Nellie Rathbone Bright family papers. 1866-1977.

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Nellie Rathbone Bright family papers. 1866-1977.

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The Nellie Rathbone Bright family papers consist mainly of a biographical listing of dates of major milestones in Bright's life, such as graduations and civic awards. Although the collection offers little correspondence, it does include a number of photographs, and a scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings and church programs relating to her father, the Rev. Richard Bright, and his work as an Episcopal priest in Savannah, Georgia, and Philadelphia. Bright's biographical notes, the Rev. Bright's scrapbook, as well as the photographs, provide a mosaic-like portrait of the background that shaped Bright's life as the daughter of a religious leader committed to educating young children. These articles offer glimpses of the richness and wealth of Nellie Rathbone Bright's contribution to public education in Philadelphia.

2 boxes 1 v. (1 linear ft.)

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Bright, Nellie Rathbone, 1898-1977

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Nellie Rathbone Bright, born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1898, was the only child of the Rev. Richard Bright and his wife, Nellie (Jones) Bright. Despite segregation barriers, the African-American Bright family attained educational levels surpassing those of the general population of their generation. Rev. Bright, assigned to the Episcopal diocese in Savannah, Georgia, in 1891, was appointed, two decades later, to a Philadelphia parish and moved his family to that city. A student of Philadelphia pu...

Bright, Richard, b. 1866.

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