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Langdon Manor Books

 Organization

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Louise Boyer scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14971
Content Description This collection contains the college scrapbook of Louise Boyer who attended the School of Education at the Hampton Institute, now Hampton University, in Hampton, Virginia. Hampton Institute, a historically Black college, was founded in 1868 as the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School by the American Missionary Association for the education of the formerly enslaved. Also included is an earlier collection of one scrapbook titled "Scrapbook of Louise Boyer at Hampton Institute. This...
Dates: 1925-1936

Ruth A. Curtis art notebook

 Collection — Box BW 57: [Barcode: X032668454], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16889
Content Description This collection contains a single notebook of Ruth A. Curtis of Windsor, Connecticut. The notebook documents her studies in art, spanning two different groups of lessons from 1906-1909. There are encouraging notes from her instructor, Marshall T. Fry, and several examples of her art, including woodblock prints and two colorful drawings of flowers. Her notes include motive, arrangement, color, shape, value, intensity, design principles, and lecture notes. Curtis also copied a "Schedule of 10...
Dates: 1906-1909

Karen Green's Nu Kopelle Scrapbook

 Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X032762417]
Identifier: MSS 16838
Content Description This collection contains a scrapbook documenting one year of service of the Nu Kopelles, a youth group based in Queens, New York, sponsored by the African American professional and business women's sorority Lambda Kappa Mu. The scrapbook is dedicated to their youth coordinator, Elizabeth Lockett, and the opening title page, written in ink, identifies the club officers: President Karyn Greene, Vice President Jackie Chamacoon, Secretary Yvonne Stallworth, and Treasurer Sheila Blake. This...
Dates: 1974-1975

Helen Joan Gift scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Flat_box ViU-2024-0143_001: [Barcode: X006178813]
Identifier: ViU-2024-0143
Dates: 1942-2004; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1947

Hilda (Nelson) Kearney scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Box ViU-2024-0142_001: [Barcode: X032784884]
Identifier: ViU-2024-0142

Howard University student diary

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762503]
Identifier: MSS 16847
Content Description This collection contains a diary from an unknown female student attending Howard University in 1915. It measures 9 X 6 inches, and the pages are hole-punched and tied with a ribbon. The diary includes one tipped-in item and twenty-eight leaves with thirty-three of the pages written on. Most of the diary documents the last few days of May 1915, covering the writer's final days at Howard and reminiscing about her time at the university. She discusses attending the annual play by...
Dates: 1915

Joy Rebekah Kime Benton scrapbook

 Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X032762515]
Identifier: MSS 16843
Content Description This collection contains a scrapbook belonging to Joy Rebekah Kime Benton (1886-1957) of Burlington, North Carolina, an author, poet, painter, and weaver. The contents of scrapbook items are principally documents from 1905 to 1908, although some paste-ins are from the 1930s. There are 128 pages with photographs, clippings, drawings, and ephemera pasted and laid in. The album primarily documents her college days at the Salem Female Academy (later Salem College). It includes her...
Dates: c. 1905-1933

Ledger of Virginia Industrial School for Boys

 Unprocessed Material — Flat_box ViU2023-0151_001: [Barcode: X006178636]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0151

Louise Boyer scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Box ViU-2025-0088_001: [Barcode: X032762778]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0088

Bernard Proctor Black History Scrapbook

 Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X032762416]
Identifier: MSS 16835
Content Description This collection contains a homemade Black history notebook of clippings and illustrations compiled by Bernard S. Proctor, (a Tuskegee Airman). The notebook is a green cloth 3-ring binder, with "Negro History" written on the spine, containing newspaper clippings from the Pittsburgh Courier, illustrations from a syndicated cartoon Your History, by J.A. Rogers, and illustrations from Negroes...
Dates: c.1949-1950

Everett Nathan "Silent" Rattan photograph

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 16827

Madeleine Coleman Roach papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16869
Content Description This material contains references to offensive and harmful language and crimes involving racism. The purpose of this note is to give users the opportunity to decide whether they need or want to view these materials, or at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials. This collection contains photographs, diaries, a memory book, a prayer book, witness reports, scrapbook pages, photographs, certificates, newsletters, telegrams, menus, and ephemera...
Dates: 1942-1945