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Jones, Laurence Clifton, 1884-1975. Letter to Marcus Bach. Piney Woods, MS. 1950 June 15.

Title: Letter to Marcus Bach. Piney Woods, MS. 1950 June 15.

Expressing pleasure at having met Bach and inviting him to the Piney Woods school.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Jones, Grace Morris Allen, 1876-1928. Papers of Grace Morris Allen Jones, 1927-1975 (bulk 1927-1928).

Title: Papers of Grace Morris Allen Jones, 1927-1975 (bulk 1927-1928).

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233111998 View

Jones, Laurence Clifton, 1884-1975. Letters to Bertha Shambaugh, 1921-1930.

Title: Letters to Bertha Shambaugh, 1921-1930.

1) Thanking Mrs. Shambaugh for the box of clothing she sent to the Piney Woods Country Life School. Piney Woods, MS. 1921 May 3. 2) Thanking Mrs. Shambaugh for the box of clothing and odds and ends she sent to the Piney Woods Country Life School. [s.l.]. [1930?].

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122415239 View

Shambaugh family. Papers, 1886-1953.

Title: Papers, 1886-1953.

Papers of Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh (1871-1940), including correspondence, mss. of writings, biography, reports, speeches, lecture notes, photos, and other materials, relating to his career as a political science teacher at State University of Iowa (later University of Iowa), his interest in Iowa history, and his association with State Historical Society of Iowa; and papers of his wife, Bertha M.H. Shambaugh (1871-1953), author, including mss. of Amana (1908), Amana That Was and Amana That Is (1932), and other writings, speeches, 36 vols. of house books (ca. 1902-1941) consisting of notebooks containing Mrs. Shambaugh's records of events in the Shambaugh household, photos, and other materials; together with papers of Alma Hovey, relating to her research and notes made in preparation of the biography of Benjamin F. Shambaugh. Major correspondents include Zoe Akins, Julian P. Boyd, John Drinkwater, Hamlin Garland, Laurence C. Jones, Thomas H. Macbride, and W.W. Waymack.

ArchivalResource: 47 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28412553 View

Jones, Laurence Clifton, 1884-1975. Letter to Karl LeCompte. Piney Woods, MS. 1964 Feb. 17.

Title: Letter to Karl LeCompte. Piney Woods, MS. 1964 Feb. 17.

Concerning a recent contribution Le Compte made to Piney Woods School.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233099117 View

Strickland, Charles Edwin, 1892-1973. Papers of Charles E. Strickland, 1937-1972.

Title: Papers of Charles E. Strickland, 1937-1972.

The papers of Charles E. Strickland document his business, political, and civic interests with correspondence and subject files. His many business interests range from People's Gas and Electric Company of Mason City to Iowa Terminal Railroad. Correspondents include Norman Erbe, H.R. Gross, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Laurence C. Jones, Thomas E. Martin, and James Schramm. Also included are biographical materials, and speeches as well as information concerning the Lincoln Club and Mason City, Iowa.

ArchivalResource: 756 items, (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233115422 View

Scott, Margaret Helen, 1898-. Papers. 1866-1987.

Title: Papers. 1866-1987.

Librarian and teacher at American Missionary Association's Lincoln Normal School, Marion, Ala. Contains correspondence; her history of early Richland County, Wisconsin; an autobiography; slides, press clippings (photocopies), and other items. Correspondents include Frederick Leslie Brownlee, Lee and Marie de Forest, and Laurence C. Jones principal of Piney Woods Country Life School in Mississippi. The collection also includes 302 slides regarding Talladega.

ArchivalResource: 1 OS Box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20287394 View

Ames, Jessie Daniel, 1883-1972. Black history ephemera, 1903-1977.

Title: Black history ephemera, 1903-1977.

The collection contains programs and pamphlets for literary, social, and political activities involving African Americans. Organizations represented are Associated Charities, Inc., Washington, D.C. (donation card; public play grounds call for volunteers, 1903; solicitation letter); Pleasant Plains Civic Association constitution and by-laws (Washington, D.C., 1940); National Negro Congress, Official proceedings, Chicago, Feb. 14-16, 1936; Grand Avenue Church pamphlet. Publications include Elizabeth Lawson's 20 years on the chain gang? (New York: International Labor Defense, 1935) concerning Angelo Herndon; Up through difficulties (Braxton, Miss.: Piney Woods Country Life School, 1913), the autobiography of Laurence Clifton Jones; Equality, land and freedom, a program for Negro liberation (New York: League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Nov. 1933); 8 steps to peace in Kamerun (Kumba, Southern Cameroon, [1961]); Southern leaders impeach Judge Lynch (Atlanta, Ga.: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, [1932?]). Also, Jessie Daniel Ames's Southern women and lynching (Atlanta, Ga.: Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, revised and reprinted Oct. 1936); Jim Crow "justice" in Korea, the case of Lieutenant Leon Gilbert (New York: Trade Union Youth Committee for the Freedom of Lieut. Gilbert, n.d.); brochure for the Conference Planning Committee for United Minorities, Chicago, Feb. 11-12, 1944; Journal of progress, National Negro Industrial Exposition celebrating the progess of the colored race, New York, June 1 to Oct. 31, [1927]. Souvenir program and score card, Masonic Field Day baseball game and Eastern Star Pageant, July 23, 1921, American League Park, Washington, D.C.; U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Convention dates of Negro associations, Bulletin no. 2, Feb. 1938; circular letter: [Grover] Cleveland in favor of mixed schools; quiz on famous black Americans including a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks; two handbills: Speak out against campus spying, April 12, 1977 [University of Pennsylvania], and African drama, comp. lit. 422 [Penn State University]. Roland Hayes (recital programs, Penn State, 1946, and St. Louis, Mo., 1943; publicity brochure, 1943); Paul Robeson (Theatre Guild presents Paul Robeson in Othello, Oct. 19, 1943, handbill and ticket order form; obituary in Bulletin of the Center for Soviet & East European Studies, Spring 1976); University Place Book Shop catalogs (black writing (2), Afro-American poetry); Black literature and arts congress, vol. 1, no. 2 (poems and short stories); interview with Arnold Adoff reprinted from Top of the news, Jan. 1972. The Eastern searchlight (Laurinburg Normal and Industrial Institute, Laurinburg, N.C.) vol. 16, no. 7, April 1937, concerning teachers' salaries; and a glossy print reproduction of a pen-and-ink drawing by Lois M. Jones, 1975.

ArchivalResource: 33 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51797889 View

Jones, Laurence Clifton, 1884-1975. Letter to Benjamin and Bertha Shambaugh. Piney Woods, MS. 1936 Oct. 29.

Title: Letter to Benjamin and Bertha Shambaugh. Piney Woods, MS. 1936 Oct. 29.

Thanking the Shambaughs in poetic form for their donation to the Piney Woods Country Life School.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122518093 View

Macbride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston), 1848-1934. Papers of Thomas H. Macbride, 1845-1954.

Title: Papers of Thomas H. Macbride, 1845-1954.

The papers of Thomas H. Macbride relate to his career as a professor and president (1914-1916) of the University of Iowa. There are nine boxes of correspondence, dating from 1869 to 1927, of both a personal and professional nature. Included are letters from: Paul Bartsch, Charles E. Bessey, W.R. Boyd, Jay N. Darling, Harvey Ingham, Laurence C. Jones, Frank O. Lowden, G.W. Martin, Louis H. Pammel, and Gifford Pinchot. More correspondents include: Carl E. Seashore, Fred J. Seaver, Benjamin F. Shambaugh, Bertha M.H. Shambaugh, Bohumil Shimek, John Springer, and Robert B. Wylie. Macbride's work as botanist is reflected in items such as speeches and lectures he delivered, articles he wrote, notebooks he kept, and his Iowa Lakeside Laboratory research. Also included are diaries and newspaper clippings. Other family members are included in the Macbride papers. For instance, there are diaries and notebooks kept by Harriet D. Macbride and compositions written by Jean Macbride.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear ft., (15 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233108192 View