John Fulton "Uncle Remus" Collection, 1878-1928.

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John Fulton "Uncle Remus" Collection, 1878-1928.

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Photographs, postcards mailed to John Fulton, an election campaign card, guest registers, and a newspaper clipping. The photographs are of Vanderbilt University students of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and are almost all identified.

2.21 linear ft.

Vanderbilt University Library, Jean and Alexander Heard Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7156954

Vanderbilt University Library, Jean and Alexander Heard Library

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Fulton, John, 1837-1932.

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John Fulton (1837-1932) was born a slave at the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's estate, and died in Nashville, Tenn. In 1885 he came to Vanderbilt University to serve the IV Club, composed of four bachelor professors who kept house together in Wesley Hall--William L. Dudley, Austin H. Merrill, J. T. McGill and W. T. Magruder. James H. Kirkland, destined to become chancellor, later joined the group. As members of the group married and left, there remained only William L. Dudley, and Fulton became his...