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Dillard, Avarene Lippincott. Papers of the Dillard family, 1717-1964.

Title: Papers of the Dillard family, 1717-1964.

The collection centers on the Southern black education efforts of James Hardy Dillard. Contents include correspondence (1905-1935) of Dillard, his diaries and journals (1919-1926), speeches and articles. There is considerable material regarding the Negro Rural School Fund, the Phelps-Stokes Fund, Washington, D.C. (also known as the Anna T. Jeanes Fund), the John F. Slater Fund, the Southern Education Board, and the General Education Board, as well as Dillard University, New Orleans, and William and Mary College, Williamsburg, where Dillard served as Rector (1917-1940). Other topics of interest are the Education Commission to East Africa (1923-1924), the University Commission on Southern Race Relations (1912-1927), and the Scottsboro case (1931-1933). The collection also contains personal and business papers of his second wife, Avarene Lippincott Budd Dillard, and their son, Hardy Cross Dillard. Published works by Dillard and genealogical information are also included. Among the correspondents are: Ray Stannard Baker, Stringfellow Barr, Mary McLeod Bethune, Benjamin Griffith Brawley, Wallace Buttrick, George Herbert Clarke, Philander Priestley Claxton, Virginius Dabney, Charles William Dabney, Jackson Davis, Westmoreland Davis, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Aloysius Farley, Francis Pendleton Gaines, Grace Elizabeth King, John La Farge, Arthur Selden Lloyd, Rayford W. Logan, Dumas Malone, Lucy Randolph Mason, Edwin Mims, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Josiah Morse, Robert Russa Moton, Edgar Garner Murphy, Nelson Olsen Nelson, John Lloyd Newcomb, Albert Jay Nock, Edward Washington Odum, Robert Curtis Ogden, Rosewell Page, Walter Hines Page, Robert William Patton, George Foster Peabody, Paul Norton Pearson, John Garland Pollard, John Davison Rockefeller, Wickliffe Rose, Julius Rosenwald, Josiah Ryce, Albert Shaw, Anson Phelps Stikes, William Howard Taft, Booker T. Washington, James Southall Wilson, and Carter G. Woodson.

ArchivalResource: ca. 19,400 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/67292750 View

Hench, Philip S., 1896-1965. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection, 1806-1995, bulk 1863-1974

Title: Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection 1806-1995

The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection documents the work of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission, the legacy of the commission’s discoveries, the lives of individuals who were connected to the commission, and twentieth century campaigns to shape public memory of the commission. Items in the collection date from 1800 to 1998, with the bulk of the items dating from 1864 to 1974. A wide range of formats are represented in the collection including, but not limited to the following: articles, artifacts, audiocassettes, bills (legislative records), biographies, charts (graphic documents), correspondence, diaries, editorials, interviews, journals (periodicals), magazines, maps, medical records, military records, negatives (photographic), notes, photographs, reports, reprints, scrapbooks, and speeches. Unique materials in the collection are supplemented with copies of original documents and photographs housed in other institutions (e.g the U.S. National Archives). Most of the materials in the collection were collected or created by Nobel laureate Philip Showalter Hench while researching the history of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission.

ArchivalResource: 67 linear feet; 153 boxes

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-hs/viuh00010.xml View

Heiser, Victor George, 1873-1972. Papers, ca. 1890-1972.

Title: Papers, ca. 1890-1972.

There is much correspondence, as well as reports, notebooks, lectures, diaries, photographs, and reprints. Heiser, who was a preeminent public health physician, created a rich archive of material documenting all phases of his career, especially the international health work of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1905-1934. There are voluminous, detailed, and interesting diaries for the whole course of this life (ca. 68 v., 1908-1972). There are notebooks reflecting on his early training and work (21 v., 1890-1907), and 3 volumes from lectures he attended at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia (grad., 1898).

ArchivalResource: ca. 25,000 items (ca. 30 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122616191 View

Victor (Victor George) Heiser papers, ca. 1890-1972, Circa 1890-1972

Title: Victor (Victor George) Heiser papers, ca. 1890-1972 Circa 1890-1972

There is much correspondence, as well as reports, notebooks, lectures, diaries, photographs, and reprints. Heiser, who was a preeminent public health physician, created a rich archive of material documenting all phases of his career, especially the international health work of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1913-1934. There are voluminous, detailed, and interesting diaries for the whole course of this life (ca. 68 v., 1908-1972). There are notebooks reflecting on his early training and work (21 v., 1890-1907), and 3 volumes from lectures he attended at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia (grad., 1898).

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet, Ca. 25,000 items

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International Education Board. Archives, 1923-1930.

Title: Archives, 1923-1930.

The collection includes personnel and fellowship files, traveling professorship records, correspondence, memoranda, charts, clippings and surveys. There is a corresponding photograph collection of 140 items.

ArchivalResource: 37 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154270109 View

Tate, W. K. (William Knox), 1870-1917. W.K. Tate papers, 1894-1952.

Title: W.K. Tate papers, 1894-1952.

Correspondence, reports, speeches, financial records, and other papers documenting W.K. Tate's contributions to educational improvement in S.C. during early decades of the 20th century, including fund-raising for construction and enhancement of schools for white and African-American children. Places represented include Charleston and York County, S.C.; Tennessee; Switzerland; and elsewhere; topics include rural schools, education for African American students, curriculum, and related issues. Institutions represented include Memminger Normal School (Charleston, S.C.), ca. 1898-1909, at which time Tate was appointed Assistant Superintendent of City Schools in Charleston and worked to improve the Colored Industrial School and the Mitchell School. A letter of 17 July 1908, from Seth Low, New York, advises Tate that he had been successful only in raising $5,000 pledged toward "an Industrial School building for Negroes, based upon the raising of not less than $20,000.00 and the agreement on the part of the City to support the school.... few people will give at my request unless I give myself, and... I am no longer in a position to give for such purposes on a large scale...." and urging more local support among the city of Charleston and the African American population of the city. Other letters dating from Sept. 1909 concern plans for building the industrial training school for African-Americans; undated report, "The Charleston Public Schools," presumably issued by Tate ca. 1909, mentions the Industrial School for Colored Children being erected at the corner of President and Fishburne streets, with the financial support of the Peabody Board of Trust, and Mr. Alfred T. White of New York City, and additional funds pledged by the Slater Fund. Between 1903 and 1910 Tate also taught in the Summer School of the South at Knoxville, Tenn., and he was actively involved with the formation of the Southern Branch of the American Peace League, being elected second vice-president and secretary in July 1909. A printed broadside from 1904, "Declaration of Principles," was issued by the Summer School of the South, under sponsorship of the General Education Board, and calls for consolidated and centralized school systems, reconstructed curriculum, rural libraries, and a central teachers college. In 1910 Tate became president of the South Carolina State Teachers' Association. In addition, he was a member of the State Board of Education from 1904 to 1910. In 1910, Tate was named State Supervisor of Elementary Rural Schools in South Carolina. The position was a new one, just having been created as a cooperative venture between the State Department of Education and the Peabody Education Board through its agent, Wickliffe Rose, who was a frequent correspondent throughout this period. Rose writes of the magnitude of the task to which Tate had been called. Tate recognized the challenge before him as well, responding in a letter of 5 Jan. 1910 that "the organization of the Rural School system in the state of South Carolina is a task which cannot be accomplished in a day. I should not like to have my work adjudged by the results of even the first five years, though I believe a great deal could be done in that space of time." A significant unit of letters (Dec. 1909 to June 1910) between Tate, Rose, University of South Carolina president Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Winthrop president David Bancroft Johnson, Superintendent of Education John Eldred Swearingen, and others discuss issues re questions of salary, travel funds, secretarial help, whether Tate would be attached to Winthrop or Carolina, and the suggestion that Tate was being considered for the presidency of Clemson, a matter in which the educator insisted he must "be assured of a practical unanimity in my selection." Colleagues urge Tate to remain in his current position to improve rural schools. Tate's enthusiasm for the rural schools job is revealed in a letter written on 5 February 1910 to Albert Pike Bourland, another Peabody associate. "I am heartily with you in the plan to make South Carolina a model for the south in her system of rural schools," Tate commented. "This state in many respects possesses points of superiority over every other southern state in its opportunities for such leadership. It is not so large and can be more easily and quickly reached from a central point." York County, S.C., was chosen as the demonstration county in rural supervision, with an aim to convince school officials in other counties of the value of appointing county supervisors. Tate surveyed rural school conditions throughout the state, held conferences with the trustees and patrons of many schools, and introduced measures to improve school facilities, lengthen school terms, stimulate county fairs and field days, consolidate schools, and relieve student transportation problems. Reports such as the "Comparative Statement of Enrollment in Typical Counties of South Carolina 1902 to 1910," provide information on numbers of white and African-American students in city and county schools, and the "Quarterly Report of W.K. Tate, State Supervisor of Elementary Rural Schools of South Carolina," issued on 9 May 1911 reveals that he was inspecting both African-American and white schools and documenting the schools and buildings photographically. Copies of the images reportedly were being sent to the appropriate county superintendent of education and to A.P. Bourland. Leila A. Russell, who had been appointed to supervise rural schools in York County, wrote on 1 Mar. 1912 to report on the conditions and attitudes she encountered as she visited schools throughout the county, which included indifference to school attendance shown by both the children of the average farmer and many teachers as well. In 1912 United States Commissioner of Education P.P. Claxton sent Tate to Switzerland to study the Swiss school system, and included among the collection are travel materials from the trip. Results of his international study were published by the United States Bureau of Education in 1914 under the title "Some Suggestive Features of the Swiss School System." In 1913 Tate was elected president of the Southern Educational Association, a leadership position from which he advocated the merger of the Southern Educational Association and the Conference for Education in the South. He was elected to the Professorship of Rural Education at George Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn., in 1914. While at Peabody he also lectured in Vanderbilt University's School of Religion.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. (unbound)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/642058978 View

Rockefeller Foundation. China Medical Board Records, 1913-1929.

Title: China Medical Board Records, 1913-1929.

This record group of the Rockefeller Foundation includes correspondence, administrative and financial records, minutes and reports retained by the Rockefeller Foundation after the China Medical Board was separately incorporated (1928).

ArchivalResource: 40 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154270219 View

Rose, Wickliffe, 1862-1931. Papers, 1902-1933.

Title: Papers, 1902-1933.

The collection includes correspondence, notes, poems, stories, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154270295 View