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Southern Education Board. Southern Education Board records, 1898-1925.

Title: Southern Education Board records, 1898-1925.

Correspondence, reports, minutes, scrapbooks, and other papers of the Southern Education Board and related organizations concerning the promotion of public education and also of agriculture and rural community in the South in the early twentieth century. The early papers concern the annual meetings of the Conference for Education in the South and the work of the Southern Education Board in supporting the development of rural schools and communities. After 1914, the records also include material on the reorganization of the Conference and Southern Education Board and the activities of related organizations, including the Southern Conference for Education and Industry, the Southern Educational Association, and the Southern Education Society. There are reports on a wide variety of subjects, including rural conditions, education, African Americans, women, community, and other subjects. Also included are the papers of George Sherwood Dickerman, which relate particularly to African American education, 1900-1910.

ArchivalResource: About 6000 items (21.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26380364 View

Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Title: Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Letters from various correspondents to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page concerning his editorial work and his interest in education in the South.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01471/catalog View

Frances Benjamin Johnston Papers, 1855-1956, (bulk 1890-1945)

Title: Frances Benjamin Johnston Papers 1855-1956 (bulk 1890-1945)

Photographer and illustrator. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, financial papers, family papers, clippings, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Johnston's career as a photographer of national figures and events, her photography of gardens and estates, compilation of a photographic record of Southern colonial architecture, participation in international exhibitions, travels and personal life, and the emerging role of women in the profession of photography

ArchivalResource: 19,000 items; 50 containers plus 1 oversize; 21.2 linear feet; 37 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010298 View

Papers of Professor Henry William Wilder Foote and Family, 1714-1959

Title: Papers of Professor Henry William Wilder Foote and Family, 1714-1959

Papers of Daniel Appleton White (1776-1861); wives; children including of daughter Mary Wilder Foote (1810-1857) and son William Orne White (1821-1911), William's wife, Margaret Harding White, and their children. Papers of Caleb Foote (1803-1894), his children including sons, Arthur William Foote (1853-1937) and Henry Wilder Foote (1838-1889), Henry's wife, Frances Ann Eliot Foote (1838-1896), and children. Papers of Henry Wilder Foote II (1875-1964), son of Henry Wilder Foote, of his wife Eleanor Tyson Cope Foote (b. 1879), and son Arthur Foote (II). Miscellaneous papers of ancestral families of Henry Wilder Foote II and William Orne White, including the Deadmans, the Eliots, the Flaggs, the Footes, the Haynes, the Lymans, the Ornes, the Wests, the Whites, and the Wilders.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00575/catalog View

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Papers of Booker T. Washington: series 1-6, 1864-1960 (inclusive), [microform].

Title: Papers of Booker T. Washington: series 1-6, 1864-1960 (inclusive), [microform].

The papers consist of correspondence which documents both the personal and professional life of Booker T. Washington. The first three series contain letters with family members and personal friends and individuals with whom Washington developed a sustained and frequent correspondence. Series Four, General Correspondence, includes letters relating to Washington's position as principal of Tuskegee Institute and as a widely recognized black leader. Correspondents of note in this series include Wallace Buttrick, Andrew Carnegie, George Washington Carver, James C. Clarkson, James H. Dillard, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Charles W. Eliot, T. Thomas Fortune, Hollis B. Frissell, Abraham Grant, Leigh Hunt, Seth Low, Fred R. Moore, Robert R. Moton, E. Gardner Murphy, Robert C. Ogden, Walter Hines Page, George F. Peabody, John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, Julius Rosenwald, Emmett J. Scott, Anson Phelps Stokes, William Howard Taft, Victor H. Tulane, and Oswald Garrison Villard.

ArchivalResource: 762 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702691996 View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

Wertenbaker, Charles Poindexter, 1860-1916. Letterbooks of Dr. Charles P. Wertenbaker, 1889-1913.

Title: Letterbooks of Dr. Charles P. Wertenbaker, 1889-1913.

The letterbooks contain correspondence and scattered articles and speeches concerning his efforts to combat yellow fever and smallpox, improve sanitation in the South, and reduce tuberculosis among Southern blacks. Correspondents include Rupert Blue, U.S. Surgeon-General; William S. Dodd and Hollis B. Frissell, Hampton Institute; James B. Dudley, North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College; Livingston Farrand, Executive Secretary, National Associationfor the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; R.A. Hubard, Vice-president, North Carolina Mutual and Provident Society. Morgan E. Norris, Lincoln University; Truman A. Parker, Executive Secretary, Virginia Anti-Tuberculosis Association; Charles A. Phipps, University of Pennsylvania; Franklin A. Sams, U.S. Marine Hospital Service; Senator Oscar W. Underwood; Surgeon-General Walter Wyman; Ennion G. Williams, Virginia Commissioner of Health; and N.B. Young, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College.

ArchivalResource: 6 v. : ca. 900 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136362 View

Letters sent to Walter Hines Page from various correspondents, English period, 1876-1937.

Title: Letters sent to Walter Hines Page from various correspondents, English period, 1876-1937.

Letters to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page from various correspondents concerning his diplomatic service.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (11.88 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00275/catalog View

Robert C. Ogden Papers, 1843-1913, (bulk 1890-1913)

Title: Robert C. Ogden Papers 1843-1913 (bulk 1890-1913)

Businessman and philanthropist. Correspondence, memoranda, notes and drafts of articles and speeches, reports, and printed matter primarily concerned with Ogden's business career, his interests in philanthropy and religion, and his activities on behalf of education in the South.

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items; 30 containers; 12 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012139 View

Penn School Papers, 1862-2004 and undated (bulk 1862-1978)

Title: Penn School Papers, 1862-2004 and undated (bulk 1862-1978)

The Penn School on Saint Helena Island, S.C., was founded during the Civil War by northern philanthropists and white missionaries for former enslaved individuals in an area occupied by the United States Army. Over the years, with continuing philanthropic support, it served as school, health agency, and cooperative society for rural African Americans of the Sea Islands. The first principals were Laura M. Towne and Ellen Murray, followed around 1908 by Rossa B. Cooley and Grace B. House, and in 1944 by Howard Kester and Alice Kester. The school closed in 1948 and became Penn Community Services in 1951, with Courtney Siceloff as the first director. The original deposits are papers, mostly 1900-1950 and primarily correspondence of the directors and of the trustees, treasurers, and publicity workers located elsewhere, and photographs. Topics include emancipation, African American education, Reconstruction, political and social change in South Carolina, agricultural extension work, public health issues, damage from hurricanes, World War I and World War II, the boll weevil and the cotton industry, the effects of the Great Depression on the school and the local population, changes in the school leading to a greater emphasis on social action in the outer world, and the end of the school and the turn to community service. Volumes include diaries, extracts from letters, recollections, minutes of the board of trustees, ledgers, cashbooks, inventories, financial records, registers of students and teachers, and minutes of various clubs and societies. Printed materials consists of newspapers clippings, pamphlets, promotional literature, school materials, administrative circulars, and annual reports. There are also about 3,000 photographs in the collection, dating from the 1860s to 1953 (bulk 1905-1944), documenting school activities, Island scenes and Islanders, classes and teachers, baptisms, agricultural activities, parades, fairs, and special events at the Penn School. The Addition of November 2012 includes papers, volumes, printed materials, photographs, audio recordings, and film that are similar in scope and content to the original deposit. Also included is a copy of De Nyew Testament, the Gullah translation of the New Testament (2005).

ArchivalResource: 38.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 15,500 items)

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/p/Penn_School.html View

Shaw University. Office of the President. Charles F. Meserve records, 1895-1919 (bulk 1904-1906).

Title: Charles F. Meserve records, 1895-1919 (bulk 1904-1906).

Papers and records of Charles F. Meserve, second president of Shaw University (1894-1919).

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70970022 View

Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922. Papers of the Barringer family [manuscript], 1828-1963.

Title: Papers of the Barringer family [manuscript], 1828-1963.

The collection consists of correspondence, legal and financial documents, literary manuscripts, genealogical material, newsclippings, photographs and keepsake items, certificates and commissions, printed articles and pamphlets, monographs and broadsides. The papers pertain chiefly to Paul Brandon Barringer and other members of his family, most notably General Rufus Barringer and Victor C. Barringer, with some scattered items of Daniel Laurens Barringer, Daniel Moreau Barringer and Anna Barringer. The bulk of the material is personal. Topics include Paul Barringer's unsuccessful attempt to be appointed Secretary of Agriculture, his racial views, his ophthalmology practice, his invention of a fire extinguisher, and charges brought against him the the V.P.I. Alumni Association Welfare Committee; Rufus Barringer's Civil War imprisonment at Ft. Delaware; slave sales, and boarding school life in the the 1870s; Georgia O'Keeffe; the family home "Gravel Hill," Charlotte County, Va. Of interest are copies of letters from Stonewall Jackson, letters concerning Theodore Roosevelt's 1903 visit to the University of Virginia, and theatre broadsides featuring Edwin Booth in leading roles. Genealogical data is included for the Brandon, Graham, Hannah, Massey, Morrison, Spragins, Washington and Woodson families. Correspondents include Edwin A. Alderman, Harry F. Byrd, John Armstrong Cahloner, Lenoir Chambers, William A. Clark, Hugh S. Cumming, Charles W. Dabney, John Dalzell, Josephus Daniels, Noah K. Davis, R. T. W. Duke, E. C. Glass, Carter Glass, Armistead C. Gordon, Hugh S. Johnson, Fitzhugh lee, Andrew J. Montague, R. Walton Moore, and John L. Newcomb. Also Robert C. Ogden, Lee S. Overman, Thomas Nelson Page, Thomas W. Page, William L. Phelps, John F. Rixey, Albert Shaw, C. Alphonso Smith, Claude A. Swanson, Benjamin R. Tillman, J. Hoge Tyler, Oscar W. Underwood, Henry A. Wallace and John Sharp Williams. Corresponding with Paul B. Barringer over racial matters are Lyman Abbott, Frank P. Brent, John W. Daniel, H. B. Frissell, Armistead C. Gordon, Thomas W. Harrison, Hilary A. Herbert, Edgar G. Murphy, Clarence Poe, Charles D. Warner and Booker T. Washington.

ArchivalResource: 2830 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647900893 View

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Papers of Booker T. Washington: series 1-4, 1864-1960 (inclusive), [microform].

Title: Papers of Booker T. Washington: series 1-4, 1864-1960 (inclusive), [microform].

The papers consist of correspondence which documents both the personal and professional life of Booker T. Washington. The first three series contain letters with family members and personal friends and individuals with whom Washington developed a sustained and frequent correspondence. Series Four, General Correspondence, includes letters relating to Washington's position as principal of Tuskegee Institute and as a widely recognized black leader. Correspondents of note in this series include Wallace Buttrick, Andrew Carnegie, George Washington Carver, James C. Clarkson, James H. Dillard, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Charles W. Eliot, T. Thomas Fortune, Hollis B. Frissell, Abraham Grant, Leigh Hunt, Seth Low, Fred R. Moore, Robert R. Moton, E. Gardner Murphy, Robert C. Ogden, Walter Hines Page, George F. Peabody, John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, Julius Rosenwald, Emmett J. Scott, Anson Phelps Stokes, William Howard Taft, Victor H. Tulane, and Oswald Garrison Villard.

ArchivalResource: 388 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122543393 View

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947. Papers of Jackson Davis, 1910-1947.

Title: Papers of Jackson Davis, 1910-1947.

Papers of Jackson Davis, include correspondence, photographs and travel journals, and pertain chiefly to his travels and his work with the General Education Board and the Virginia State Board of Education. Papers from the General Education Board include Davis's 1946 address at the unveiling of a bust of Booker T. Washington at New York University; and statistical summaries on Alabama counties. Davis's diaries/travel journals, 1911, 1913, as state agent for Negro Schools for the Virginia State Board of Education describe his tours through Virginia visiting African American schools and colleges, and discuss the education of African-Americans. Among the schools discussed are Hampton Institute and Virginia Union University. Among the people mentioned are John Stewart Bryan, Wallace Buttrick, A.B. Chandler, Jr., Caroline Preston Davis, K.C. Davis, J. Hardy Dillard, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Hollis Burke Frissell, John Manuel Gandy, Leslie Pinckney Hill, George Rice Hovey, Joseph Leonard Jarman, Charles W. Kent, Charles Gilmore Maphis, Edwin Mims, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Bruce Ryburn Payne, George Foster Peabody, Virginia Randolph, Wickliffe Rose, R.C. Stearnes, and Willis Duke Weatherford. Letters from Davis, 1942-1945, describes travels in Colombia, Peru, Nigeria, Belgian Congo, and Liberia. Specific topics include mission work, war-time Liberia, Achimota College, native "pagan" customs, and Islamic influence. Thomas White Young is mentioned. With these is a journal from the 1942 trip to South America to consider educational opportunities and needs in Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Photographs depict Davis, G.E.B. members, the Jackson Davis Elementary school, Charles E. Diehl and Sir William Beveridge. The collection also contains a series of letters to Helen M. Davis, 1926, describing a European tour; the travel journal of Corrine M. Davis, 1935, describing a voyage to the Canary Islands, around the coast of Africa to Palestine and across the Mediterranean to Italy and France; and a letter fragment from Jackson Davis discussing parts of the voyage. With these is a genealogical chart of the Davis family given by Joseph T. Davis. There are also essays by Alan Gregg "Future in Europe," 1940, predicting political and economic outcomes of the Second World War, and "Statement on Social Medicine," 1943, advocating socialized medicine. The collection also contains letters of condolence on his death and clippings regarding him, chiefly obituaries.

ArchivalResource: 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50863160 View

Booker T. Washington Papers, 1853-1946, (bulk 1900-1915)

Title: Booker T. Washington Papers 1853-1946 (bulk 1900-1915)

African-American leader, educator, and author. Correspondence, memoranda, book drafts and notes, articles, speeches, reports, minutes, financial papers, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to the early history and administration of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881, as well as to the National Negro Business League which he organized in 1900, the General Education Board, New York, N.Y., Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., other African-American schools, education in general, and Washington's personal and family life.

ArchivalResource: 375,550 items; 1074 containers; 429.2 linear feet; 762 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998017 View