The Florence and Geraldine Fenn Inner-City Scholarship collection documents the administration of the scholarship and the experiences of student participants from 1969 to 1991. Background materials include historical information on the scholarship, biographical information on Geraldine Fenn, correspondence, clippings, and Fenn Scholar biographical files. The bulk of the collection consists of materials created by individual scholars or groups of scholars between 1971 and 1991 during their six week residence in Denver, Colorado.
The collection is composed of scrapbooks, journals, photographs, and related materials documenting participants’ work and living experiences. Included are photographs of Fenn Scholars and their work sites, weekly expense sheets, itineraries, personal journals, newspaper clippings, and brochures from Denver locations. The materials were originally arranged in scrapbooks, which were dismantled for preservation purposes. Photographs were transferred to the University Archives Photograph Archives, and scrapbook ephemera were placed in separate folders. Three scrapbooks dating from 1989 to 1991 were retained in their original condition as examples.