Photograph Albums Documenting the Life of a Young American Woman in Mexico, 1923/1940

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Summary

Extent:
0.209 Linear Feet
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

2 photograph albums containing 320 photographs in total. The larger album, labeled "Photographs," contains 241 captioned photographs; it documented the childhood of Annette Angela Kennalley, whose father was an American Oil worker in Tampico, Mexico and later Monterrey, Mexico until 1930. The smaller album, labeled "Recuerdo, Hotel 'Casa Domke,' Caracas," contains 74 photographs from Annette's teenage years; they include trips to Venezuela, Mexico, and Trinidad, as well as her time at St. Vincents College in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Photographs include candid images of infants, toddlers, preteens, and teenagers as well as their adult friends and parents.

Physical facet:
Both albums are in good condition; the photographs are attached to the pages, and the albums' rope bindings still hold.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Photograph albums
Places:
Mexico