Guide to the Sarah Blue collection MSS.0177
Blue, Sarah
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
May 2009
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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English
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Sarah Blue collection
- Unit ID:
MSS.0177
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.2 Linear feet 1 book; 18 items
- Dates:
1894-circa 1915
- Abstract:
A collection of items, most of them relative to the 1915 high school graduation of Sarah Blue of Union Springs, Alabama, including a keepsake book, “My Golden School Days.”
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of a miscellany of items, most of them relating to the school days and, especially, the 1915 graduation of Sarah, of Union Springs, Alabama, High School. Among these items are several personal cards, presumably from Ms. Blue’s classmates, some of them inscribed with messages to her, a graduation announcement and program, a newspaper clipping reviewing a “graduation comedy” performed by a cast of which Ms. Blue played the leading role, and a keepsake book entitled “My Golden School Days,” most of the inscriptions in which are in a single hand, presumably Ms. Blue’s. The collection also includes three photographic portraits of unidentified individuals, and a letter of reference from Charles M. Cocke of Hollins Institute, Roanoke, Virginia, for Lucy Feagin as a teacher of elocution, dated 3 July 1894.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Sarah Blue collection, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Purchased from Cather & Brown Books, 1989 ; purchased by C&B from Feagi
Biographical/Historical note
Union Springs, Bullock County, Alabama schoolgirl.
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
None
- Usage Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Use note
None
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Unknown; updated by Andrew Harris, 2012
Source(s)
Blue , Sarah (local)
Alabama (localbroad)
Bullock County (Ala.) (lcsh)
Education (localbroad)
Education--Alabama (lcsh)
Letters (correspondence) (aat)
Memorabilia (aat)
Personal correspondence (aat)
Photographs (aat)
Students (localbroad)
Women (localbroad)
Sarah Blue collection Box 3117