Hilda P. Holme | |
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![]() Hilda P. Holme, from a 1922 newspaper | |
Born | October 1, 1888 |
Died | March 6, 1960 | (aged 71)
Occupation(s) | Relief worker, book collector |
Parent(s) | Pauline Waddington Holme and Richard Henry Holme |
Hilda Pauline Holme (October 1, 1888 – March 6, 1960) was an American Quaker relief worker in Europe after World War I, and a book collector.
Hilda P. Holme was born in Salem, New Jersey, the daughter of Richard Henry Holme and Pauline Waddington Holme. Her parents were Quakers; her father was a dairyman, and her mother was a noted temperance activist and suffragist. [1] [2] As a teenager, Holme served on a schools committee at the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends, along with her mother and older sister. [3] In 1910, following her mother and older sister, she graduated from Vassar College, [4] with further studies at Johns Hopkins University. [5]
Holme worked in France and Poland doing refugee relief and agricultural reconstruction work with the American Friends Service Committee during and after World War I. [6] [7] [8] She spoke to American women's clubs when she was home in Baltimore about her work, sometimes sharing examples of typical Polish peasant clothing. [9] [10] Some of the photographs she took while doing this work are in the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College. [11]
Holme collected hundreds of books, prints and illustrations in her travels, including books illustrated by Gustave Doré, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. [12] She also organized a donation of over 900 children's books to the Warsaw Public Library in 1946. [13] [14] [15] She donated her collection of books to the Enoch Pratt Free Library in 1954. [16]
Holme's older siblings both died in an automobile accident in 1924. [17] She died in 1960, aged 71 years, at a nursing home in Lutherville, Maryland. [18] Her collection of European folk costumes was donated to the International Center at the West Baltimore branch of the YWCA, and displayed there in 1965 and 1975. [19] [20] Her book collections became the Hilda Holme Book Illustration Collection at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, [21] and more than 100 of the illustrations are available through Digital Maryland. [22]
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Hilda P. Holme | |
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![]() Hilda P. Holme, from a 1922 newspaper | |
Born | October 1, 1888 |
Died | March 6, 1960 | (aged 71)
Occupation(s) | Relief worker, book collector |
Parent(s) | Pauline Waddington Holme and Richard Henry Holme |
Hilda Pauline Holme (October 1, 1888 – March 6, 1960) was an American Quaker relief worker in Europe after World War I, and a book collector.
Hilda P. Holme was born in Salem, New Jersey, the daughter of Richard Henry Holme and Pauline Waddington Holme. Her parents were Quakers; her father was a dairyman, and her mother was a noted temperance activist and suffragist. [1] [2] As a teenager, Holme served on a schools committee at the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends, along with her mother and older sister. [3] In 1910, following her mother and older sister, she graduated from Vassar College, [4] with further studies at Johns Hopkins University. [5]
Holme worked in France and Poland doing refugee relief and agricultural reconstruction work with the American Friends Service Committee during and after World War I. [6] [7] [8] She spoke to American women's clubs when she was home in Baltimore about her work, sometimes sharing examples of typical Polish peasant clothing. [9] [10] Some of the photographs she took while doing this work are in the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College. [11]
Holme collected hundreds of books, prints and illustrations in her travels, including books illustrated by Gustave Doré, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. [12] She also organized a donation of over 900 children's books to the Warsaw Public Library in 1946. [13] [14] [15] She donated her collection of books to the Enoch Pratt Free Library in 1954. [16]
Holme's older siblings both died in an automobile accident in 1924. [17] She died in 1960, aged 71 years, at a nursing home in Lutherville, Maryland. [18] Her collection of European folk costumes was donated to the International Center at the West Baltimore branch of the YWCA, and displayed there in 1965 and 1975. [19] [20] Her book collections became the Hilda Holme Book Illustration Collection at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, [21] and more than 100 of the illustrations are available through Digital Maryland. [22]
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