Finding aid created by: Steffi Chappell
Date: 2014
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| Creator: | Sedgwick, Lillian Reynolds. |
| Title: | Lillian Reynolds Sedgwick Papers |
| Dates: | 1906-1948 |
| Size: | 4 boxes (2.25 linear feet) |
| Abstract: | Materials related to Lillian Reynolds Sedgwick's years as both a student at University of Chicago and a professor of botany at Syracuse University |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 |
Lillian Reynolds Sedgwick (1896-1987) was a botany professor at Syracuse University. She received her bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in botany from the University of Chicago, where she was a student until 1922. While studying at the University of Chicago, Sedgwick met her future husband, Paul Joseph Sedgwick. He was also a student of botany, and the two would together turn their passion for plant life and teaching into life-long careers.
In 1922, after graduating from the University of Chicago, the couple moved to Syracuse, New York and both became employed as botany professors at Syracuse University. They married two years later, on September 6, 1924 and eventually had one daughter, Joanne. Along with teaching botany at Syracuse University, Sedgwick also worked as a technical assistant at the University's Natural History Museum in Lyman Hall and was instrumental in the installation of the campus's first greenhouse, originally built on the quad.
Sedgwick was involved with Camp Fire, originally known as Camp Fire Girls of America, for most of her life; she first joined the organization in 1915 at the age of nineteen. The Camp Fire Girls of America taught young girls outdoor skills and engaged them in many outdoor activities, such as camping. Sedgwick taught nature and crafts and served as a camp director for the Onondaga Council of Camp Fire Girls and as a member of the organization's board of directors. She also worked as the nature director for one of Camp Fire's properties, Camp Talooli, in Pennellville, New York for many summers. Over the course of decades Sedgwick worked with many young girls, who affectionately nicknamed her "Miss Teeny" because of her short four-foot-ten stature. A log cabin at Camp Talooli was constructed and named Teeny Lodge in her memory.
Throughout her life Sedgwick participated in many other clubs and organizations. She was a member of the Syracuse Botanical Club, the Onondaga Primrose Society, the Syracuse University Women's Club, the American Rock Garden Society, and the Alaska Native Plant Society. Sedgwick was also a former president of the Professional Women's League and a member of the Center for Nature Education at Baltimore Woods in Marcellus and served on the organization's board.
The Lillian Reynolds Sedgwick Papers is divided into five series: The On-Time News, Personal papers, Printed materials, Student materials from the University of Chicago, and Teaching materials.
The On-time news series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence sent between Sedgwick, her husband, and their friends from the University of Chicago. The correspondence is styled as a newsletter called "The On-Time News" with the authors of the letters referring to themselves as "editors." Content consists of daily life updates, and occasionally includes attached photographs, poems, and drawings.
The Personal papers series contains two small music books Sedgwick used as a young girl when practicing her music, a 1948 invitation to dinner hosted by the Professional Women's League.
The Printed materials series contains five published articles by various authors, including one article written by Sedgwick and published under her maiden name, Lillian Grace Reynolds.
The Student materials from the University of Chicago series contains primarily handwritten notes from classes Sedgwick took while working towards her bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in botany at the University of Chicago.
The Teaching materials series contains assignments, notes, and other papers from Sedgwick's career as a professor of botany at Syracuse University.
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.
The University Archives holds a clippings file and a portrait file on Lillian Reynolds Sedgwick, as well as the papers of her husband and fellow botany professor, Paul Joseph Sedgwick.
Names
Sedgwick, Lillian Reynolds.
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University.
University of Chicago.
Subjects
Botany.
College teachers.
Higher education.
Types of Material
Correspondence.
Instructional materials.
Photographs.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Lillian Reynolds Sedgwick Papers,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Joanne Sedgwick in 2009.
Processing Information
Correspondence materials with attached photographs were placed in mylar sleeves. All materials were placed acid-free folders and boxes.
Materials are arranged in alphabetical order within their series.
On-time news
Personal papers
Printed materials
Student materials from the University of Chicago
Teaching materials
| On-time news | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | Incoming 1921-1925 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Outgoing 1921-1925 | ||||||||||
| Personal papers | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Musical compositions and exercises 1906, 1909-1910 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Professional Women's League dinner invitation 1948 | ||||||||||
| Printed materials | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | The ancestry of maize by Paul Weatherwax 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Female gametophyte of microcycas by Lillian Grace Reynolds 1924 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hardy woody plants by Frank A. Waugh and Charles H. Thompson 1930 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Outlines of economic botany by Francis Ramaley 1926 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Plant successions in the great basin by Mildred E. Faust 1928 | ||||||||||
| Student materials from the University of Chicago | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Algae (general) 1916 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Algae (special) 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Angiosperms (general) 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Angiosperms (special) 1919, 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Applied ecology 1919 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Applied ecology 1920 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bacteriology 1922, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Botany 35 given by G.D. Fuller undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bryophytes (general) 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bryophytes (special) 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Cytology 1920 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ecological anatomy 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Elementary botany 1916 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Elementary botany laboratory manual 1916 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Evolution 1917-1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Experimental ecology undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Forest ecology 1920 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fungi (general) 1916 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fungi (special) 1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gardening 1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Geographic botany I 1921 | ||||||||||
| FC 2-1 | Geographic botany I 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Geographic botany II 1922 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gymnosperms (general) 1917, 1920 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gymnosperms (special) 1919, 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Histology 1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Industrial plants undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Microchemistry 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notes - unidentified 1919, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Paleobotany 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Pathology 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Physiographic ecology 1918, 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Plant physiology 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Pteridophytes (general) 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Pteridophytes (specific) 1920 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Seminar in history of botany and ecology 1919, 1922 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Special morphology of algae 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Special morphology of angiosperms 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Special morphology of fungi 1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Special morphology of gymnosperms 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Spermatophytes 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Taxonomic Botany 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | University of Chicago extension division correspondence-study department: general morphology of the algae and fungi undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Zoology 1917 | ||||||||||
| Teaching materials | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Assignments 1931, undated | ||||||||||
| Botany 2 | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Exam and review questions undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Laboratory assignments and quizzes 1925 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Laboratory assignments 1926 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Laboratory assignments 1927 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Laboratory outline 1928 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Botany 16 1928-1931, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Key to common genera of trees of northern Utah undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Nature study 1931 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Northeastern forest experiment station 1930 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Notes - unidentified 1925, undated (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Phisiographic ecology 34 1930 | ||||||||||