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BOX 48-73 | Mary A. McNeill, 1839-1959 | ||||||||||||
The Mary A. McNeill series documents her family life, her teaching career,
her engagement in civic and religious activities, her high school and
college years, and her interest in family history and genealogy. This series
is comprised chiefly of correspondence, journals, and a subject file. The
correspondence consists mostly of incoming letters from family members. The
bulk of the family letters are from Mary’s husband, William C. McNeill,
prior to their marriage in 1910. His letters pertain to their courtship and
highlight his activities as a medical doctor and his duties at the Howard
University College of Medicine. Also present are letters from her son Robert
describing his experiences in photography school in New York City and his
military service during World War II. Topics treated are details about his
training (including drawings he made depicting the layout, barracks, and
obstacle course at Fort McClellan, Alabama), descriptions of the Desert
Training Center in California where he was stationed prior to his deployment
to the Pacific Theater, and a few references to Officer Candidate School.
Robert applied to the school in 1943 but was not accepted until January
1945. Also present are letters from her son, William Jr., and his wife,
Lucille. The majority of William Jr.'s letters convey news about his family,
his work as a civil engineer in Liberia during the 1950s, and the living
conditions there. Letters addressed to both parents, Mary A. McNeill and
William C. McNeill Sr., are filed with Mary's papers. One of the larger groups featured in the Mary A. McNeill series are her journals from 1935 until her death in 1959. The journals chronicle her daily activities, including details about family and friends, her health, her travels, the weather, her teaching of student nurses at the Freedman's Hospital, and her service as a member of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia for African American schools. Also present in the journals are occasional notes by Mary commenting on issues such as the performance by singer Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1939, the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan in 1941, and the desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. The subject file also features files relating to Mary's service as a member of the Board of Education, including petitions from citizens urging her to remain on the Board past her four successive terms. She was not swayed and left the board in 1938. Files pertaining to Mary’s secondary education (Hartford Public High School, Hartford, Connecticut) and college years (Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts) are also located in the subject file. Material includes class papers, report cards, annuals, notebooks, photographs of friends, reunion files, and a scrapbook. As a daughter and granddaughter of ministers, Mary’s religious faith is reflected throughout the series. The religious files in the subject files, however, offer the most concentrated documentation, highlighting her activities as a member of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., including her endeavors as part of its Music Committee. The notebooks, notes, and printed matter in the religious files also chronicle her spiritual interests. The family papers in the subject file relate chiefly to three family members: Mary’s grandfather, Amos Noë Freeman; her sister, Laura Wheeler Waring; and her father, Robert F. Wheeler. Freeman was a Presbyterian minister and a conductor with the Underground Railroad. His files include correspondence, biographical material, and clippings relating to mainly his vocation as a minister. Also present are a typescript of Freeman’s letter to Lewis Tappan describing a journey on the Underground Railroad and a reproduction of an albumen photograph of abolitionist John Brown. Files pertaining to Laura Wheeler Waring include clippings, programs, clippings, and printed matter documenting primarily her work as an artist. Waring’s paintings often depicted prominent African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance. The Robert F. Wheeler files feature biographical material, clippings, and printed matter pertaining chiefly to his work as a pastor in Hartford, Connecticut. Material types include correspondence, journals, notebooks and notes, speeches and writings, minutes of meetings, petitions, class papers, photographs, genealogical material, financial papers, biographical material, programs, report cards, music books, sheet music, poetry, recipes, scrapbooks, address books, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other material. |
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Arranged alphabetically in five groups: address books, correspondence, journals, speeches and writings file, and subject file. | |||||||||||||
BOX 48 | Address books, 1908, circa 1954-circa 1961, undated | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 48 | Correspondence | ||||||||||||
BOX 48 | Family | ||||||||||||
BOX 48 | McNeill, Bertha C. (sister-in-law), 1935-1950 | ||||||||||||
BOX 48 | McNeill, Lucille G. (daughter-in-law), 1944-1945, 1956-1958 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 49 | McNeill, Robert H. (son), 1930-1945, undated | ||||||||||||
(7 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 49 | McNeill, William C., Jr. (son), 1925, 1939-1958 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 49 | McNeill, William C., Sr. (husband), 1906 | ||||||||||||
BOX 49 | McNeill, William C., Sr. (husband), 1907, Apr.-Sept. | ||||||||||||
(4 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 49 | McNeill, William C., Sr. (husband), 1907, Oct. | ||||||||||||
BOX 50 | McNeill, William C., Sr. (husband), 1907, Oct. | ||||||||||||
BOX 50 | McNeill, William C., Sr. (husband), 1907, Nov.-Dec. | ||||||||||||
BOX 50 | McNeill, William C., Sr. (husband), 1908-1913 | ||||||||||||
(10 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 51 | McNeill, William C., Sr. (husband), 1920-1934, 1945-1951, undated | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 51 | Other relatives, 1937, 1958, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 51 | Walker, Kathernine McNeill (daughter), and family, circa 1931-1957, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 51 | Waring, Laura Wheeler (sister),1923-1929, 1943-1945, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 51 | Waring, Walter E. (brother-in-law), 1928-1958 | ||||||||||||
BOX 51 | Wheeler, Lloyd, and Arthur Wheeler (brothers), 1902-1908, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 51 | Wheeler, Robert F., and Mary C. Wheeler (parents), 1906-1915 | ||||||||||||
BOX 51 | General, 1906-1958, undated | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 51 | Get well cards and letters, 1956-1959, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 52 | Journals, 1935-1938 | ||||||||||||
(6 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 53 | Journals, 1939-1940 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 53 | Journals, 1941-1942 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 54 | Journals, 1941-1942 | ||||||||||||
BOX 54 | Journals, 1943-1944 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 55 | Journals, 1945-1946 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 55 | Journals, 1947-1948 | ||||||||||||
BOX 56 | Journals, 1947-1948 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 56 | Journals, 1949-1950 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 57 | Journals, 1951-1952 | ||||||||||||
(4 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 57 | Journals, 1953-1954 | ||||||||||||
BOX 58 | Journals, 1953-1954 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 58 | Journals, 1955-1956 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 58 | Journals, 1957-1958 | ||||||||||||
BOX 59 | Journals, 1957-1958 | ||||||||||||
BOX 59 | Journals, 1959 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 60 | Speeches and writings file | ||||||||||||
BOX 60 | Speeches and related material, 1925, 1935, 1942, undated | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 60 | Writings, undated | ||||||||||||
(7 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 61 | Subject file | ||||||||||||
BOX 61 | Anderson, Marian, 1939 | ||||||||||||
BOX 61 | Bible, 1911 | ||||||||||||
BOX 61 | Board of Education of the District of Columbia | ||||||||||||
BOX 61 | By-laws, Rules and Regulations for the Public Schools of the District of Columbia, 1937 | ||||||||||||
BOX 61 | By-laws, Rules, Regulations and Selected Statues for the Public Schools of the District of Columbia, 1906, 1926-1939 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 61 | Compilation of Laws Affecting the Public Schools of the District of Columbia, 1929 | ||||||||||||
BOX 62 | General, 1925-1928 | ||||||||||||
BOX 62 | General, 1929-1939, undated | ||||||||||||
(15 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 62 | Petitions, 1938 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 63 | Cards, fortune-telling and extrasensory perception, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 63 | Death, 1953-1959 | ||||||||||||
BOX 63 | Elementary school and junior high school, 1892-1898 | ||||||||||||
BOX 63 | Family | ||||||||||||
BOX 63 | Freeman, Amos Noë, and Christiana Freeman (grandparents), 1839-1910, 1951, undated | ||||||||||||
(4 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 63 | Genealogy, writings, notes, and chart, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 63 | McNeill, William, Jr. (son) 1923-1927 | ||||||||||||
BOX 63 | Miscellany, 1908-1913, 1929, 1943 | ||||||||||||
BOX 63 | Walker, Katherine McNeill (daughter) | ||||||||||||
BOX 63 | School papers, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 63 | Wedding, 1940 | ||||||||||||
BOX 64 | Waring, Laura Wheeler (sister), 1926-1970s, undated | ||||||||||||
(5 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 64 | Wheeler, Robert F. (father) 1874-1921, undated | ||||||||||||
(4 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 64 | Financial papers, 1926, 1947-1959 | ||||||||||||
BOX 65 | Hartford Public High School, Hartford, Conn. | ||||||||||||
BOX 65 | Annual, 1902 | ||||||||||||
BOX 65 | Catalog, tercentenary edition, 1941 | ||||||||||||
BOX 65 | Class papers, 1900-1902 | ||||||||||||
BOX 65 | General, 1902, 1942 See also Container OV 3, diploma, high school | ||||||||||||
BOX 65 | Report cards, 1898-1902 | ||||||||||||
BOX 65 | Miscellany, 1897-1913, 1925, 1937-1944, 1955, undated | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 65 | Music books and sheet music, circa 1890, 1911 | ||||||||||||
BOX 66 | Music books and sheet music, 1924, 1954-1959, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 66 | National Association of College Women, 1933-1937 | ||||||||||||
BOX 66 | Notebooks, 1912, 1920-1955, undated | ||||||||||||
(6 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 67 | Notes, 1955-1959, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 67 | Poetry, 1928-1957 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 67 | Postcards and art reproductions, 1910, 1916, 1929, 1957-1958, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 68 | Printed matter | ||||||||||||
BOX 68 | Books, 1891, 1904, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 68 | Clippings, 1929-1959 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 68 | Miscellaneous, 1933-1948, 1954, undated | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 68 | Programs, 1909-1913, 1937, 1949, 1955 | ||||||||||||
BOX 68 | Recipes, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 68 | Religious activities | ||||||||||||
BOX 68 | Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. | ||||||||||||
BOX 68 | General, 1934-1959 | ||||||||||||
BOX 69 | Music Committee, 1945-1953 | ||||||||||||
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