Collection inventory

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Joan Levison Scrapbook

An inventory of her scrapbook at the Syracuse University Archives

Finding aid created by: Emily Banach
Date: 2021

Revision history:

Biography

Joan Levison (1927-2000) attended Syracuse University from 1944 to 1948. She graduated in 1948 with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts and was a pre-medical student. While at Syracuse University, Levison lived in Root Cottage, one of the houses for women students owned by the University at the time. She was also a member and the historian of Alpha Epsilon Delta, a health preprofessional honor society.

Scope and Content Note

The Joan Levison Scrapbook contains black-and-white photographs and other enclosures collected by Levison during her time as a student at Syracuse University in the mid-1940s. Most of the photographs show Levison and other female students at Root Cottage doing activities such as relaxing in their rooms and the cottage’s backyard, playing in the snow, and dressing up to go to the Easter Sunday service at Hendricks Chapel. There are also photographs of Levison and other students, most likely other pre-medical students, wearing white lab coats in a class laboratory setting. There are some photographs of campus buildings and events such as Spring Weekend and Winter Carnival as well. The enclosures in the scrapbook are the 1948 Syracuse University commencement program, an article about the Archbold Gymnasium fire, and the 1947 Alpha Epsilon Delta New York Beta chapter installation banquet program.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions:

Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.

Use Restrictions:

Written permission must be obtained from the Syracuse University Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

Related Material

More photographs of students and campus buildings and events can be found in the Syracuse University Photograph Collection.

Selected Search Terms

Names

Alpha Epsilon Delta.
Levison, Joan.
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University.

Subjects

Premedical education.
Student activities.
Women college students.
Women in science.
Higher education.

Types of Material

Clippings (information artifacts)
Photographs.
Programs (documents)
Scrapbooks.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Joan Levison Scrapbook,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Purchased in 2021.

Processing Information

Loose photographs were placed in mylar sleeves and put in an acid-free folder with other loose enclosures. The scrapbook and that folder were placed in an acid-free box.

Arrangement

Materials are arranged alphabetically.

Table of Contents

Scrapbook

Inventory