McAllister, Jean Brown

Scope and Contents The Jean Brown McAllister Papers is a small collection, covering her years as an Oberlin student (1938-1942), coinciding with the years leading up to and including the early years of U.S. involvement in World War II. The letters written by Brown to her family in Series 1 represent the bulk of the collection. Undated letters were inscribed with postmark dates from envelopes by Archives staff. They reveal student life and its rituals and customs at Oberlin at the time. Early In her...