Fannie Sutter Photograph Album
name: label: Creator
content: Sutter, Fannie
label: Names
content: Battle Creek Normal School of Physical Education (Battle Creek, Mich.)
label: Names
content: Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943
topic: label: Topic
content: Swimming
label: Topic
content: Women -- Education
label: Topic
content: Physical education and training
label: Topic
content: Camping
label: Topic
content: Canoes and canoeing
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Picnicking
label: Topic
content: Plays
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Purchased at auction from Carmen D. Valentino in 2014.
creator: label: Creator
content: Sutter, Fannie
setName: label: See more items in
content: Fannie Sutter Photograph Album
abstract: label: Summary
content: A scrapbook created by Fannie Sutter detailing her time attending Battle Creek Normal School of Physical Education. It contains photographs, programs of events, and personal notes written by Fannie Sutter and her classmates concerning exercising, acting, and dressing for plays.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Battle Creek Normal School of Physical Education was founded in about 1908 as part of the complex of training schools and colleges associated with Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's sanitarium. This complex included medical training for doctors, nurses, dieticians, and physical therapists as well as the school to train physical education teachers. The all-women's school, organized by Dr. Kellogg, emphasized a program of vigorous outdoor activities. It was one of about two dozen schools in the nation that specifically focused on a physical education curriculum.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1919 - 1921
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1325
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Menus
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Photograph albums
label: Type
content: Clippings
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Corey Schmidt.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Menus -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Photograph albums -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Clippings -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An album compiled by Fannie Sutter while a student at Battle Creek Normal School of Physical Education, in Battle Creek, Michigan. The album contains black-and-white photographs and other school-related ephemera such as invitations, menus, clippings, and miscellany. The photographs show students engaged in physical activities such as swimming, canoeing, camping, walking, picnics, parties, and other forms of entertainment. The students often dressed in costume and staged plays, dance performances, and musicals.