Hilda P. Holme Explained

Hilda P. Holme
Birth Date:October 1, 1888
Birth Place:Salem, New Jersey
Death Place:Lutherville, Maryland
Occupation:Relief worker, book collector
Parents: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.

Early life

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]

Career

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]

Personal life

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nathanson . Marsha . Biographical Sketch of Pauline Waddington Holme . 2022-05-22 . Alexander Street Documents.
  2. News: 1940-06-15 . Mrs. P. W. Holme Dies at Residence; Leader of Women's Organizations Dies . 14 . The Baltimore Sun . 2022-05-22 . Newspapers.com.
  3. Book: Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1968) . Minutes of the Proceedings of Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends ... . 1905 . Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends . 76 . en.
  4. Vassar College, Vassarion (1910 yearbook): 65.
  5. Book: University, Johns Hopkins . University Register . 1925 . 902 . en.
  6. August 24, 1918 . Movements of Workers in France . Friends' Intelligencer . 539.
  7. News: 1920-12-01 . Will Go Abroad as Nurse . 4 . The Baltimore Sun . 2022-05-22 . Newspapers.com.
  8. News: Russell . Ruth Anne . 1923-03-07 . Women's College Notes . 2 . The Evening Journal . 2022-05-22 . Newspapers.com.
  9. News: 1922-01-24 . Outlines Need of Poland; Miss H. P. Holme Tells Ad Women Agriculture is Asset . 7 . The Baltimore Sun . 2022-05-22 . Newspapers.com.
  10. News: 1921-12-23 . Describes Condition of Polish Peasants . 10 . The Evening Sun . 2022-05-22 . Newspapers.com.
  11. Web site: Holme . Hilda P. . Soup kitchen bread (photograph) . 2022-05-22 . Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.
  12. News: Breen . Robert G. . 1956-02-22 . Illustrations on Display . 16 . The Baltimore Sun . 2022-05-22 . Newspapers.com.
  13. News: 1946-11-15 . Book Ceremony, Speech Tonight . 41 . The Evening Sun . 2022-05-22 . Newspapers.com.
  14. News: 1946-11-15 . Books Donated to Warsaw; International Understanding Sought by Gift . 20 . The Baltimore Sun . 2022-05-22 . Newspapers.com.
  15. 1947 . What They're Doing: Books for Poland . ALA Bulletin . 41 . 1 . 16 . 25692647 . 0364-4006.
  16. News: 1954-12-18 . New Library Gift Collection Shows History of Illustration . 4 . The Baltimore Sun . 2022-05-22 . Newspapers.com.
  17. News: 1924-12-12 . 4 Die as Train Crashes into Car at Crossing . 24 . The Baltimore Sun . 2022-05-22 . Newspapers.com.
  18. https://www.friendsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/emember/downloads/1960/HC12-50230.pdf "Deaths"
  19. News: 1965-12-15 . Folk Art and Costumes . 22 . The Baltimore Sun . 2022-05-22 . Newspapers.com.
  20. News: 1975-06-24 . Costumes on Display . 13 . The Evening Sun . 2022-05-22 . Newspapers.com.
  21. Wolk, Joan M. The Hilda P. Holme Illustrated Book Collection finding aid, Enoch Pratt Free Library Special Collections.
  22. Web site: Hilda Holme Book Illustration Collection - Enoch Pratt Free Library . 2022-05-22 . Digital Maryland.

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