Memories Resurrected In Context: Gender and Remembrance in Charlotte Black's Scrapbook
Abstract
This article focuses on a scrapbook compiled by Charlotte Black, a Home Economics student who graduated from the Manitoba Agricultural College in 1925. The scrapbook, held at the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections, contains postcards, letters, invitations, memorabilia, and numerous photographs; and presents a snapshot of student life at the Manitoba Agricultural College. Scrapbooks are often disparaged as archival records. But in exploring the social and personal circumstances of the creator, scrapbooks can be read more critically, and their full value as archival records better understood.
RÉSUMÉ
Cet article fait le point sur un spicilège compilé par Charlotte Black, une étudiante en économie ménagère qui a obtenu son diplôme du Collège agricole du Manitoba en 1925. Le spicilège, déposé aux Archives et collections spéciales de l’Université du Manitoba, comprend des cartes postales, des lettres, des invitations, des souvenirs et plusieurs photographies, ce qui permet de donner une vue d’ensemble de la vie étudiante au Collège agricole du Manitoba. Les spicilèges sont souvent dépréciés comme documents d’archives. Mais en explorant les circonstances sociales et personnelles de leurs créateurs, les spicilèges peuvent être lus d’un oeil plus critique, et l’on parvient à mieux apprécier leur pleine valeur comme documents d’archives.
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