- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Clarke, Elizabeth Dodge Huntington, 1884-1976
- Title:
- Elizabeth Dodge Clarke Collection of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Postcards and Photographs
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cr56n533x
- Dates:
- circa 1908-1974
- Size:
- 3 boxes
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Boxes B-001335 to B-001337
- Language:
- and
Abstract
Consists of postcard correspondence, photographs, blank postcards, and some ephemera and small paintings collected and received by Elizabeth Dodge Clarke during her time in Istanbul, Turkey and after her return to the United States.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of postcard correspondence, photographs, blank postcards, and some ephemera and small paintings collected and received by Elizabeth Dodge Clarke during her time in Istanbul, Turkey in the early 1900s and after her return to the United States before World War II.
The bulk of the collection is made up of photographs and blank postcards, many of which depict places, institutions, or subjects in Turkey. Other locations represented in this collection include Cyprus, Lebanon, Greece, Palestine and Israel, Syria, Jordan, and Italy; some of the images depicted are unidentified. Photographs may have been taken during trips Clarke went on while living in Istanbul, or they could have been bought or collected from friends. Postcards include commercially produced postcards, as well as photographic postcards.
The correspondence includes notes from friends, colleagues, and former students in Turkey.
- Arrangement
As no original order was discernible, materials were arranged by subject or place.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Clarke, Elizabeth Dodge Huntington, 1884-1976
Elizabeth Dodge Clarke was involved in several organizations in Istanbul, Turkey before World War II: Robert College, the American College for Girls, and the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). Elizabeth Wentworth Dodge was born August 10, 1884 in Riverdale, New York. After graduating from the Brearley School in Manhattan in 1903, Elizabeth Dodge became involved in the YWCA through her aunt, Grace Hoadley Dodge, a philanthropist who was active in the formation of the YWCA.
Elizabeth Dodge's father was President of the Board of Trustees of Robert College, a private American high school in Istanbul founded in 1863. In 1916, she married George H. Huntington, a teacher at Robert College. They lived in Istanbul until 1933 when they returned to the United States to seek treatment for Huntington's polio. They returned to Istanbul in 1938, still active in positions at Robert College, but then left again before World War II. Huntington died in 1953.
Throughout this time, Clarke was active on the board of Robert College; worked with the American College for Girls, a school for Christian Turkish women in Istanbul; and participated in the YWCA's Istanbul Service Center.
Clarke married her friend Dumont Clarke in 1955. She received an honorary degree from the Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio in 1963. She died January 9, 1976 in Riverdale, New York.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Elizabeth Dodge Clarke in 1970 . AM 2020-3.
- Appraisal
No materials were removed from the collection during 2019 processing beyond routine appraisal practices.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Alice Griffin in July 2019. Finding aid written by Alice Griffin in July 2019.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Elizabeth Dodge Clarke Collection of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Postcards and Photographs; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cr56n533x
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Boxes B-001335 to B-001337
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- Subject Terms:
- Christian education--Turkey--History--20th century.
Clothing and dress--Turkey
Street vendors--Turkey--Istanbul--20th century.
Women--Education (Higher)--Turkey--Istanbul--History--20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence
Paintings (visual works)
Picture postcards
Printed ephemera - Names:
- American College for Girls (Istanbul, Turkey)
Robert College (Istanbul, Turkey)
Near East Relief (Organization)
Fisher, Edgar J. (Edgar Jacob), 1919-2005
Huntington, George S. (George Sumner), 1861-1927
Kreider, Herman H. - Places:
- Istanbul (Turkey)--Building, structures, etc.--20th century
Izmir (Turkey)--Building, structures, etc.--20th century
Adapazarı (Turkey)--Building, structures, etc.--20th century
Bursa (Turkey)--Building, structures, etc.--20th century
Göreme (Turkey)--Building, structures, etc.--20th century
Amasya (Amasya İli, Turkey)--Building, structures, etc.--20th century
Üçhisar (Turkey)--Building, structures, etc.--20th century
Nevşehir (Turkey)--Landscapes--20th century
Ürgüp (Turkey)--Landscapes--20th century
Ankara (Turkey)--Building, structures, etc.--20th century
Cyprus--Landscapes--20th century
Lebanon--Landscapes--20th century
Greece--Landscapes--20th century
Palestine--Landscapes--20th century
Israel--Landscapes--20th century
Syria--Landscapes--20th century
Jordan--Landscapes--20th century
Italy--Landscapes--20th century