Manumit School Collection 1920s-2000s

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Manumit School Collection 1920s-2000s

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Manumit School was a Christian socialist school in Pawling, NY, 1924-1943, then in Bristol, PA, 1944-1958. The collection is an assembled collection containing printed ephemera, correspondence, writings of the School's director (1933-1958), William Mann Fincke, who was a son of the co-founders, Reverend William Mann Fincke (d. 1927) and Helen Harden Fincke; a CD containing material from the website "Manumit School" devoted to its history, and photographs of students and life at the school.

2.0 linear feet; in two manuscript boxes, one folder, and one oversize flat box.

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6331691

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Speer, R. Michael

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Manumit School (Pawling, N.Y.)

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Fincke, William Mann, Reverend

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Manumit School was a Christian socialist co-educational, elementary, non-denominational, boarding school in Pawling, NY, 1924-1943, then in Bristol, PA, 1944-1958. In 1924, Rev. William Mann Fincke and his wife, Helen Hamlin, founded Manumit as an elementary level, co-educational, boarding school on a working farm in Pawling, NY. In 1926, Henry I. Lineman became interim Director upon illness of Rev. Fincke, who died in 1927. In 1927-1928 Nellie M. Seeds became Director, Seeds resigned in 1933 an...

Manumit School (Bristol, Pa.).

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Fincke, Benjamin

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