The Frances (Franny) Prindle Taft Collection documents Franny’s long career as a teacher of art history at the Cleveland Institute of Art, her involvement as a member of the board of trustees and Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and her long relationship with Vassar College, her alma mater. The collection also contains papers about Franny’s service in the first class of WAVES during World War II, and the creation of the first planned community of mid-century modern homes in Cleveland. Negatives, photographs, slides, and films provide visual context to many of Franny’s activities with friends and family, and her travels. The collection includes Franny’s beloved travel journals, which contain her stunning watercolors of places she visited.
This home movie features the first graduating class of WWII WAVES which included Franny Prindle Taft. It also features scenes of Mrs. Taft painting, and vignettes of her friends and family.
This home movie features the Prindle family on vacation at Mt. Kineo, Maine about 1929 and other family scenes.
This home movie features the Taft family at their summer home in Murray Bay, Canada, including a brief scene with William Howard Taft in a station wagon type car.
