Helen Evangeline Banks Harrison papers, ca. 1850-ca. 1985 (bulk ca. 1940-ca. 1959).

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Helen Evangeline Banks Harrison papers, ca. 1850-ca. 1985 (bulk ca. 1940-ca. 1959).

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The collection consists of personal materials and those documenting Harrison's mother, Anna DeCosta Banks, the Hospital and Training School for Nurses and McClennan-Banks hospital. Personal papers of Evangeline Banks Harrison and her family include her Avery Institute graduation program (1917), a school essay, biographical data, inspirational clippings, photographs, including an unidentified daguerreotype (ca. 1850s) and a sporadically kept diary (ca. 1937-40s). Armistead Harrison materials document his membership in the Owls Whist Club and his long time career as a barber at Felder's Barbershop, Charleston, S.C. Anna DeCosta Banks materials include photos, biographical data, diplomas, etc. There are early graduation programs from the Hospital and Training School for Nurses, and clippings and notes re the history of the segregated hospital founded by Dr. Alonzo McClennan including photocopies of some issues of The Hospital Herald journal he edited. Included are constitutions, bylaws, charters, etc. of that institution and its successor, the McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital. With significant correspondence (1947-1959) re the closing of the earlier institution, and the struggle to secure financing, etc. to support a hospital to treat African Americans. Those active in the debate included the Catholic Diocese of Charleston, Roper Hospital and Medical Society of South Carolina, the city of Charleston, and the county of Charleston which eventually took responsibility for a new structure. Correspondents include hospital officers, Thomas Carr McFall, Samuel J. Poinsette, building designer Augustus E. Constantine, other architects, a representative of the Society for Preservation of Spirituals, and Harold S. (Dick) Reeves, wanting to hold a Gullah reading to raise money. With some miscellaneous materials re hospital staff and their descendants.

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College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital (Charleston, S.C.)

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Reeves, Harold S.

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Catholic Church. Diocese of Charleston (S.C.)

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Diocese established in 1820 as a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Baltimore with John England as its first bishop; included North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. William Gaston was elected to the state Senate in 1799 and the state House of Commons in 1808. He served as a member of the U.S. Congress, 1813-1815. Returning to his home state he was very active in legislative affairs and was a judge of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1834 to his death. ...

Owls Whist Club (Charleston, S.C.)

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Hospital and Training School for Nurses (Charleston, S.C.)

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McClennan, Alonzo, 1855-1912.

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Harrison, Helen Evangeline Banks, 1898-1985.

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Born in Hampton, Virginia in 1898, Helen (often called Evangeline, or "Vangi") Banks, the daughter of Issiah and Anna DeCosta Banks, came to Charleston, S.C. as a child and spent most of her life there. She attended city schools, Avery Normal Institute, and Howard University. In 1922, she married Armistead B. Harrison (1893-1985), son of Charles Alonzo Harrison (1876-1942), rector (1918-1936) of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, and long time barber and eventual owner of Felder's Barbershop in Charle...

Banks, Anna DeCosta, 1869-1930.

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Harrison, Armistead, 1893-1985.

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McFall, Thomas Carr, 1908-1969.

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Constantine, Augustus Edison, 1898-1976

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Felder's Barbershop (Charleston, S.C.)

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