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Letter From Reverend J. W. Drake To Eartha White, J. W. Drake Rev.

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Correspondence: Letter Reverend J. W. Drake, Minister of St. John Baptist Church, Miami, Florida, to [Sister] E. M. White, Jacksonville, Florida, soliciting donations. Envelope with handwritten notes included. Date: April 18, 1929

Letter From Mrs. G.B. Swain To Eartha White, G. B. Swain

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Correspondence: Note from Mrs. G. B. Swain to Eartha M. M. White requesting assistance in finding work. Date: April 11, 1929

Letter From Sarah Best To [Eartha] White, Sarah Best

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Correspondence: Letter from Sarah Best to [Eartha] White, requesting help procuring release for Miss Best from the Florida State Hospital, Chattahoochee, Florida. Envelope included. Date: April 10, 1929

Docket Clerk's Receipt

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: City of Jacksonville, Florida, Department of the Police, Precinct 1 Docket Clerk's Receipt for Rosa Clark for disorderly conduct. Handwritten notations on back. Date: February 26, 1929

Community Chest Association Of Duval County Donation Receipts

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Documents: Receipt stubs from Community Chest donation tickets. Eartha M. M. White served as the Community Chest solicitor. Date: 1929

Letter From Mrs. E. C. Jenkins To Eartha White, E. C. Jenkins

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Correspondence: Letter from Mrs. E. C. Jenkins, Secretary/Cashier, Jenkins Orphanage Institute, Charleston, South Carolina, to Eartha White soliciting donations. Date: November 7, 1928

Letter From Joe H. James Jr. To Board Members, Joe H. James Jr

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Correspondence: Letter to Board Members from Joe H. James, Jr., President, regarding attendance for a meeting to discuss financing the program and if they will continue as a member of the Community Chest. Date: October 5, 1928

Charlotte Sanders 1928-1929, Charlotte Sanders

Scrapbooks

Charlotte Sanders attended Ward-Belmont during the 1928-1929 school years.

Elizabeth Igler's Scrapbook 1927-1928, Elizabeth Igler

Scrapbooks

Elizabeth Igler (1910-1995) went to Ward-Belmont during the 1927-1928 school year. She received her law degree from the University of Cincinnati Law School, graduating in 1932. She would go on to have a splendid law career and was one of the few practicing female lawyers in Cincinnati in the 1930s. She clerked for the Honorable Howard Bevis, Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and became the first Solicitor for the Village of Glendale in 1934. She married Lawson E. Whitesides in 1935. She was a member of the Ohio State Bar Association for almost 60 years.

Informational Pamphlet, Your Community Chest

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Booklet: Information pamphlet describing the activities and agencies supported by the Community Chest through the Community Chest Campaign. Date: February 20, 1926

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Holeman, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Administration Documents

Correspondence of Sadie Holeman and Mattie McLean regarding work at Frisbie Hall, smallpox cases and the renting out of Holeman's cottage in Cherryton.

Transcription of Letter 1:

Will be in school this summer anyway.

Lebanon Jct., Ky.

March 3^rd 1926
Miss Mattie McLean
Dear Miss Mattie:

I have heard that Frisbie Hall might be in need of a matron, and am would like to put in an application for the place. I know you remember me and I would appreciate it very much if you would use your influence with Mr. Dr. Cherry in getting the place for me. …

Letter From School Committee To Eartha White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Correspondence: Letter from J. A. Wynn, Chairman, and S. G. Bellamy, Secretary, School Committee, Marianna, Florida, to Eartha M. M. White, soliciting donations for building a new schoolhouse at St. John. Date: January 1925

Maine's Joan Of Arc : An Address Made Before The Kennebec Historical Society, John Francis Sprague

Dorothea Lynde Dix Pamphlets

Booklet containing an address by John Francis Sprague given to the Kennebec Historical Society on January 8, 1924 about Dorothea Dix. Series 1, number 2 of "Kennebec Historical Society's Brochures."

Faculty Wives Scrapbook, Abilene Christian College Faculty Wives

Abilene Christian College Faculty Wives Records

Abilene Christian College Faculty Wives Scrapbook, 1924-1961.

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 002 And 003, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 004 And 005, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

No abstract provided.

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1923 -- The Soprano Voice: Woman's Number, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

Mary Margaret Hill Scrapbook 1923, Mary Margaret Hill

Scrapbooks

Mary Margaret Hill went to Ward-Belmont during the 1923-1924 school year.

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence, Henry Cherry, Lalla Boone

WKU Administration Documents

Correspondence between Lalla Boone and Henry Cherry regarding her returning to work at WKU, enrollment, appropriations and the $100 she donated to start the College Heights Foundation.

Transcript of her letter:

2054 Webster St., Oakland, California, June 30, 1922

Dear Mr. Cherry,

I have feared you had forgotten me until to-day, when I received the invitation to commencement. I had received other invitations to that event; but your invitation gave me courage. Courage I needed. I have been wanting to tell you for a long while now that I want to come back. If you ever expected to get rid …

Rosalyn Kirsch's Scrapbook 1920-1922, Rosalyn Kirsch

Scrapbooks

Rosalyn Kirsch went to Ward-Belmont during the 1920-1922 school years. She created this scrapbook during her time there.

To Arms! Songs Of The Great War, Laura E. Richards

Maine Collection

To Arms! Songs of the Great War

by Laura E. Richards

The Page Company, Boston, Mass., 1918.

"First Impression, December, 1917."

The Colonial Press, C.H. Simonds Co., Boston, U.S.A.

Mary Daly Mcwilliams' Scrapbook 1918-1920, Mary Daly Mcwilliams

Scrapbooks

Mary Daly McWilliams went to Ward-Belmont during the 1918-1920 school years. She created this scrapbook during her time there.

Mary Stewart's Scrapbook 1918-1919, Mary Stewart

Scrapbooks

Mary Stewart went to Ward-Belmont during the 1918-1919 school year. She created this scrapbook during her time there.

Letter From Ella Wheeler Wilcox To Elizabeth Coatsworth, June 22, 1917., Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sincerely Yours, Letters From The Maine Women Writers Collection (Multi-Page Items)

Typed and handwritten letter from Ella Wheeler Wilcox to Elizabeth Coatsworth, dated June 22, 1917, with envelope.

Marguerite Griffith's Scrapbook 1917-1918, Marguerite Griffith

Scrapbooks

Marguerite, born in 1901 in Huntington, West Virginia, attended Ward Belmont during the 1917-1918 school year. She married Harry D. Witherspoon on September 15, 1920, and they moved to California. They had two children: Merilyn and Sara Patricia Witherspoon. They moved to North Carolina where Harry worked as a manager. Marguerite died in 1954 with her husband Harry followed in 1956.

Scrapbook, Ora Mae Curry

Ora Mae Curry Papers

Ora Mae Curry's scrapbook including notes from fellow students and teachers, descriptions of social events, correspondence, report cards, photographs, newspaper clippings, and programs from school events from 1917-1921.

November 15, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, dated to approximately 1916, Abbie writes to Mrs. Tibbets about several topics, including her teaching job, attending an exhibition, seeing the Emperor pass on the street, tea services, and describes in detail her accommodations. She says that she is very happy in Japan now that she is more used to the climate.

Hattye Mae White Scrapbook 1916-1918, Hattye Mae White

Scrapbooks

Hattye Mae White was born in San Antonio, Texas on October 16, 1897. She attended Ward-Belmont during the 1916-1917 school year. She married Charles Cousins Johnson Jr. on September 7, 1918, and the pair had one son, Captain Charles Cousins III, born August 2, 1919. Captain Cousins would later die during World War II. Hattye Mae White Johnson died on June 23, 1979, in Texas.

Jessie Whitesell Scrapbook - 1916-1951, Jessie Whitesell

Scrapbooks

Jessie Whitesell went to Ward-Belmont during the 1916-1917 school year. While there are a few elements in the book from her time as a student, the scrapbook mostly details the closing of Ward-Belmont as it went through its transformation to Belmont College.

Judith And Emily Jordan's Scrapbook 1915-1918, Judith Jordan, Emily Jordan

Scrapbooks

Judith (1895-1938) and Emily Jordan (1897-1977) were two sisters that attended Ward-Belmont during the 1915-1918 school years. Judith married Rivers McNeill Anderson and had three children: Bettie, Rivers and Judith. She died in 1938. Her sister Emily married James Anderson and the pair did not have any children. Emily died in 1977 while her husband passed a year later in 1978.