Alger Leroy Adams and Jessie M. Wells Adams papers
Scope and Contents
Materials relating to Alger Adams include a caricature of Adams, scrapbook of Adams’s columns for the Amsterdam News, a photograph of Adams’s colleague and society editor for Ebony magazine Gerri Major, and a letter of congratulations upon Adams’s receiving of an honorary degree.
Materials relating to Jessie Adams include a certificate of attainment for Houston public schools; a diploma from Phillis Wheatley School in Houston, Texas; an autograph and photograph album documenting her time at the school; a scrapbook documenting her time at Howard University; a letter of recommendation; and a photographic portrait of Wells.
Materials relating to the Daniels family include the marriage certificate of grandparents Eugene P. Daniels and Rebecca Jeff Daniels; marriage certificate of parents Arthur Simon and Eva Daniels Wells; the Daniels's family Bible; 2 photograph albums and 12 loose photographs (including 4 tinypes); and other papers.
Dates
- circa 1860s-1997
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
5 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
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Overview
Materials relating to Alger Adams include a caricature of Adams, scrapbook of Adams’s columns for the Amsterdam News, a photograph of Adams’s colleague and society editor for Ebony magazine Gerri Major, and a letter of congratulations upon Adams’s receiving of an honorary degree.
Materials relating to Jessie Adams include a certificate of attainment for Houston public schools; a diploma from Phillis Wheatley School in Houston, Texas; an autograph and photograph album documenting her time at the school; a scrapbook documenting her time at Howard University; a letter of recommendation; and a photographic portrait of Wells.
Materials relating to the Daniels family include the marriage certificate of grandparents Eugene P. Daniels and Rebecca Jeff Daniels; marriage certificate of parents Arthur Simon and Eva Daniels Wells; the Daniels's family Bible; 2 photograph albums and 12 loose photographs (including 4 tinypes); and other papers.
Alger Leroy Adams (1910-1992)
Jessie M. Wells Adams (1917-1997)
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- African American high school students -- Texas -- Pictorial works
- African American journalists -- New York (State)
- African American women -- Texas
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- Pictorial works
- African Americans -- New York (State)
- African Americans -- Portraits
- African Americans -- Texas -- Pictorial works
- Amsterdam news
- Caricatures
- Daniels family
- High school students -- Texas
- Howard University -- Students
- Journalists -- New York (State) -- 20th century
- Louisiana -- Pictorial works
- Major, Gerri, 1894-1984 -- Portraits
- Marriage certificates
- Photograph albums
- Photographic prints
- Photographs
- Scrapbooks
- Texas -- Pictorial works
- Tintypes (prints)
- Women -- West (U.S.)
- Title
- Guide to the Alger Leroy Adams and Jessie M. Wells Adams papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sarah Lerner
- Date
- October 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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