Family papers, 1881-1967.

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Family papers, 1881-1967.

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The collection contains family papers from three generations of Pleasant Jenkins' family. Jenkins' papers include personal and professional correspondence. Topics include his long courtship of Lizzie Johnson, life at Central Normal College, his job as school superintendent and ordering textbooks and supplies, his teaching licenses, and notebooks. Velsie Jenkins Tyler's papers include correspondence, materials from the New Albany Business and Professional Women's Club, materials from her job as a Floyd County social worker and with the Indiana Employment Security Division, a 1955 auto trip diary, articles for the Federal Writers Project on Floyd County and New Albany history and folklore, and photographs. There are also materials concerning R. Donald Tyler and his work at Allison's, publications by psychologist Forrest B. Tyler, a Jenkins family photo album, a Georgetown High School 1940 newspaper, programs from Speedway High School dramatic presentations, and miscellaneous programs.

3 boxes and 1 oversize folder.

Indiana Historical Society Library

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Federal writer's project

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Hinton was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview. From the guide to the Martha Adeline Hinton interview, 1937, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) One of the first actions by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression of the 1930s was to extend federal work relief to the unemployed. One such relief program was the Works Progress Administration, which FDR established in 1933. By 1941 the WPA had provided empl...

Tyler, Forrest B.

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Tyler, Velsie Jenkins, 1904-ca. 1970.

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Jenkins, Pleasant, 1869-ca. 1930.

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Tyler, R. Donald.

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Central Normal College (Danville, Ind.)

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New Albany Business and Professional Women's Club.

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Indiana. Employment Security Division

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