Sigma Phi. Delta of New York (Hobart College)

Abstract

The materials in this collection primarily date from Howard Van Rensselaer Palmer's time at Hobart College (circa 1899-1902) and his fundraising activities in the 1920s and 1930s.

Abstract A collection of photographs and papers relating to the Delta Chapter of Sigma Phi fraternity at Hobart College. The papers give a record of financial matters, and date from 1926 to 1934. Given to the Geneva Historical Society in 1993 by Theodore S. Smith, Jr., Hobart College class of 1956, the papers originally belonged to Perry Shepard, who passed them on to Smith's father T. Schuyler Smith class of 1912. The photographs were not part of this collection, but were combined with the papers at...