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Edith A. Hensolt papers , 1896-1954
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Hensolt, Edith Ashmore, 1882-1975
- Title
- Edith A. Hensolt papers
- Dates
- 1896-1954 (inclusive)18961954
- Quantity
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3 linear feet, (2 containers)
- Collection Number
- Ax 588
- Summary
- Edith Ashmore (Hensolt) (1882-1975) was born in China to Baptist missionaries, and she later graduated from Vassar, became a librarian, and traveled widely. The collection (1896-1999) contains diaries, extensive personal correspondence, recollections and photographs of travel to Hawaii, Japan, China, and California.
- Repository
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University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
UO Libraries--SCUA
1299 University of Oregon
Eugene OR
97403-1299
Telephone: 5413463068
spcarref@uoregon.edu - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time.
- Additional Reference Guides
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See the Current Collection Guide for detailed description and requesting options.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Edith Ashmore (Hensolt) (1882-1975) was born in China to Baptist missionaries, William, Jr. and Lida Scott. She and her brother Frank moved to the United States in 1895, where they were raised in a home for missionary children in Morgan Park, Illinois, outside Chicago.
Ashmore graduated from Vassar College in 1906, and later worked at the University of Chicago library. She married Charles Elder on August 10, 1916. They had two children, Rachel and Philip, and moved to Boulder, Colorado. Charles died May 22, 1935. Edith then relocated to Albany, Oregon, and later married Fred Hensolt.
Edith Hensolt was the primary person who gathered her family's papers together, and that collection was also donated to the University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives, and is known as the Ashmore family papers, Ax 564. This collection of Edith Hensolt's personal papers is separate from her family's papers.
[Source: Finding aid to the Ashmore family papers, Ax 564. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries]
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
There are six volumes of diaries that contains almost daily entries. The date ranges are as follows: 1912-1916; 1917-1921; 1922-1933; 1935-1944; 1945-1949; and 1950-1954.
Correspondence files include personal letters (1896-1999) Hensolt wrote to her parents while she was a student in Illinois. There is also correspondence sent during 1900-1906 while she was a student in Ohio, and at Vassar. There are additional folders of correspondence written by Hensolt, to her parents, through 1933.
Folders that are labeled "Vignettes" contain recollections of travels Hensolt went on with her family, and at other times by herself, during the 1800's to Honolulu, Japan, China, and Mill Valley California shortly after the San Francisco earthquake.
The collection also contains photograph albums of trips to Japan (1880s), Vassar College (1906), photos of Granville, Ohio and Northpoint, M (?) (1901), and photos of Chicago University (1910).
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Librarians--United States
- Missionaries--China--Correspondence
- Women librarians--United States
Personal Names
- Hensolt, Edith Ashmore, 1882-1975
- Hensolt, Edith Ashmore, 1882-1975
- Hensolt, Edith Ashmore, 1882-1975
Family Names
- Ashmore family
Geographical Names
- China--Description and travel
- Honolulu (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- Japan--Description and travel
- Mill Valley (Calif.)--Description and travel
- Oregon--Social life and customs--20th century
- United States--Social life and customs--19th century
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century
Form or Genre Terms
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Photograph albums
