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Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.). Records, 1883 - 1945 [microform].

Title: Records, 1883 - 1945 [microform].

Records documenting names of students enrolled and their parents, visitors and guests, expenses and other financial records, including investments in maintainance and repairs to campus buildings. Guest register, 1883 - 1887; attendance registers, 1888 - 1894, 1896 - 1901, 1901 - 1903, 1912 - 1915; fee book, 1889 - 1894, showing pupil taxes paid; roll of students, 1911 - 1926, listing names of parents and places of residence; grade book, 1921 - 1938; cash payment and receipt books, 1938 - 1939, 1939 - 1940, and 1939 - 1941, recording costs of constructing and repairing school buildings; and laundry account book, 1941 - 1943. Volume, 1942 - 1945, recording contributions of clothing and toys; and minute book, 1938 - 1941, of the Royal Aikenite Club, an African American social organization.

ArchivalResource: 14 v.

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Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914. Branson-Jackson Family Papers, 1794-1962.

Title: Branson-Jackson Family Papers, 1794-1962.

Correspondence, journals, and memorabilia of Anna M. Jackson and her daughter, Anna M. Theiss. It also includes related materials of the Davis, Price, Jackson, and Fox families, as well as some correspondence of William M. Jackson and memorabilia of Anna F. and Myron Lewis Boardman. There are significant materials relating to prison reform, women's suffrage, peace, and equal rights for African-Americans in New York City in the late 19th century, Quaker activities throughout the period, the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in the late 19th century, and Swarthmore College in the 1890's and the 1930's. Correspondents include Mrs. Sarah J. Bird, Samuel J. Barrows, Kate Bond, Joel Bean, Elizabeth Powell Bond, William W. Birdsall, Cornelia Bowen, Antoinette Blackwell, Ellen Collins, Anna J. Cooper, Grace H. Dodge, W.E.B. DuBois, Phebe A. Hanaford, Cornelia Hancock, Josephine Shaw Lowell, Jacob A. Riis, Belle de Rivera, Theodore Roosevelt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Schofield, Fanny G. Villard, Stephen Samuel Wise, and Booker T. Washington.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

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Schofield, Martha, 1839-1916. Papers, 1853-1944 1856-1916 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1853-1944 1856-1916 (bulk).

This collection contains biographical information, personal correspondence (1856-1916), and writings of Martha Schofield, a Pennsylvania teacher who taught freed blacks in South Carolina and founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S.C. Also included are financial and legal papers and School bulletins, annual reports, and some other papers. Her diaries date from 1858-1903 with some gaps. Correspondents include Martha Schofield's extended family and Susan B. Anthony.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes ; 3 linear ft.

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Papers of the Edwards, Dawkins, and Battise families, 1867-1938.

Title: Papers of the Edwards, Dawkins, and Battise families, 1867-1938.

Chiefly family correspondence re school, church, and Masonic activities including invitation, 3 June 1886, for commencement exercises at Schofield Normal and Industrial School, Aiken, S.C.; letter, 15 Feb. 1888, from Rev. Isaac Holland to Rev. T.W.D. Ward, Bishop of the South Carolina A.M.E. Conference, Aiken, S.C., re removal of Rev. W.R. Beamer, explaining the disapproval of his former congregations at his removal, and requesting his reinstatement; letter, 26 Sept 1889, from H[arriet] F. E[dwards] Battise, to "Hardy," Saint Matthews, S.C., re Sarah Battise's unexplained departure to Aiken, S.C. Letter, 17 Jan., 1898, Columbia, S.C., from Sarah Battise to L.R. Rivers, New York, N.Y., re L.R. Rivers' search for work as a housekeeper; letter, 6 Jan. 1913, New York, N.Y., from John T. Hall, Music Publishing Company to Harriet F.E. Battise, re publishing song lyrics scored by H.F.E. Battise; letter, 8 July 1913, New York, N.Y., from J.T. Hall to Harriet F.E. Battise, re Battise's contract with the J.T. Hall Music Publishing Company, royalties, and other artist's work. Letter, 1 April 1915, Washington, D.C., from Robert S. Lacey to Sarah E. Avery, Columbia, S.C., re purchase of sewing machine patent by U.S. and Canadian manufacturers; certificate, 1 Jan. 1918, Michigan, from John Bell and Robert Lee to James Dawkins, re membership in the Most Worshipful Sovereign Grand Lodge, A.F. and A. Masons; and undated drafts of short story, by Sarah E. Avery, "Jen's Hope Chest."

ArchivalResource: 100 items.

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Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.). Schofield Normal and Industrial School collection, 1857-1986.

Title: Schofield Normal and Industrial School collection, 1857-1986.

Consisting of correspondence, reports, programs, minutes, photographs, news clippings, and various printed materials documenting the history of this school for African Americans in Aiken, S.C.; its successor, Martha Schofield High School; and founder, teacher, and manager Martha Schofield (1839-1916). Collection also includes sample copies of items published by the school's Job-Press, 1879-1906; school related periodicals; and constitution of the Schofield School Literary Society. Correspondents include African-American doctor Matilda Evans, Strom Thurmond, school board members and supporters and former students, and Slater Fund regional administrator. Correspondence, 1856-1968 and 1985-1986 (folders 1-94); undated correspondence (folders 95-108); list of correspondents (folder 108); Martha Schofield biographical information (folder 109); minutes of meetings of Board of Trustees and faculty, school bulletins, 1943 calendar, Centennial Celebration, fa

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft. (1 carton)

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Schofield, Martha. Ash-Schofield Family Papers, 1796-1939.

Title: Ash-Schofield Family Papers, 1796-1939.

This collection consists of family papers, correspondence, and memorabilia, largely of a domestic nature. Includes some description of Quaker meetings and religious journeys, of the activities of Samuel S. Ash in engineering and business, references to the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, NC, of which Martha Schofield, a correspondent, was manager, and student life at Swarthmore College in the 1890's from the perspective of Mary S. Ash.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

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Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.). Records, 1870-1957.

Title: Records, 1870-1957.

Correspondence, minutes of board of trustees (1886-1942), legal documents including deeds (1870-1952), financial records, printed bulletins, programs, catalogs, drawings, pictures, and reference materials.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26888460 View