Hartshorn Memorial College collection, 1883-1979.

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Hartshorn Memorial College collection, 1883-1979.

Materials relating to the Hartshorn Memorial College reunions include programs, booklets, news releases, news clippings, and correspondence of Dr. Emma Wesley Brown, chair of the reunion committee; picture book of photographs of students, faculty and administrators (ca. 1900); transcripts of Nannie M. Broaddus and Jessie Vaughan Wilson Coleman; program of 1912 founder's day centennial birthday commemoration for Joseph Charles Hartshorn; 1928 booklet listing the graduates of the college from 1885 to 1928 including five year planning goals of the college; and photographs from scrapbook of students, faculty, buildings (1882-1915).

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Broaddus, Nannie M.

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Whiting, A. B., Miss

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Maggie Walker High School (Richmond, Va.)

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Hartshorn Memorial College (Richmond, Va.). Reunion Committee

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Whiting, Tossie P. F.

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Tossie Permelia Frances Whiting, a native of Richmond, Virginia, was graduated from the high school at Hartshorn Memorial College in 1895. She earned a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Chicago and an M.A. from Columbia University. She worked at Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute (now Virginia State University in Petersburg) from 1904 until she retired in 1948. She was their first Dean of Women from 1919, when the position was created, until 1936 when she became an Associate Profess...

Brown, Emma Wesley

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Hartshorn Memorial College was founded by Joseph C. Hartshorn of Rhode Island in memory of his late wife, Rachel, "for the purpose of raising up a body of thoroughly educated Christian women." The school was chartered by the Legislature of Virginia on March 13, 1884. It was located at 1600 West Leigh Street in Richmond, incorporating some of the land and buildings of the old Bowe plantation. Although the grade levels taught varied over the years, at one time or another grades one through college...

Hartshorn Memorial College (Richmond, Va.). Board of Trustees

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Coleman, Jessie Vaughn Wilson

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Hartshorn Memorial College (Richmond, Va.)

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Hartshorn Memorial College was founded in the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., with 58 students on November 1883; est. by the Rev. J.C. Hartshorn, of Providence, R.I., in memory of his wife, to provide a Christian education to young Negro women; merged with Virginia Union University in 1932. From the description of Hartshorn Memorial College collection, 1883-1979. (Virginia Union University). WorldCat record id: 70970002 ...

Hartshorn, J. C. 1812-1889

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Virginia Union University (Richmond, Va.)

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National Theological Institute with branches in Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Va., founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society, split apart after 1865 with the Washington branch becoming Wayland Seminary; 1869 the Richmond branch was named Colver Institute; in 1876 school was incorporated by the Virginia General Assembly under the name Richmond Institute; in 1883 a college for women named Hartshorn Memorial College was founded by the ABHMS; with no women attending the Richmond Institu...

Hartshorn Memorial College (Richmond, Va.). Alumni Association

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Hartshorn Hall (Richmond, Va.)

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