Papers, 1920-1966.

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Papers, 1920-1966.

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Collection consists of materials that document Stewart's activities in the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Campus Club, the American Legion, and the Red Cross, ca. 1930-1966. Also includes newspaper clippings about Alabama Polytechnic Institute, a scrapbook concerning Georgia author Corra Harris, and a small amount of material on her friend William Spratling. Collection contains one photograph entitled "First API Orchestra" and shows Stewart playing violin. Dated ca. 1940.

0.5 cubic ft.

Auburn University.

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Auburn University.

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Daughters of the American Revolution. Light Horse Harry Lee Chapter (Auburn, Ala.)

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The Light Horse Harry Lee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was organized in 1896 in Auburn, Alabama. From the description of Records, 1896-1993. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 33957514 ...

American legion

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Veteran's organization. From the description of Records, 1893-1927. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36805972 Association of veterans of American wars. Formed by a group of World War I officers, the American Legion is the world's largest veteran's organization. From the description of Records, 1960-1987. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 61206804 The American Legion was founded in 1919 by veterans returning from Europe after Worl...

Red Cross

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Spratling, William, 1900-1967

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Spratling studied architecture at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University), 1917-1921. He designed the university seal that, with minor changes, is still in use; he also taught drafting at API. Spratling moved to New Orleans where he taught at Tulane University and shared an apartment with novelist William Faulkner. Soon after, Spratling moved to Taxco, Mexico, reviving that town's silver industry. He authored many articles about architecture as well as a critically-acclaimed book, ...

Harris, Corra, 1869-1935

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"Novelist Corra White Harris was one of the most celebrated women from Georgia for nearly three decades in the early twentieth century. She is best known for her first novel, A Circuit Rider's Wife (1910), though she gained a national audience a decade before its publication. From 1899 through the 1920s, she published hundreds of essays and short stories and more than a thousand book reviews in such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, and esp...

Auburn university

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East Alabama Male College, sponsored by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was chartered in May 1856. Classes opened in 1859 in Auburn, Alabama, but the college closed during the Civil War. Reopening in 1866, the college became a land-grant institution in 1872 and changed its name to Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. The college was known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute from 1899 to 1960, when it became Auburn University. From the description of Founders Day collec...

Campus Club

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Stewart, Gladys Steadham.

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Stewart was born in 1899 in Auburn, Ala. She attended the Women's College of Montgomery, Ala. (now Huntingdon College) and taught school in Montgomery and Auburn. She received her M.A. in English from Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) in 1932. Her husband, Glenn G. Stewart, was an Audiovisual specialist for the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service. Mrs. Stewart was very active in numerous civic, patriotic, and lineage organizations from ca. 1930-1966. She died in 1981. ...