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An 8x11” photograph album, put together largely while Ursula Hemingway, the younger sister of author Ernest Hemingway, was a student at Carleton College, Minnesota during the period of 1923-1924. The album, originally intended to house postcards, contains approximately 50 leaves, of which 20 leaves are filled with 140 photographs pasted in. Sizes ranging from 2x3” to 3½x6”, of which the first 84 photos are of Carleton College, college friends and activities, such as scenes, parades, parties, sporting events, and boating. The remaining 48 photos are all of Hemingway family activities back at their Summer place at Walloon Lake and home at 600 N. Kenilworth in Oak Park, Illinois. Included are a photo of the 6 Hemingway siblings, identified with the caption, “Ernie home from Paris, Dec. 1923”, other individual photos of the other sisters and brother, one of sister Marcelline (1898-1963) and another of her fiancée Sterling Stanford, (1893-1990) identified as “Marcelline and Sterling before their engagement was announced, 8/22”. A great shot of Ursula and Sunny paddling a canoe on the Des Planes River, 1921, various photos of the Hemingway family and Grandfather Hemingway. Also included is a very nice 2½x3¼” watercolor of a lighthouse initialed MVP (Mariana van Pelt), The Nantucket artist who Ursula had met on a Summer trip there with her Mother, Grace. All the photographs are identified on the album pages in pen and ink in Ursula’s neat script.

Accompanying the album are Ursula’s Carleton College yearbooks from 1922, 1923 and 1924. Ursula Hemingway is pictured in 1924 as President of the Junior Class. She would meet her future husband there, Jasper Jepson and after marriage they settled for their lifetime in Honolulu where Jepson was Vice President of The Bishop Trust. These items descended with other Hemingway family material and books offered here through the family of her only daughter, Gayle Hemingway Jepson.