Routt receiving honorary doctorate from Grinnell College, circa 1912 - 1966
Pamphlets, circa 1930-1950
Awards, undated
Song composed by friend for Routt's wedding, 1912
Newspaper clippings, circa 1930s
Soviet Union pocket guide, circa 1933
Press card, circa 1930-1950
Photographs of Routt as a correspondent and of Stephen Early and Henry Morgenthau, circa 1930-1950
Orville and Mary Routt's passport, 1928
Newspaper clippings, circa 1930-1950
Photographs of Routt at Scripps College, circa 1985
Correspondence from Eleanor Roosevelt, circa 1930-1950
Awards from Scripps College, undated
White House invitations, circa 1930-1950
Memorial service announcement for Routt, 1986
Two copies of The Life and Times of a Washington Correspondent, 1983
Autographed photographs of the Roosevelts, circa 1930-1950
Painting of Scripps College, undated
Dedication of Routt Residence Hall, 1966
Photographs of Routt at award dinner, with original Scripps College Board of Trustees, and in front of Routt Residence Hall, circa 1966-1983
Lecture series announcements, circa 1982-1983
Photographs, circa 1890-1985
Scope and Content Note
Thirteen black and white photographs of ruins in desert , circa 1921
Twelve black and white photographs of desert landscapes , circa 1921
24 black and white photographs of inhabitants of a pueblo , circa 1921
Two black and white photographs of ceremonial dance , circa 1921
Five black and white photographs of ceremonial dance , circa 1921
Four black and white photographs of huts , circa 1921
Four black and white photographs of pueblo , circa 1921
Four black and white photographs of houses and church , circa 1921
Four black and white photographs of Native Americans , circa 1921
Seven black and white photographs of Aztec ruins in New Mexico , circa 1921
Seventeen black and white photographs of artifacts and models of buildings , circa 1921
Three black and white photographs of goat grazing near ruins , 1921
24 black and white photographs of buffalo dance in Santa Fe, New Mexico , circa 1921
Three black and white photographs of Palm Canon, California , circa 1920-1940
Three black and white photographs of lightening , circa 1920-1940
Two black and white photographs of Coachilla Valley, California , circa 1920-1940
Seven black and white photographs of mountain landscape , circa 1920-1940
Three black and white photographs of donkeys , circa 1920-1940
One black and white photograph of covered wagon , circa 1920-1940
Three black and white photographs of desert , circa 1920-1940
Twenty black and white photographs of pueble maize culture , circa 1920-1940
Five black and white photographs of pueblo , circa 1920-1940
Two black and white photographs of adobe church and building , circa 1920-1940
Two black and white photographs of pueblo , circa 1920-1940
Fifteen black and white photographs of residents of rural town , circa 1921-1922
Five black and white photographs of native american women in traditional clothing , circa 1920-1940
33 black and white photographs of pueblo people and Native American rituals and ceremonies , circa 1921-1922
One black and white photograph of old hand-carved door of the mission church in Santa Clara, New Mexico, circa 1921
30 black and white photographs of camping trip , circa 1920-1940
Sixteen negatives , undated
Nine black and white photographs taken from boat , circa 1930s
Eleven black and white photographs taken in Russia , circa 1933
Three black and white photographs of a cathedral , circa 1930s
Five black and white photographs of architectural details of building , circa 1930s
One black and white photograph of European building , circa 1930s
Eleven black and white photographs of domed building with arches , circa 1930s
One black and white photograph of St. George Statue in Stockholm , circa 1930s
Three black and white photographs of a cathedral , circa 1930s
Seven black and white photographs of architecture [in Copenhagen] , circa 1930s
Three black and white photographs of statues , circa 1930s
Two black and white photographs of interior of church in restoration , circa 1930s
One photograph of Rene Lalique bronze medal , undated
Sixteen black and white photographs of Nebraska State Capitol , circa 1930s
Two black and white photographs of Los Angeles Public Library and library interior , undated
One black and white photograph of Routt at Grinnell College , circa 1906
Ten black and white family photographs , circa 1890-1906
Two photographs of Frederick Hard and Ernest Jaqua, former presidents of Scripps College , circa 1930s and
Three black and white photographs of Routt with friends , circa 1906
Eight black and white family photographs , circa 1930-1980
Three black and white photographs of Routt with others in Havana, Cuba and at Magdalina River in Colombia, 1933
Three black and white photograph of Routt with her son, Robert , 1921 - 1936
One black and white photograph of Routt holding autographed photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt , circa 1969
Eight black and white photographs of Routt , circa 1930s
Eleven black and white photographs from days Routt was a correspondent , circa 1930-1950
Seven family photographs , circa late 1930s-1970
Four black and white photographs of Mary and Orviille Routt , 1926 - 1963
One black and white photograph of Eleanor and Elliot Roosevelt and Robert Routt , 1933
Ten family photographs , circa 1930-1980
One color photograph of Danny Munday in his wheelchair , circa 1970s
Twelve photographs of Routt at Scripps College , circa 1969
Four black and white photographs of award dinner , 1983
Seven photographs of Routt , circa 1980s
One black and white autographed photograph of Hattie W. Caraway , circa 1930s
Black and white photograph of Postmaster General Farley , 1934
Two black and white photographs of Mary and Orville with friends , circa 1910
Three black and white photographs of Routt in Mary Routt Memorabilia Room at Scripps College , 1985
One black and white photograph of Eisenhower and Kennedy , circa 1960s
One black and white photograph of Secretary of State Cordell Hull being interviewed during the World Economic Conference in London, 1933
One black and white photograph of Lyndon Johnson's inauguration on board Air Force One on the day Kennedy was assasinated, 1963
Letters to Routt , 1908 - 1971
Letters written by Routt , circa 1951-1957
Correspondence, circa 1908-1973
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Joe Griggs regarding Lindbergh poem by Routt , 1983
Letter from Los Angeles Times to Routt regarding man in picture , 1974
Letter from Scripps College president Mark H. Curtis to students , 1973
Christmas cards , undated
Letter from Robert Routt to his grandmother regarding his lunch with Eleanor Roosevelt , 1933
Letter from Women's National Press Club and Scripps College with excerpt of Routt's interview with Ella Browning Scripps and copy of article, 1932 - 1970
Letters from Routt to her mother , 1939, 1941
Biographical Matieral, 1908-1981
Scope and Content Note
Writings about Routt and photograph , circa 1940-1981
Illustrated partially fictional biography of Routt created by her friends, Alice Olmsted and Grace Card , 1908
Grinnell College annual letters , 1908 - 1915
Press release and correspondence regarding presenting of Distinguished Service Award to Routt , 1980-1981
Scripps College thesis on Routt , 1975
Articles on Routt , circa 1969-1970
Copies of article on Routt living in Scripps College dorms , 1974
Article on Routt in Progressive Bulletin , 1974
Diary entries , 1936-1939
Draft of oral history interview with Routt by Enid H. Douglass , 1970
Resolution of the Board of Trustees of Scripps College honoring Routt , 1970
Publicity story about Routt with letter from Helen Eisworth , 1968
Orville Routt's diary , 1909
Newspaper clippings of social and business activities of Mary and Orville Routt , undated
Articles on Routt , circa 1933-1941
Article on Routt's wedding , 1912
Claremont Colleges, 1926-1984
Scope and Content Note
Articles on Claremont Colleges , 1966 - 1974?
Board of Trustees materials, Scripps College board of trustees report , 1976
Board of Trustees materials, Scripps College buildings and grounds committee report , 1983
Board of Trustees materials, executive summary for Scripps College Endowment Fund - March 1983 , 1983
Board of Trustees materials, Scripps College endowment fund combination report - March 31, 1983 , 1983
Board of Trustees materials, memorandums and letters , 1983
Board of Trustees materials, financial reports and notes , 1982-1983
Board of Trustees materials, curriculum vitaes and profiles of Scripps College professors , circa 1982
Board of Trustees materials, job description for position of Vice President for Planning and Research and candidate profile, 1983
Board of Trustees materials, Board of Trustees meeting - January 27 , 1983
Board of Trustees materials, list of trustees of Scripps College 1926 - 1982 , 1982
Board of Trustees materials, financial report , 1982
Board of Trustees materials, executive summary for Scripps College Endowment Fund , 1982
Board of Trustees materials, meeting minutes for December 2 , 1926
The Four Colleges Players pamphlet , undated
Scripps College Bulletins , 1970, 1973
Scripps College Founders Day Convocation , 1970
Scripps College Alumnae News , 1968
The Script newsletter , 1984
Scripps College Alumnae News , 1967
Program for Claremont College's 30th anniversary celebration , 1977
Special Lectures at Scripps College handbills , 1982-1983
Scripps College Spring Awards Convocation program , 1983
Lunch menu , 1983
Newspaper Clippings, circa 1920-1982
Scope and Content Note
Column by Eleanor Roosevelt , undated
Articles on Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt , circa 1933
Photograph of Roosevelt's first lieutenants , circa 1932
Articles on health and beauty , undated
Articles on film, theater, music, and literature , undated
Articles on war and domestic wartime issues , circa 1938-1944
Articles on women , circa 1940-1971
Articles by Bill Henry , circa 1940s
Articles related to religion , circa 1923-1982
Clippings of poetry , undated
Articles on politics , circa 1920-1950
Miscellanious articles , circa 1930-1980
Ephemera, circa 1776-1982
Scope and Content Note
Personalized pencils , undated
White House invitations, pass, and notes , circa 1933-1980
Labor bulletins , 1937 - 1939
Programs for talks given by Routt and for dedication of Mary Routt Residence Hall at Scripps College as well as her nametag, circa 1940-1983
Drawings and sketches , circa 1776-1950s?
Sheet music with lyrics to "Don't Get Collegiate" , undated
Receipts from Honolulu , circa 1948
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 18th Annual Good Will Tour to Hawaii schedule , 1948
The Romancer - Wendell L. Willkie pamphlet , 1940
[magazine?] picture of a woman , circa 1930s
Itinerary and addresses of Mr. And Mrs. Hal C. Hardin , circa 1928
Hotel Negresco menu , 1959
Optical illusion , undated
Description of photographs of Eleanor Roosevelt's visit to Norton School and Scripps College on June 7, 1933, 1982
Handbill of "A Comrade Rides Ahead" to the memory of Emerson Hough , undated
Palm Springs Racquet Club pass , 1954
Cyclone '07 - Iowa [Grinnell] College yearbook, copy 1 , 1906
Cyclone '07 - Iowa [Grinnell] College yearbook, copy 2 , 1906
Wellesley booklets and program , 1909
Fabric from Akron airship , 1933
Church newsletters, booklets, and programs , circa 1923 and circa
Christian Science Monitor booklet on protecting 18th Amendment , circa 1920- early
Writings of Mary Routt, 1908-1983
Scope and Content Note
Draft of talk given at Twilight Club with article on her talk , circa 1930s
Routt's paper for English class entitled "Is the Higher Education of Woman Deteriorating the Home Life of Our Country?", 1908
Notebook of notes and drafts for newspaper articles , circa 1930-1950
Typed and handwritten drafts for newspaper articles , circa 1930-1950
Typed and handwritten drafts for newspaper articles , circa 1930-1950
Typed and handwritten drafts for newspaper articles , circa 1930-1950
Typed and handwritten drafts for newspaper articles , circa 1930-1950
Notebook of notes and drafts for newspaper articles , circa 1930-1950
Newspaper clippings of Facts, Folks, and Fancies in Beverly Hills Citizen , 1932
Newspaper clippings of Facts, Folks, and Fancies in Beverly Hills Citizen , 1933
Newspaper clippings of Facts, Folks, and Fancies in Beverly Hills Citizen , 1934
Newspaper clippings from Beverly Hills Citizen and Pasadena Star News , 1935
Newspaper clippings of Facts, Folks, and Fancies in Beverly Hills Citizen , 1936
Newspaper clippings from Beverly Hills Citizen and Pasadena Star News , 1937
Newspaper clippings of National Sidelights in Pasadena Star News , 1938
Newspaper clippings of National Sidelights in Pasadena Star News , 1940
Newspaper clippings of National Sidelights and Woman's Viewpoint , 1942
Newspaper clippings of Facts, Folks, and Fancies in Beverly Hills Citizen newspaper , circa 1932-1937
Newspaper clippings of National Sidelights in Pasadena Star News , circa 1935-1945
Newspaper clippings of Washington Sidelights in Pasadena Star News , circa 1935-1945
Newspaper clippings of Woman's Viewpoint , circa 1942
Newspaper clippings of A Woman Looks On , circa 1932-1945
Newspaper clippings of articles , circa 1932-1945
Newspaper clipping of Facts, Folks, and Fancies article on Ella Browning Scripps , 1932
Typed copies of alternate version of article on Ella Browning Scripps for newspaper article , 1978
Photocopies of photograph of Routt in front of church banned by Stalin Regime for The Life and Times of a Washington Correspondent, 1933
Letters, typed and handwritten drafts, and notes for The Life and Times of a Washington Correspondent, circa 1982
Typed copy of first draft of The Life and Times of a Washington Correspondentdated 1/20/83 , circa 1983
Typed copy of first draft of The Life and Times of a Washington Correspondentdated 1/20/83 , circa 1983
Notes and typed drafts of The Life and Times of a Washington Correspondent , circa 1983
Galley proofs of foreword, introduction, acknowledgements, chapters 3 - 7 of The Life and Times of a Washington Correspondent, circa 1983
Table of contents, list of illustrations, and galley proofs of chapters 8 - 10 of The Life and Times of a Washington Correspondent, circa 1983
Notes, galley proofs, and typed drafts of The Life and Times of a Washington Correspondent , circa 1983
Personal copy of The Life and Times of a Washington Correspondent signed by friends with notes by Routt, 1983
Scrapbook and photo albums, circa 1850-1940
Scope and Content Note
Writing assignments by Routt for French and Political Science class , circa 1904-1908
Correspondence , circa 1907-1909
Sutherland, Iowa postcards , circa 1910
Wellesley and Iowa [Grinnell] College commencement invitation and announcement , 1908-1909
Essay written by Routt's students at Sutherland High School , circa 1909
Grinnell College ephemera , circa 1904-1908
Programs , circa 1907-1918
Invitations , 1905 - 1909
Poem , undated
Young Men's Christian Association of Iowa College 1907-1908 lecture course catalog , 1907
Copy of speech to toast high school junior class , 1909
Postcard from Mary to Orville Routt , undated
Church related ephemera , circa 1908
Targets for shooting practice , circa 1911
Three black and white photographs , undated
Newspaper clippings , circa 1911
Nine black and white photographs from red photo album , undated
31 black and white photograph from black photo album , undated
Poem to remember rulers of England, handwritten bible passage, and Rieman & Purcel business card - from red photo album, undated
Collier's article on Reverend Charles Coughlin , 1935
Black and white photograph of Albert Wahl Hawkes , circa 1940s
Scrapbook containing photos, invitations, articles, and ephemera from Routt's days at Grinnell and Wellesley College as well as a teacher at Sutherland High School, undated
Bibles, circa 1866-1933
Scope and Content Note
Cruden, Alexander and Alfred Nevin. The Holy Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues, with Cruden's complete concordance ... comprehensive Bible , the word of God by ... Alfred Nevin ... [et al.]. Boston, Mass.: W.L. Richardson, 1877. 1877
Church leaflet, Modern Woodmen of America resolutions of respect certificate for Routt's father, newspaper clipping of Generallissimo Foch and General Pershing, and note - from Cruden bible, 1866, 1923, and no
Poem and church mission statement - from Holan bible , undated
Holman, A.J., & Co. The Holman new self-pronouncing Sunday-school teacher's Bible / containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations , 1894
Red photo album containing childhood photos and family photographs , circa 1850-1940
Black photo album containing photographs of friends , circa 1907-1910