Hampton Institute Scrapbook of Louise Boyer

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 1

Creator:

McCorkle, Louise Alberta Boyer, 1908-

Extent:

0.25 Cubic Feet Boxed with addition scrapbook 2 in legal document size box

Scope and content:

This scrapbook has more information about Hampton Institute included with Boyer's own scrapbook pages. There are pressed flowers, progams for music events and track meets, autographs, greeting cards, and newspaper clippings. There is also a poem dedicated to the memory of Hampton administrator Albert Howe.

Louise Alberta Boyer of Delaware City, Delaware, attended the Institute for the two-year teaching training matriculation, graduating first in her class in 1932.

Foldered items include loose items such as photographs, programs for dramatic and muscial productions, membership cards, greeting cards, tickets, graduation program for George P. Phenix Training School and clippings from 1925 to 1936. There are signed items by Ohtello Wilson, Doris Humphrey, Annette Whitehead, and Nora Fauchald. Autographs include Nannie H. Burroughs and Mordecai W. Johnson. There is a postcard view of St. Paul's College and a poem dedicated to the memory of Hampton Institute founder Albert Howe.

Language:

English

Acquisition information:

This collection was a purchase from Jerry N. Showalter to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 5 April, 2010.

Subjects:

African American women
African American students
Women's Scrapbook/ Commonplace Book Collections (University of Virginia)
African American universities and colleges
Scrapbooks

Names:

Hampton Institute
Hampton Institute
McCorkle, Louise Alberta Boyer, 1908-

Places:

Student life

Access and use

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