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Ella Walby Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG 626

Content Description

Books, Photocopies of Student Textbooks and Other Materials

Dates

  • Creation: 1892 - 2017

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research

Biographical / Historical

Collection was donated by Shirley Alice Dickinson Erhart: Birth 15 Dec 1929, Union, Mason County, Washington, USA; Death 19 Jul 2022 (aged 92), Shelton, Mason County, Washington, USA. It belonged to her grandmother, Ella Walby.

Ella Louise Walby Benton: Birth 6 Jul 1876, California, USA; Death 28 Jan 1929 (aged 52), Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA University of Idaho alum and raised in Genesee, Idaho.

Beloved wife of William B. Benton, mother of Alice Benton of Portland, Mrs. Gunner Haglund, Deep River, Wash.; Mrs. A. O. Dickinson of Union, Wash.

Her family immigrated from Germany and homesteaded in Genesee in 1884.

--Find a Grave

Extent

0.5 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Books, Photocopies of Student Textbooks

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials donated by Shirley Erhart in 2017 (UA 2017-03).

Condition Description

good

Title
Guide to Ella Walby Collection
Status
Completed
Author
Finding Aid prepared by Ariana Burns
Date
2024
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Repository