Evie C. Spencer papers, 1909-1968.

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Evie C. Spencer papers, 1909-1968.

Photographs, correspondence, memorandum booklets, diplomas and certificates, Cornell ephemera, alumni surveys, and other papers of an African-American woman student at Cornell University. Includes letters from Emily and Isabel Howland.

.3 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7917830

Cornell University Library

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Spencer, Evie Lee Carpenter,

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Cornell University. Class of 1918. Evie C. Spencer Papers, #37-5-2880. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. From the description of Evie C. Spencer papers, 1909-1968. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64682083 ...

Cornell University

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Howland, Isabel, 1959-1942.

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Howland, Emily, 1827-1929

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Emily Howland was a Quaker reformer, educator and philanthropist. In the mid 1850s, she was a teacher in a school for African American girls. During the Civil War she helped organize the Freedman's Village at Camp Todd for refugee slaves, where she worked as nurse and teacher. After the war, she opened a school for African Americans. She took an interest in Southern normal and industrial school and left money for them in her will. The president of her county Woman's Suffrage Associati...