Materials are arranged in series (in chronological order):

Series 1: Travel Journals

Series 2: Bound Class Notes

Series 3: Essays

Series 4: Drawings and Clippings

Isabelle Sprague-Smith was a painter, art activist, and art educator including art instructor and principal at the Veltin School for Girls in New York City from 1900-25.   Sprague-Smith was also Director of the MacDowell Association in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and founder of the Bach Festival in Winter Park, Florida.  Her daughter, Hilda, writer of most of the texts contained within the collection, graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1909 with a degree in History, Economics and Politics. She preceded her mother in death, passing away in 1942, the same year that the books in this collection were given to Berea College.

Smith, Hilda Sprague.

Bryn Mawr College -- Alumni and alumnae.
Sprague-Smith, Isabelle Dwight