Allen-McFarland Family Papers

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Who's responsible?: Greensboro History Museum (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: Parts of this collection may not have been digitized (TBD).
Where can I find more information?: https://archives.greensborohistory.org/manuscripts/allen-mcfarland-family
Topics: Wartime
People
North Carolina
Subject headings: Greensboro (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century
Contributing Institution: Greensboro History Museum

: Bennett College; Image of Bennett College, a coeducational school founded in 1873 to educate former slaves before becoming a college for women in 1926.

: James B. Dudley High School Class of 1948; Members of the James B. Dudley High School graduating class of 1948 in their caps and gowns.

: James B. Dudley High School diploma; James B. Dudley High School diploma awarded to Joseph Haynes Watts.

: Loose scrapbook materials; This is a collection of loose ephemera possibly accumulated by Dorothy Allen. It includes newspaper clippings of Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, and the birth of the Fultz Quadruplets. Other items are: photos (including Bennett's last high school graduates and Laura Allen as a young woman), invitations (including one to Andra W. Allen's high school graduation), announcements, church hymns & programs, poetry, drawings, telegrams, an issue of the Bennett Banner, and a postcard of the rare radio program "Wings Over Jordan."

: Scrapbook; This scrapbook was most likely presented to Dorothy Allen McFarland by J.P. Allen in June 1940, possibly as a gift upon her graduation from Bennett College. The scrapbook includes a clipping of a class portrait of Ms. McFarland as part of the last high school graduating class at Bennett (1932?). Numerous photos show classmates, relatives, and friends from this period. The scrapbook also includes a clipping about Belle Tobias Curtis, a prominent Bennett College instructor who died suddenly on her honeymoon, senior class and baccalaureate programs (1940), a program for a presentation of "As You Like It" at Bennett (1940), and photos of Ms. McFarland's entire graduating class.

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