Edith Lille Pattengill Brant scrapbook, 1873-1878
0.1 linear feet
Born in Lansing, Michigan in 1883, Edith Leslie (Pattengill) Brant was a University of Michigan graduate (Class 1906). She was the daughter of Henry Romaine Pattengill and Elizabeth Adaline Sharpsteen. Her father was a prominent educator, former superintendent of public instruction of Michigan, and candidate on the National Proressive Ticket for Governor of Michigan in 1914 and again in 1916.Scrapbook documents Pattengill’s time as a student at the University of Michigan. It contains photographs of Pattengill with other students and with her family, football memorabilia, dance cards, correspondence, newspaper clippings, ephemera, cards and invitations, correspondence, postcards, programs and playbills, and various objects. The collection includes photographs of Pattengill’s future husband Austin T. Brant, her brothers Victor and Craig (who also attended U-M), other family members, and members of her sorority Lambda Rho Tau.