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Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Dillard, J. H. (James Hardy), 1856-1940. Papers of James Hardy Dillard [manuscript], 1878-1939, n.d.

Title: Papers of James Hardy Dillard [manuscript], 1878-1939, n.d.

Notes for a lecture, "Julius Caesar as a man of letters," and a combination diary/address/travel expense book. The diary details an 1878 trip to New York with a description of a church service conducted by Henry Ward Beecher at Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647806738 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

Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939. Papers of Benjamin Griffith Brawley, 1928-1938.

Title: Papers of Benjamin Griffith Brawley, 1928-1938.

Chiefly correspondence with James Hardy Dillard. Other correspondents include Anson Phelps Stokes, Leo M Favrot, and Trevor Arnett. Most of the correspondence concerns Brawley's biography, "Doctor Dillard of the Jeanes Fund." Other topics mentioned include Shaw University, Howard University, the Jeanes and Slater Funds, the General Education Board and Dillard University. Of interest is a letter, 1936 March 3, in which Brawley discusses his collecting of "Negro literature."

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68940733 View

Pierre Jay papers, 1920-1930, 1925-1930

Title: Pierre Jay papers 1920-1930 1925-1930

Correspondence, reports, and other papers of Pierre Jay, banker and Deputy Agent General for Reparations in Berlin from December, 1926 to May, 1930. These papers deal primarily with the Dawes Plan for collecting reparations from Germany following World War I and consist mainly of reports, minutes, and printed materials related to the work of the Economic Service section of the Transfer Committee.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear feet (22 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0660 View

Davison, Dexter Ralph. The origins and goals of the church schools in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia [manuscript], 1980.

Title: The origins and goals of the church schools in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia [manuscript], 1980.

The paper describes "origins and primary goals of the Church Schools in the Diocese of Virginia," sketches the influence of Robert A. Gibson, William Cabell Brown, and James Hardy Dillard, and discusses whether goals have been met and future challenges facing the schools.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647988572 View

Malone, Dumas, 1892-1986. Documents and notes made for his life of Edwin A. Alderman [manuscript].

Title: Documents and notes made for his life of Edwin A. Alderman [manuscript].

Including copies of his correspondence with Emma Graves Alderman, Kate L. Alderman, C.B. Aycock, Brown Ayres, Page M. Baker, Edwin R. Baldwin, Paul B. Barringer, George Gordon Battle, John D. Bellamy, John Stewart Bryan, Nicholas Murray Butler, Andrew Carnegie, E.B. Craighead, Lamar Monroe Curry, Charles William Dabney, Frank B. Dancy, George H. Demy, J.H. Dillard, Charles W. Eliot, A.W. Erickson, Charles E. Fenner, Thomas Staples Fuller, W.W. Fuller, J.B. Gilder, Louis Graves, Mrs. Hector M. Green, Louis Hamman, W.T. Harris, Halstead S. Hedges, Dayton H. Hoge, E.M. House, J.Y. Joynes, Susan B. Keene, Charles Duncan McIver, Elis P. Moore, Edward P. Moses, Edgar Garden Murphy, M.C.S. Noble, Walter Hines Page, George Foster Peabody, J. Woods Price, Mrs. M. Garnett Saunders, Harvey M. Smith, Charles P. Smith, Eugene Stevenson, Theodore Roosevelt, Gov. Henry Carter Stuart, William Howard Taft, Ida M. Tarbell, E.S. Trudeau, Booker T. Washington, Alice Saunders West, Edwin M. Wilson, Hugh Wilson, Thomas Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647960447 View

Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943. Collection of miscellaneous printed material relating to American schools and teachers, from the Records of the Charlottesville City School Board.

Title: Collection of miscellaneous printed material relating to American schools and teachers, from the Records of the Charlottesville City School Board. <1932-1964>

ArchivalResource: 9 pieces : ill. ; 31 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435982098 View

Papers of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, 1900-1961

Title: Papers of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, 1900-1961

This collection provides information about Charlotte Hawkins Brown's life and activities, about Palmer Memorial Institute, and particularly about Brown's continuing struggle to enlarge the school, the financial problems she encountered, and her constant fund-raising efforts.

ArchivalResource: 2.84 linear feet ((3+1/2 file boxes, 1 folio+ box) plus 4 oversize folders, 2 folio+ folders, 4 reels of microfilm)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00160/catalog View

Jay, Pierre, 1870-1949. Pierre Jay papers, 1920-1930 (inclusive), 1925-1930 (bulk).

Title: Pierre Jay papers, 1920-1930 (inclusive), 1925-1930 (bulk).

Correspondence, reports, and other papers of Pierre Jay, banker and Deputy Agent General for Reparations in Berlin from December, 1926 to May, 1930. These papers deal primarily with the Dawes Plan for collecting reparations from Germany following World War I and consist mainly of reports, minutes, and printed materials related to the work of the Economic Service section of the Transfer Committee.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (22 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702168700 View

Stephens, Edwin Lewis, 1872-1938. Edwin Lewis Stephens correspondence, 1889-1940.

Title: Edwin Lewis Stephens correspondence, 1889-1940.

Correspondence of Edwin Lewis Stephens principally concerns Stephens' duties as president of Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute, his personal relationships with friends, and secondary and higher education in Louisiana. Included are numerous letters from E.S. Benton, who reminisces about cadet days with Stephens at Louisiana State Agricultural and Mechanical College in Baton Rouge, La., describes army life at Ft. Monroe, Va., and relays news of family members' marriages and deaths; and several letters from Stella Benton Vaughan, Benton's daughter, concerning her father's death and his friendship with Stephens. Another equally large group of letters is from J.H. Dillard, professor of Latin at Tulane University and later an associate of the John F. Slater Fund, an organization that worked to promote the education of African Americans in the Southern U.S. Dillard's letters describe travels to Europe and elsewhere, discuss various educational topics, and report news of family members. Offprints of several of Dillard's articles on educational subjects accompany the correspondence. The largest group of letters is by Thomas D. Boyd, then president of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. The letters concern Stephens' graduate studies in pedagogy at New York University, job prospects for Stephens at local universities, recommendations of candidates for faculty teaching positions at Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College and other state schools, Stephens' duties at Northwestern State College of Louisiana and later at Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute, academic conferences and symposia, state funding of Louisiana universities, and other issues related to higher education in Louisiana.

ArchivalResource: 304 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316525242 View

Yaddo records, 1870-1980

Title: Yaddo records 1870-1980

Yaddo is an artists' community located in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Yaddo Records contain the administrative records of The Corporation of Yaddo since its establishment in 1900, as well as the institutional records of Yaddo from 1926, the year Yaddo began accepting guests. Notable guests have included Newton Arvin, John Cheever, Aaron Copland, Malcom Cowley, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, and Clyfford Still. The Yaddo Records also include the personal papers of Yaddo's principal founders, Spencer and Katrina Trask, and George Foster Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 190 linear feet; 550 boxes, 51 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4795 View

William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Title: William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Journal reprints on evolutionary biology.

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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM06776-D.xml View

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

Snavely, Tipton R. (Tipton Ray), 1890-. Correspondence of Tipton Ray Snavely [manuscript] 1915-71.

Title: Correspondence of Tipton Ray Snavely [manuscript] 1915-71.

The correspondence covers Snavely's academic career at U. Va. The Snavely chair in economics, his books, the Snavely library and the Snavely prize in economics are mentioned. Many of the letters congratulate Snavely on various achievements in his career. Correspondents include Charles Cortez Abbot, Edwin Anderson Alderman, Westmoreland Davis, James Hardy Dillard, Thomas Walker Page, Edwin Austin Gassage Robinson, Lindsay Rogers, Edgar Finley Shannon, Charles Alphonso Smith, Edward Reilly Stettinius, Frank William Taussig, & David McCord Wright.

ArchivalResource: 82 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647941341 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

Nannie Helen Burroughs Papers, 1900-1963, (bulk 1928-1960)

Title: Nannie Helen Burroughs Papers 1900-1963 (bulk 1928-1960)

Educator, religious leader, and advocate for African American rights. Correspondence, financial records, memoranda, notebooks, speeches and writings, subscription and literature orders, student records, and other papers relating primarily to Burroughs's founding and management of the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington, D.C., and to her activities with the Woman's Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America.

ArchivalResource: 110,000 items; 342 containers plus 19 oversize; 134.4 linear feet; 5 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003010 View

Papers of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, 1900-1961

Title: Papers of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, 1900-1961

This collection provides information about Charlotte Hawkins Brown's life and activities, about Palmer Memorial Institute, and particularly about Brown's continuing struggle to enlarge the school, the financial problems she encountered, and her constant fund-raising efforts.

ArchivalResource: 2.84 linear feet ((3+1/2 file boxes, 1 folio+ box) plus 4 oversize folders, 2 folio+ folders, 4 reels of microfilm)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00160/catalog 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

Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Title: Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Papers of American author, journalist, editor, and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Includes materials that are unsorted and uncataloged.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear feet (169 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00082/catalog View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1874-1958. Anson Phelps Stokes family papers, 1761-1960 (inclusive), 1892-1958 (bulk).

Title: Anson Phelps Stokes family papers, 1761-1960 (inclusive), 1892-1958 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, subject files, memorabilia, photographs, financial records, and other papers detailing the professional career and personal life of Anson Phelps Stokes and family members, including Olivia, Caroline and Helen Stokes. Papers relating to Anson Phelps Stokes document his work with prominent educators, reformers, religious leaders, businessmen, and politicians. Stokes's work on behalf of black education, social issues, and the Phelps-Stokes Fund are detailed. His religious activities, Yale University work, and family interests are also represented, as are Stokes's work on behalf of the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905 and the Yale-China Association. Papers relating to Helen Phelps Stokes include material relating to the Socialist Party and the National Civil Liberties Bureau.

ArchivalResource: 132 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154920 View

McCabe, W. Gordon (William Gordon), 1841-1920. Papers of W. Gordon McCabe [manuscript], 1757-1920.

Title: Papers of W. Gordon McCabe [manuscript], 1757-1920.

The papers consist chiefly of McCabe's correspondence with prominent scholars, U.S. and British literary figures, and Civil War veterans. Topics include the Civil War, the Confederacy, Confederate veterans organizations, World War I, black suffrage, the University of Virginia, and British literature. Of particular interest are accounts of the destruction of Hampton and the seizing of the powder magazine at Norfolk, accounts of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and of Australian troops in Egypt, the retaining of Robert E. Lee's body in Lexington, Swedenborgianism in 1864, and Einstein's theory of relativity in 1920, the Rotunda fire, changes in the University of Virginia's degree program, and a controversy regarding professor William Howard Perkinson. Also of interest are a letter of Robert E. Lee on William Johnson Pegram, a letter of recommendation from Matthew Arnold, three pages of Thackeray's "The Virginians," a sonnet of Egerton Webbe copied and annotated by Leigh Hunt, two pages from John Richard Green's "Short history of the English people," Edmund Clarence Stedman's "The old admiral," and a poem on being seasick written in imitation of Tennyson by John Reuben Thompson. Tennyson items include a letter,1884 Aug 20 from Audrey Tennyson, brief social letters 1884 Nov 26 and 1888 Feb 12 from Lord Tennyson, a copy of "Carmen Saeculare, an Ode in Honor of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria," sent to McCabe, 1887 Aug 19, and a quotation by Tennyson, 1889 Aug 8. The papers also contain COPIES of letters including Edgar Allan Poe to John Collins McCabe critiquing a poem by McCabe; Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer re Gilmer's mission to obtain University of Virginia professors abroad; visits to Tennyson by McCabe, 1884 and 1887; Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie on her father's writing habits and a note to her from Robert Browning; Henry James on a promised volume and his "busy scribbling autumn"; and a letter of Stonewall Jackson to Robert E. Lee re the impending battle of Chancellorsville. There are papers, 1757-1796, of McCabe's ancestor George Taylor chiefly re his iron business in Easton, Pennsylvania including a plat of the site of present day Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1771. In addition there are class rolls from McCabe's University School, "The old Virginia gentleman" by George William Bagby, an autograph book, 1905 - 1908, an address book, 1920, and a replica of the great seal of the Confederacy, 1911.

ArchivalResource: 1,016 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647820111 View

Phelps-Stokes Fund records, 1893-1970

Title: Phelps-Stokes Fund records 1893-1970

The Phelps-Stokes Fund Records contain administrative records including trustee and committee minutes, correspondence, memoranda, financial records, legal documents, speeches, reports, occasional papers, and printed material, such as pamphlets, brochures, clippings, articles, press releases and programs. Records concern the early work of the Fund in researching and supporting education for Africans and African Americans and improvement in housing conditions, through study commissions, reports, and project grants, as well as its engagement in contemporary debates concerning the philosophy and policies of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. To a lesser extent, the Fund provided early support for surveys of American Indian schools and administration, such as the 1928 Lewis Meriam study and the 1939 Navajo Indian study. Later endeavors included administering grants for conferences on race relations, exchange and training programs, cooperative programs with other foundations, government aid programs, and a number of cultural projects.

ArchivalResource: 52 linear ft., 127 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20936 View

Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) records, 1893-1921

Title: Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) records

Records of the Immigration Restriction League (U.S.), especially those of Prescott F. (Farnsworth) Hall, one of the founders and executive secretary from 1896-1921.

ArchivalResource: 12.4 linear feet (24 boxes and 17 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00163/catalog View

Dunton, Lewis Marion, d. 1936. Lewis Marion Dunton papers, 1905-1936 (bulk 1920-1933).

Title: Lewis Marion Dunton papers, 1905-1936 (bulk 1920-1933).

Collection consists of correspondence and other papers relating primarily to Dunton's activities as secretary-treasurer of the Claflin University Endowment Fund and as president of the Dunton Memorial and Recreation Association including financial statements of the Endowment Fund, writings of Dunton's programs, legal papers, receipts, and newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70966677 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

Anson Phelps Stokes family papers, 1761-1960, 1892-1958

Title: Anson Phelps Stokes family papers 1761-1960 1892-1958

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, subject files, memorabilia, photographs, financial records, and other papers detailing the professional career and personal life of Anson Phelps Stokes and family members, including Olivia, Caroline and Helen Stokes. Papers relating to Anson Phelps Stokes document his work with prominent educators, reformers, religious leaders, businessmen, and politicians. Stokes's work on behalf of black education, social issues, and the Phelps-Stokes Fund are detailed. His religious activities, Yale University work, and family interests are also represented, as are Stokes's work on behalf of the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905 and the Yale-China Association. Papers relating to Helen Phelps Stokes include material relating to the Socialist Party and the National Civil Liberties Bureau.

ArchivalResource: 145.25 linear feet (321 boxes, 4 folios)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0299 View

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947. Papers and photographs of Jackson Davis, 1906-1947 and n.d.

Title: Papers and photographs of Jackson Davis, 1906-1947 and n.d.

The papers consist of topical files, personal, professional, and financial files, photographs, glass lantern slides, photographic slides, negatives, card indexes and printed materials.

ArchivalResource: 38 1/2 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53181653 View

Dillard, J. H. (James Hardy), 1856-1940. Papers, 1878-1939, n.d.

Title: Papers, 1878-1939, n.d.

Notes for a lecture, "Julius Caesar as a man of letters," and a combination diary/address/travel expense book. The diary details an 1878 trip to New York with a description of a church service conducted by Henry Ward Beecher at Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32958853 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

Dillard, J. H. (James Hardy), 1856-1940. Typed note signed James Hardy Dillard to: "Dear Mr. Fullerton" August 13, 1925.

Title: Typed note signed James Hardy Dillard to: "Dear Mr. Fullerton" August 13, 1925.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70815214 View

Dillard, J. H. (James Hardy), 1856-1940. Various articles by and tribute to James H. Dillard, [manuscript], 1927, 1929, 1931, 1936.

Title: Various articles by and tribute to James H. Dillard, [manuscript], 1927, 1929, 1931, 1936.

1927 May 7. Article on "Examinations" by J. H. Dillard, from School and Society, Vol. XXV, No. 645. 1929 April. Article titled "'Conjur' Words" by J. H. Dillard, from the Southern Workman. 1931 articles, including, "Half-Truths about Education," "Why George?", "George Goes to College," and "What to Expect of George." n.d. Article from the Southwestern Christian Advocate titled "Christianity and the Religion of Jesus" by J. H. Dillard. 1936. Article titled "The Road to Reality" by J. H. Dillard, from the Virginia Journal of Education. 1936 Oct 27. Article in rememberance of the late Dr. James Hardy Dillard.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/397865124 View