Helen Shear Diary

Collection

Identifier: M2255

Staff Only

Content Description

Collection contains an official Camp Fire Girl personal diary (January-May 1937) written by Shear when she was 17 years old. Contents mention a trip to Trinity Church at 18th and Broadway, going to the City Auditorium to see the Civic Symphony Orchestra, visiting Englewood and a Camp Fire meeting at 2105 South Fillmore Street, frigid snowy weather, writing school reports, working at the Camp Fire office, visiting neighbors and friends and folding Red Cross bandages.

Dates

January-May 1937

Language of Materials

Material is in English unless otherwise noted.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Copyright

All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from material in the collection should be discussed with the appropriate librarian or archivist. Permission for publication may be given on behalf of the Denver Public Library as the owner of the physical item. It is not intended to include or permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained by the customer. The imply Library does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or publication rights of the manuscript held by the writer, heirs, donors, or executors. Reproduction restrictions are decided on a case-by-case basis.

Biographical / Historical

Helen Elizabeth Shear was born on June 12, 1920 in Denver Colorado to Charles and Dortha Shear. The Shear family lived in Denver at 2595 South Fillmore in the University Park neighborhood. Shear was a Camp Fire girl and graduated from South High School in 1938. The family later moved to Dillon, Colorado, where by 1940, Helen Shear was working as a waitress. She married Andrew Q. Everly and lived in Springfield, Missouri and Wichita, Kansas. Her last residence was in Amarillo, Texas where she died on March 8, 2005. She is buried next to her husband at Brown Cemetery in Cedar Creek, Missouri.

Extent

1 envelope(s)

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift, Shannon Mawhiney, 2019.

General

Catalog record based on preliminary inventory.

General

Alternate title: "Diary of a Camp Fire Girl"

General

Diary contains Camp Fire Girl symbols, phases of the moon symbols and interpretations, credo, Law of the Camp Fire.

Subjects

Denver (Colo.) -- History -- 20th century. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Diaries Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Girls -- Colorado -- Denver -- Societies and clubs. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings