Ethelyn LeGrand Jones Artwork

Access and use

Location of collection:
Longwood University
Archives and Special Collections
Greenwood Library
Longwood University
401 Redford Street
Farmville, VA 23909
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (434) 395-2432
Fax: (434) 395-2453
Restrictions:

There are no restrictions to access or use for research purposes.

Summary

Extent:
1 Folder 1 oversized archival folder
Creator:
Jones, Ethelyn LeGrand.
Language:
English .

Background

Scope and content:

This collection of 5 works of art by Ethelyn Jones Morris Guppy mostly date from 1903.

Biographical / historical:

Ethelyn LeGrand Jones was born in New Store, Virginia in 1877 to Louis Dibrell and Louisa Flippen Jones. From 1894 to 1896, she attended then-State Female Normal School. In 1899, Jones married Wiley B. Morris, a farmer in Buckingham County, Virginia. Sometime prior to 1910, Ethelyn Morris moved to Boston, Massachusetts where she was employed as a contributor to, and later editor of, The Modern Priscilla, a magazine devoted to women's fashion, needlecraft, and housekeeping. During World War I, she was employed by the U.S. Surgeon General's Office, and was stationed at Walter Reed Hospital where she taught arts and crafts to recovering soldiers. In 1921, Morris married George Guppy, an architect, and the couple subsequently moved to Los Angeles, California. Ethelyn J. Guppy passed away on September 1, 1929 and is buried in Alhambra, California.

Custodial history:

The materials in this collection, which originate with Ethelyn Jones Morris Guppy, were donated to the Farmville-Prince Edward Historical Society Archives ca. 2011 by Julia A. Horner, the great niece of Ethelyn Jones Morris Guppy.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard