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Charles Latham
3 March 1993
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 2 items
COLLECTION DATES: 1916-1922
PROVENANCE: Mary Elizabeth Ramier, Indianapolis IN, 27 February 1992
COPYRIGHT: Not held by Indiana Historical Society
ACCESSION NUMBER: 92.0246
Mary Elizabeth Hanger (b. 1904) lives in Indianapolis. Her mother, Lela Kern, had a second marriage to Frank J. Richmann. Mary Elizabeth attended Public School 57, spent a term at Butler College, and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1923. In 1927 she received a law degree from John Marshall Law School in Chicago. She later was married and divorced.
This collection consists of two items, the original and the printed versions of Mary Elizabeth Hanger's diary for the years 1916-1922.
Written in a handsomely produced The Little Colonel's Good Times Book, by Annie Fellows Johnston (Boston: J. C. Page, 1909), the diary has occasional rather than daily entries. Some are brief, some of several pages. The diary carries the author from her later high school years through her early college years. There is a mixture of simple entries, like the plot of a Mary Pickford movie at the Circle, and introspective passages, about how she looks at boys, and how she must make the most of her opportunities at college. In addition to graduating very young, she was active in student publications and in student affairs in both school and college.
The printed version of the diary, printed privately in 1991, reproduces the diary and adds footnotes, photographs, and items about her [step?]brother and her grandmother.
MAIN ENTRY: Hanger, Mary Elizabeth, 1904-
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Women--Indiana--Indianapolis--Diaries
Students--Indiana--Indianapolis--Diaries
Students--Illinois--Champaign--Diaries
Women college students--Indiana--Indianapolis
Women college students--Illinois--Champaign
Women--Education--Indiana--Indianapolis
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