Guide to the Clara Cook Lawrence photographs

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Guide to the Clara Cook Lawrence photographs

circa 1907-1917

https://archives.consortiumlibrary.org/collections/specialcollections/hmc-0159/

The collection consists of the postcards, and photographs of Clara Cook Lawrence. The postcards and photographs were sent to her friend, Ida Lawrence Kinyon, and consist of 23 black and white and color tinted photo postcards and photographic prints from Hillsdale, Michigan and Alaska. Five of the black and white photo postcards were taken by photographer John E. Thwaites, three of which are scenes in Unalaska. Six black and white photographs are of Clara Cook Lawrence, the Jesse Lee Home, and her colleagues and students at the school.

0.02 cubic feet

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 7782931

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Thwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940

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John Edward Thwaites was born in Eastwood, Ontario, Canada, in 1863. The family moved to Michigan around 1871. In 1885, Thwaites married Carrie Warne, and the two worked as schoolteachers in Michigan until Thwaites's ill health led the couple to relocate to Florida. Unable to establish a viable career as a teacher, Thwaites applied at the Florida Southern Railroad for a position as a federal Railway Mail Service clerk in 1895. In 1901 he was transferred to Spokane to work for the Rocky Mountain ...

Lawrence, Clara Cook.

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Clara Cook Lawrence was born in Hillsdale, Michigan, in 1870. She came to Alaska in 1910 to teach school at the Jesse Lee Home in Unalaska. During her seven years at the school, she taught sewing, knitting, crocheting, embroidery, and tatting. She left Alaska in 1917, and married Charles Engle Lawrence later that same year. Clara Cook Lawrence died in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, in 1961. From the description of Papers and photographs, 1907-1914. (UAA/APU Consortium Library). WorldCat...

Jesse Lee Home (Unalaska, Alaska)

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Farallon (Ship)

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