Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Ruth Cates Baird papers consist of the personal and professional materials and papers that Baird collected over her lifetime. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs and scrapbooks collected by Baird. Some of the scrapbooks contain greeting cards and other keepsakes that she kept from her students and friends, magazine clippings, and poetry clipped from newspapers. The other scrapbooks contain maps, brochures, guides, photographs, collectibles, and other ephemera from the...