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Rebecca White certificates and invitations
Title:
Rebecca White certificates and invitations
Description:
Miscellaneous certificates and invitations addressed to Rebecca White. Includes an ownership certificate of a burial plot, certificate of shares in United States of Freedom, and a membership certificate from the Philadelphia Home for Incurables. Also includes an invitation to the Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference, wedding invitations (Hannah W. Roberts & Charles E. Hopkins, Anna M. Janney & Howard W. Lippincott), and a wedding anniversary invitation (Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lindsay).
Date:
1880 - 1900
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Booker T. Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Booker T. Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Booker T. Washington was American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Written on the stationary of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, where Washington served as principal. He informs Anna Jackson that she does not need to reimburse them for the lantern slides; he says they were glad to send them to her.
Date:
1899-04-06
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Entries run from 1902-06-11 through 1903-06-10 and chronicle Howland's daily activities. Recurring themes include meetings of local clubs and reform societies, as well as the health of Howland's friend Mary Reed. Records Howland's time at the National American Woman Suffrage Association's 1903 convention in New Orleans and her subsequent visit to the Tuskegee Institute with Susan B. Anthony. Also records Howland's visits to several other African American schools in the South, including the Kowaliga School and the Schofield School in Aiken, as well as her attendance of several education conferences in April 1903.
Date:
1902-1903
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to A. G. Flanders
Title:
Emily Howland letter to A. G. Flanders
Description:
Written to Miss A. G. Flanders, a teacher at the Sherwood Select School. Discusses several conferences which Howland and her niece Isabel attended at the Tuskegee Institute. Relates an exchange from the farmers' conference over the use of fertilizer and a discussion of extravagance which emphasized buying on credit and spending money on drugs and alcohol. Relates the remarks made at the teachers' conference.
Date:
1897-02-27
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written on Tuskegee Institute letterhead by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Wishes Howland a happy 100th birthday. Discusses African American educator Joseph Winthrop Holley and the Georgia Normal and Agricultural College in Albany, Georgia, at length. Also discusses the Hazard family's support for the school. Remarks on the prejudice of whites in Albany and in the North; comments on segregation in Philadelphia. Reminisces on visiting African American schools with Howland in 1903. Expresses doubt about the capabilities of many African Americans. Briefly discusses speaking at the Tuskegee Institute.
Date:
1927-11-20
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Booker T. Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Booker T. Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Booker T. Washington was American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Written on the stationary of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, where Washington served as principal. He regrets to inform Anna Jackson that they do not have any lantern slides of the character she requested. However, he encloses two photographs showing students who walked hundreds of miles to get to the Tuskegee Institute. He thanks Jackson for her interest in their work.
Date:
1900-05-07
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Margaret Murray Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Margaret Murray Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Margaret Murray Washington was the principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which later became Tuskegee University, and was the third wife of Booker T. Washington. She was happy to receive Anna Jackson's invitation to speak but declines due to not having any plans to be in New York over the summer. She says that as a colored woman, she hates that foreigners are coming and taking work from the young people.
Date:
1906-01-12
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Booker T. Washington letter to Carolena M. Wood
Title:
Booker T. Washington letter to Carolena M. Wood
Description:
Booker T. Washington was American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Written on the stationary of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, where Washington served as principal. Carolena Morris Wood was a Quaker missionary. Washington responds to Wood's letter by enclosing a letter from Major J. B. Ramsey, who worked at the Tuskegee Institute, which he states "explains itself."
Date:
1912-06-18
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Booker T. Washington letter
Title:
Booker T. Washington letter
Description:
Booker T. Washington was American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Written on the stationary of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, where Washington served as principal. Addressed to "Madam." He informs that recipient that he is not able to supply her with "The Plantation Songs" as she requested because their supply has been exhausted, and they no longer have the music plates.
Date:
1881-1915
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Booker T. Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Booker T. Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Booker T. Washington was American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Written on the stationary of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, where Washington served as principal. He informs Anna Jackson that they have no lantern slides "of the view 'Out of the old, into the new.'"
Date:
1899-02-09
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Robert R. Moton letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Robert R. Moton letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Robert Russa Moton was an African American educator and author who served as the Tuskegee Institute's second president. Invites Howland to the unveiling of a memorial statue to Booker T. Washington.
Date:
1922-02-20
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College