Elizabeth Mossell Anderson Papers

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Elizabeth Mossell Anderson Papers

1905-1975

https://archives.upenn.edu/collections/finding-aid/upt50a374e

Personal Correspondence: with family, mostly STMA (approx. 2/3 cu. ft.; 1938-51); general and unsorted (approx. 1 cu. ft.; 1930-1971). Financial Records (1933-74): bank records (approx. 1.5 cu. ft.); other financial records (approx. 2 cu. ft.). Papers relating to Central State College, Wilberforce University, Ohio (1 cu. ft., scattered; 1938-68). The record group also contains a small series of photographs.

8.0 Cubic feet

eng, Latn

University of Pennsylvania Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11658883

University of Pennsylvania Library

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Anderson, Elizabeth Mossell, 1894-1975

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60z9mw0 (person)

Elizabeth Mossell Anderson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1939. She served as Dean of Women at Virginia State College and later at Wilberforce University (Central State College), Ohio. Upon her retirement in 1964, she came to live with the her sister, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander in Philadelphia and resided with Sadie and her husband Raymond until her death in 1975. ...

Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell, 1898-1989

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6204w32 (person)

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (January 2, 1898 – November 1, 1989) was an American lawyer who was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States (1921), and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She was the first African-American woman to practice law in Pennsylvania, following in her father's footsteps. She was the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, serving from 1919 to 1923. In 1946 she ...