Certificate from Institute for Colored Youth

File — Box: W0113.01, Folder: 004

Certificate from Institute for Colored Youth, 1909

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Jennie C. Lee papers contain photographs; letters; telegrams; newspaper clippings; programs for assorted musical performances and dedications; pamphlets; publications; and circulars. Many appear to have been removed from scrapbooks; a large number of the photographs are still affixed to black scrapbook paper.

Volume one, 1891-1934, contains numerous photographs, loose and attached to scrapbook pages. There are several photographs of persons who are clearly Tuskegee Institute faculty members. Many have brief descriptions or names written on them. For example, one very small photograph has the inscription "choir and visitors - Roosevelt's visit '06."

Correspondence of significance includes a telegram from Booker T. Washington in 1903 inviting her to Tuskegee; a letter Booker T. Washington wrote to her in 1906; a letter Julius T. Rosenwald wrote to her in 1915 regarding a gift of $100 he gave her; and a letter from Tuskegee Institute principal Robert Moton at the time of her retirement in 1928.

Volume two, 1905-1938, is smaller than volume one, and it contains the same types of material. Correspondence of significance includes two letters from Roscoe C. Bruce.

Dates

Creation: 1891 - 1938

Creator

From the Collection: Lee, Jennie C. (Jennie Cheatham) (Person)
From the Collection: Washington, Booker T. (Person)
From the Collection: Williams, A. S., III (Collector, Person)

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