Archives & Manuscripts #14 - International League of Antiquarian ...

of the competitors including the winner, Zaharias, runner-up Germain, and LPGA co-founders Sessions and Bettye White (Danoff). Another
program that stands out is from the World’s Championship Challenge Match exhibition at Grosse Pointe, Michigan on September 23 and 24,
1941 at the Country Club of Detroit and is Signed by Nelson, Hogan, Wood, and Demaret.
The Fowler family were also music lovers who regularly supported their local community concert association. One scrapbook is filled with 13
programs from various shows Signed by conductors Eugene Ormandy, Vladimir Golschmann, and John Barbirolli; violist Joseph Szigeti; pianists
Felix Wolfes, Frank La Forge, and Ivor Newton; and opera singers Charles Kullman, Bidu Sayão, Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons, Marjorie Lawrence,
Richard Bonelli, and John Brownlee. Another album includes an autographed photo of pianist Eugene List and more programs Signed by pianist
Edward Kilenyi, conductors Frederick Stock, and the legendary violinists Jascha Heifetz.
Also of interest is the handwritten memoir by Fowler’s mother, Martha Newman Canine (1900-1991) which is spread over three spiral-bound
notebooks. The memoir describes her life as the daughter of a St. Louis doctor, her close relationship with her African-American nanny, various
personal tragedies, and of the childhood of Fowler and her maturation into a strong woman and skilled golfer. The approximately 176 page
account includes 84 tipped-in photographs. While it was likely written around 1985 when Canine was in her late 80s, it retains a clarity and
frankness that is refreshing for a woman of her era with progressive views on religion, race, and women’s role in society.
A compelling archive of a young amateur golfer during the first golden age of women’s golf.
Highlights:
1. Brown string-bound album with “My Memory
Book” on the first page. Folio. 40pp. 1939-1941.
The last page present but loose. Features a program
from the World’s Championship Challenge
Match exhibition at Grosse Pointe, Michigan on
September 23 and 24, 1941 at the Country Club
of Detroit and is Signed by Byron Nelson, Ben
Hogan, Craig Wood, and Jimmy Demaret. Also 13
programs from various shows Signed by conductors
Eugene Ormandy, Vladimir Golschmann, and
John Barbirolli; violist Joseph Szigeti; pianists Felix
Wolfes, Frank La Forge, and Ivor Newton; and
opera singers Charles Kullman, Bidu Sayão, Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons, Marjorie Lawrence,
Richard Bonelli, and John Brownlee. Plus 25 photos of high school classmates.
2. White string-bound album. Folio. 84pp. 1939-1944. Rear board detached. A hodgepodge of 46
photos, programs, and assorted ephemera. Included is an autographed photo of pianist Eugene List;
Signed programs of pianist Edward Kilenyi, violinists Jascha Heifetz, Albert Spalding, and Joseph
Szigeti; conductor Frederick Stock; program for the 1942 Ryder Cup challenge with match play slip for the final day laid in; program for the 1944
National Gold Championships at Edgewater Golf Club in Chicago with newspaper clipping about tournaments.
3. White screw-bound album. Oblong octavo. 76pp. 1942-1945. Front board lacking. An album containing 266 photos, of which 66 are golf
related, and nearly all are captioned. Included are 23 photos of the 1942 Ryder Cup exhibition match held at Oakland Hill Country Club in
Bloomfield, Michigan with photos of Hogan, Wood, Sarazen, Harold McSpaden, and others; 43 shots from the 1942-1944 Women’s Western
Amateurs featuring Sessions, Germain, Berg, and Zaharias, including one with her husband George; and the remainder of images from nursing
school, family, and pictures of V-J Day in Kalamazoo.
4. Red string-bound album. Oblong octavo. 72pp. 1945-1947. A few loose pages. An album featuring 167 photographs from the Michigan State
golf tournament held July 13-18, 1946 with shots of Sessions, Betty Jamesons, Horton Smith.