Mae Alvan Belt Diaries 1933-1943

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.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Mae Alvan Belt Diaries, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
.25 Cubic Feet
Creator:
Belt, Mae Alvan (b. circa 1916)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Mae Alvan Belt Diaries, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of three diaries of Mae Alvan Belt of Rockville, Maryland, dating from 1933, 1936-1940, and 1941-1943.

This diary was written while Mae Belt was a teenager and contains brief entries that mention school, house work, and social life.

This diary contains brief daily entries. Mae Belt seems to live with her parents and mentions going to work, working some evenings, helping with Red Cross work, doing house hold chores, but also comments on her social life and particular her courtship with a man named Frank, whom she should marry in the early 1940s.

This volume contains brief daily entries relating to Mae's work, her relationship with Frank, and social activities. At some time she was enrolled in Red Cross nursing classes. She also mentions her engagement to Frank and moving into a room of her own. A photograph, dried flower, postcards, and clippings that were inserted between pages of this diary have been removed and saved.

Acquisition information:
Purchased on 4/26/2010.
Processing information:

Accessioned and minimally processed in April 2010 by Ute Schechter, Warren E. Burger Archivist.

Physical location:
Special Collection Research Center