Item: Mary Meigs Atwater Letter to H.G. Merriam, February 5, 1936
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Finding Aid Title: Mary Meigs Atwater Letter to H.G. Merriam, February 5, 1936
Finding Aid Collection Number: 0530
Date Range of Collection: 1936-1967
Creator of Materials: Atwater, Mary Meigs
Content Description: In early 1936 Mary Atwater was contacted by Harold Guy Merriam, an English professor at Montana State University in Missoula, for information on her weaving school. Merriam had been appointed state supervisor of the Federal Writers' Project and his work would culminate in the publication of Montana, A State Guide Book in 1939. Atwater responded to Merriam's request by providing this detailed four page typewritten letter describing her guild, her weaving correspondence courses, her promotion of weaving for therapeutic work in rehabilitation and mental hospitals, and some personal information on her family. A second folder of printed weaving patterns designed or presented by Atwater is included.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv29287
Keywords: montana state university, missoula (montana), federal writer's project, rehabilitation, weaving
Subjects: Montana State University History
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