Subject: African American universities and colleges - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 7.0 linear feet (5 record boxes)
Abstract:: Correspondence, professional files, manuscripts, personal files, printed materials, and photographs of African American chemist and chemistry educator Henry C. McBay.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

Extent:: 4.0 linear feet
Abstract:: Ernest R. (Royal) Berry (1930-1992) was an educator, performer, traveler, and collector of art. Based in the Philadelphia area for most of his life, Berry spent much of his time from 1958-1965 in Europe, completing certificate programs, teaching classes, and performing as an actor and singer. Berry joined the faculty of Cheyney University and remained there as a professor of psychology for over 20 years. The Dr. Ernest Berry papers, 1944-1991, largely consist of materials relating to Berry's travels in Europe in the late 1950s and early 1960s, his career at Cheyney University and related legal battle, and a large amount of ephemera, especially playbills, from arts and cultural events Berry attended. It includes scrapbooks, photograph albums, correspondence, clippings, and ephemera.

Held at: African American Museum in Philadelphia [Contact Us]

Extent:: 120 boxes and 67.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of over 3000 miscellaneous items of primarily American literary, historical, and political figures, including business and personal letters, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and official documents.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Extent:: 2.07 linear feet (4 boxes, 10 volumes, 3 flat file items)
Abstract:: Wuanda M. T. Walls is a writer who was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, but raised in nearby Delaware County. She graduated from Chester High School in 1961 and Lincoln University in 1980. The Walls family was one of the core families of Hinsonville, Pennsylvania, a small African American community in Chester County that became the site of Lincoln University, the oldest black college in the United States. The collection documents the history of the Wallses and related families, Hinsonville, and Lincoln University Village. It includes family photos, correspondence, clippings, legal papers, diplomas and yearbooks, ephemera, an oral history audiocassette and transcript, a published essay (by Wuanda Walls) and two books on the history of Hinsonville, and other items. There is also some of Walls's own memorabilia, such as autographed photographs and programs, airplane tickets, and a program from the 1966 Newport Jazz festival.

Held at: Historical Society of Pennsylvania [Contact Us]

Extent:: 70.0 linear feet (67 record boxes, 1 hollinger box, 2 half hollinger boxes, 1 oversized hollinger box, and 2 cd-rom boxes.)
Abstract:: Correspondence, professional files, manuscripts, printed materials, notebooks, electronic storage materials, audio-visual materials, and photographic materials of African American theoretical chemist and chemistry educator William A. Lester, Jr.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

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