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Clayton, Mary Morris (1893-1993) Photo Album, circa 1929-1939.
Three-ring binder containing approximately 400 photographs depicting an approximate decade in the life of Dr. Clayton; all are small-format, black-and-white images, beginning with her time at Mount Holyoke College, where she was an assistant professor in the physiology department, many showing her colleagues, including the founder of that department, Professor Abby Howe Turner (1875-1957), and the other physiology adjuncts: Dorothy Elizabeth Williams, Mary Isabel Newton, and Helen McGregor TeWinkel; in addition to images of Clayton's recreational activities, which include a trip to Europe with friends, day tripping in coastal Maine, hiking, and photos of family, snapshots of other medical professionals, such as obstetrics and gynecological physician Dr. Katherine Kuder and her sister, the researcher Alberta Kuder, and many other women working in the medical and scientific fields; photos in a good state of preservation.
Clayton was born in Shelbyville, Indiana. She graduated from Bucknell Institute in 1912, and earned a bachelor's degree at Barnard, through the Columbia Teacher's College in 1918. She subsequently entered the University of Rochester, where she earned her master's degree and Ph.D. in vital economics. Clayton taught at Mount Holyoke for six years in the physiology department under Professor Turner, specializing in nutrition studies. In 1934, she moved to Maine to take a position as nutritionist at the university in Orono. This album covers the period at Holyoke, and the move to Maine. It illustrates Clayton's life brimming with travel, social activities, and adventure, surrounded by a network of other women with careers and education similar to her own. When this album arrived at Swann, Clayton was unidentified. She had only written "self," "myself," or nothing at all on her own pictures. The cataloger is gratified to attach Clayton's name and biography to the stories told by these photos.
