Evie C. Spencer papers, 1909-1968

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Evie C. Spencer papers, 1909-1968

Photographs, correspondence, memorandum booklets, diplomas and certificates, Cornell ephemera, alumni surveys, and other papers of an African-American woman student at Cornell University. Includes letters from Emily and Isabel Howland

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Cornell University

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Spencer, Evie Lee Carpenter, 1886-1984

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Evie Lee Spencer graduated from Cornell University in 1918. From the guide to the Evie C. Spencer papers, 1909-1968, (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) ...

Howland, Emily, 1827-1929

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Emily Howland was a Quaker reformer, educator and philanthropist. In the mid 1850s, she was a teacher in a school for African American girls. During the Civil War she helped organize the Freedman's Village at Camp Todd for refugee slaves, where she worked as nurse and teacher. After the war, she opened a school for African Americans. She took an interest in Southern normal and industrial school and left money for them in her will. The president of her county Woman's Suffrage Associati...

Howland, Isabel, 1959-1942.

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