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Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner (1945- ) was born in Washington D.C. on April 19, 1945 to Minerva Jenkins Jones (1908-2003), a school teacher and Thomas Edward Jones Sr. (1880-1958), an Army captain and surgeon. She attended Park View elementary school and Benjamin Banneker middle school in Washington D.C. She attended High Mowing High School, a private Waldorf school in New Hampshire. After graduating 1963, she married Philip Sanders Lapsansky in 1966 and began her studies in American History at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving her Bachelors in 1968 and her Masters in 1969. She continued her studies at the University of Pennsylvania and received her Ph.D. in American Civilization with a concentration in American Social History and Material Culture in 1975. She taught history at Moore College of Art, the Community College of Philadelphia, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University between 1973 and 1990. She also served as Associate Dean to the College of Arts and Sciences at Temple University between 1984 and 1986. In 1990 she accepted a dual position of Curator of Quaker and Special Collections and Associate Professor of History at Haverford College, where she became the first Black woman full professor at the college. After retiring from her position at Haverford College in 2005 she continued to lecture in classes at Haverford.
Emma Lapsansky-Werner serves the historical profession widely, she has given lectures and reviewed books on Philadelphia, Quaker, and Black history throughout her career for a large variety of venues and publications including The Journal of American History, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Library of Congress. She also authored and co-authored several papers and books including "Neighborhoods in Transition: William Penn's Dream and Urban Reality" (1994), "African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom" (2005), and "Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption" (2003). She was on the executive committee of the Organization of American Historians, and the redesign team for the National high school Advanced Placement curriculum . She has also served as consultant to the Philadelphia public school district, and dozens of museums in the United States, the Caribbean, and England.
Emma has three children, Jordan (1970-), Jeannette (1972-), and Charlotte Lapsansky (1979-). After Emma and Philip's divorce in 1984, Emma remarried to Dickson Werner in 2003.
Philip Sanders Lapsansky (Emma's first husband) was born on March 30, 1941. He married Emma Jones on August 15, 1966 and they had three children together, Jordan (1970- ), Jeannette (1972- ), and Charlotte Lapsansky (1979- ). He worked at the Library Company of Philadelphia between 1971 and 2012 as a research librarian and curator of African American history.
Minerva Jenkins Jones (Emma's mother) (1908-2003) was born to Jeannette Parker Jenkins (1880-1940) and Reverend Joseph Henry Jenkins Sr. (1874-1960). She attended the Miner Normal School in Washington D.C. and graduated from Douglass high school in Baltimore, Maryland in 1925. She received her Bachelor's in education from Howard University in 1930. On April 25, 1940 she married Thomas Edward Jones Sr. (1880-1958), an Army Captain and Surgeon-In-Chief at Freedman's Hospital. They had three children together, Thomas Edward Jones Jr. (1940-), Jeannette Minerva Jones (1942-), and Emma Jane Jones (1945-). She was employed as a teacher by the School District of Columbia.
Thomas Edward Jones Sr. (Emma's father) (5/26/1880-4/5/1958) was one of 104 African American physicians who served in World War I, and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre and the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross for his bravery in the September, 1917 Argonne Forest initiative which brought the Allied victory in World War I. After returning from the war, he resumed his position at Freedmen's Hospital, becoming by 1936, director of the hospital, just as it was transitioning to being Howard University Hospital. In that role he reported to Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes, who became his friend. He considered himself to be a "race man," and invested in properties in an all-Black town on the New Jersey shore, even though he had no intention of living there. At age 60, he retired from medicine, bought a 170-acre farm in Montgomery County MD in order to exercise his franchise (Washington DC residents could not vote) and spent the next 18 years as a gentleman dairy farmer. His purchase of the Maryland farm was also his way of aiming to reclaim farmland for Black Americans. His mother was Emma Glenn Jones (b. 1850) and his father, Campbell Jones (b. 1844 ), had been a farmer near Lynchburg, Virginia, where he sold vegetables at a Lynchburg Market that later was added to a historic register. On April 25, 1940 he married Minerva Jenkins Jones (1908-2003) and together they had three children Thomas Edward Jones Jr. (1940-), Jeannette Minerva Jones (1942-) and Emma Jane Jones (1945-).
Thomas Edward Jones Jr. (Emma's brother) (1940-) was born November 21, 1940 to Minverva Jenkins Jones (1908-2003) and Thomas Edward Jones Sr. (1880-1958). He attended Banneker Junior High School and Dunbar High School. He graduated from Howard University in 1966 with a degree in Law.
Jeannette Minverva Jones (Emma's sister) (1942-) was born August 8th, 1942 to Minvera Jenkins Jones (1908-2003) and Thomas Edward Jones Sr. (1880-1958). She married Harry S. Davis III (1942-) in 1962 and they had two children together, Thomas Edward Davis (1963-) and Laura Elizabeth Davis (1964-). She remarried to Fred Wallace in 1978 and they had one child together, Fred Wallace Jr. (1977).
Jeannette Parker Jenkins (Emma's grandmother) (1880-1940) was born to Patience Lavinia Hughes (1844-1926) and Rev. Eben E. Parker (1844-1933). She married Rev. Joseph Henry Jenkins Sr. (1874-1960) on November 30, 1905 and they had four children, Joseph Henry Jenkins Jr. (1906-1983), Minerva Elizabeth Jenkins (1908-2003), Cecie Roberta Jenkins (1910-1968), and Vivian Eulalia Jenkins (1911-1993). She was a suffragist-activist, church woman, and organizer of a West Virginia reading-group that provided college scholarships for women. She was a member of the Clarksburg, West Virginia Women's Study Club and the Woman's Home Missionary Society for the Methodist Church.
Joseph Henry Jenkins Sr. (Emma's grandfather) (1874-1960) was born on October 1, 1874 to Sophia Butler Jenkins (b. 1855) and James W. Jenkins (b. 1852), a farmer. He graduated from Morgan College in 1897. He married Jeannette Parker Jenkins (1880-1940) on November 30, 1905 and they had four children, Joseph Henry Jenkins Jr. (1906-1983), Minerva Elizabeth Jenkins (1908-2003), Cecie Roberta Jenkins (1910-1968), and Vivian Eulalia Jenkins (1911-1993). He served as a minister in the Methodist church.
Cecie Roberta Jenkins (Emma's aunt) (1910-1968) was born to Jeannette Parker Jenkins (1880-1940) and Reverend Joseph Henry Jenkins Sr. (1874-1960). She attended Dunbar High School and graduated from Howard University in 1928. She married Harold Erving Jones around 1952.
Joseph Henry Jenkins Jr.(Emma's uncle) (1906-1983) was born on September 9, 1906 to Jeannette Parker Jenkins (1880-1940) and Rev. Joseph Henry Jenkins Sr. (1874-1960). Joseph Henry Jenkins Jr. was among the first Black Phi Beta Kappa inductees at New York's Hamilton College, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1928. He then completed a Masters in English literature at Harvard University, and ABD (all but dissertation) at University of Minnesota, where he also taught in the 1940s. His teaching career included service at Fort Lee while on active service in the United States Army, Bluefield College, Spelman College, Virginia Union University, and Virginia State University where he became Chairman of the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. He chaired the Ad Hoc Committee for the Joseph Jenkins Robert's Memorial Monument (no relation) and was a Member of the Board of the Petersburg Historic Foundation. He was an active member of the First Unitarian Church of Richmond, where he served as President of the Congregation and Chairman of the Board of Stewards for three terms. He married Lillian Washington Jordan Jenkins (1905-1996) in 1956.
Lillian Washington Jordan Jenkins (Emma's aunt) (1905-1996) graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1929, she was one of only 45 Black women to earn a BA from Wellesley College before 1960. Lillian lived in Liberia from 1946-48 with her former husband Harold B. Jordan, while he was serving as U.S. Dept of Health Chief Warrant officer. She remarried to Joseph Henry Jenkins Jr. in 1956. She held a leadership role in VOKAL (Virginia Organization to make Abortion Legal) during the 1980s and was the first Black woman on the national board of the Unitarian-Universalist church.
Theophilus Parker (Emma's great uncle) (1877-1970) was born May 20, 1877 to Patience Lavinia Hughes (1844-1926) and Rev. Eben E. Parker (1844-1933). He was a graduate of the Quaker-run Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the first family member to receive a college degree, graduating from Morgan State College in the 1880s, where he later returned as a teacher. After completing his graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, he entered the field of education as a teacher of mathematics at Princess Ann Academy (now Maryland State College), Morgan State College and University of Monrovia in Monrovia, Africa. He later became the principal of the High School in Roanoke Virginia, Mechanical College in Normal Alabama. In recognition of his educational achievements he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy Degree. He was an organizing member of the Principals Club of Delaware, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Morgan State College Alumni Association and Whatcoat United Methodist Church of Dover Delaware.
Cecie Parker Henry (Emma's great aunt) (1884-1985) was born on November 4th, 1884 to Patience Lavinia Hughes (1844-1926) and Rev. Eben E. Parker (1844-1933). She was the first African American to serve on the Dover, Delaware school board (ca. 1960), and her pharmacy degree (1920), may have been Temple University's first to a Black woman. She spent much of her life organizing the National Colored Parents and Teachers Association, serving as its president in the 1930s and 1940s, and speaking before Congress in support of education for the hearing-impaired. She married William Walter Massey Henry (1886-1948) on December 25th, 1912.
Dr. William Walter Massey Henry (Emma's great uncle)(1886-1948) was born to Georgianna Henry (1849-1937) and Carl Henry (1885-1948). He graduated from Delaware State College in 1905 and became the first Black physician to practice in southern Delaware. He served as president of the Kent region NAACP, and as a trustee of Delaware State College. A public school in Dover Delaware is named in his honor. Incidentally, he was also the family physician for Harold Weaver (graduate of Haverford college ca. 1965- associate at Harvard's Hutchins Center for African American research). He married Cecie Parker (1884-1985) on December 12, 1912.
Vivian Jenkins Tellis (Emma's aunt) (1911-1993) was born on October 4, 1911 to Jeannette Parker Jenkins (1880-1940) and Reverend Joseph Henry Jenkins Sr. (1874-1960). She attended Dunbar High School in Washington D.C., where she was salutatorian of her graduating class. She matriculated at Howard University at the age of 15 and graduated in 1931 with a major in Latin and minors in English and French. She earned her masters in English in 1934. She worked as a high school teacher in Denton, Maryland and Roanoke, Virginia for several years. In Dover she also taught and later became principal at the State College High School. Simultaneously, she taught English at Delaware State College, it was here that she met Claude E. Tellis (1907-1995) who she married circa 1943. They had one child together, Claude J. Tellis (1945-). The family then moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Vivian continued her teaching career becoming the Director of the first Honors Program at Southern University. In 1965 she joined her husband on the faculty at Alcorn State University where she was Professor of English and Chairman of the Department of Humanities, retiring in 1977. She was an active member of Camphor Memorial United Methodist Church, a member of the United Methodist Women, and a golden Soror of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
Claude J. Tellis (Emma's cousin) (1945-) was born November 30, 1945 to Vivian Jenkins Tellis (1911-1993) and Claude E. Tellis (1907-1995). He was Louisiana State University's first Black medical-school graduate in 1970. After a career in pulmonary specialties at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington DC, (where he earned the rank of colonel) he joined Louisiana's Oshner Clinic, and in retirement has been speaking and publishing on the health effects of climate change. He married Evelyn Robinson (1943-) on June 20, 1970. They had two children together, Natalie Yvonne Tellis (1972-) and Claude Tellis Jr. (1973-).
Claude Tellis Jr. (Emma's cousin once removed) (1973-) was born to Evelyn Robinson (1943-) and Claude J. Tellis (1945-). He has pioneered healthy food for Los Angeles CA schools, and devoted his career to promoting dietary programs to combat and relieve nutrition-caused health problems that are common in Black communities.
Enoch P. Waters (Emma's first cousin) (1909-1987) was born to Addie G. Parker (1873-1968) and Enoch Waters Sr. (1874-1954). Enoch graduated college in 1933. He worked for The Chicago Defender, one of the nation's largest Black daily newspapers, for 23 years. He rose to the position of executive editor before he left in 1957 to become editor of The Associated Negro Press, a wire service that served about 150 Black weekly newspapers. He published his book "American Diary: A Personal History of the Black Press" in 1977.
Note: For more information see the genealogy series Sources: from the collection, donor family notes and Ancestry.com
The collection holds material primarily related to the life and career of Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner (1945-), History Professor and Curator of Special Collections at Haverford College from 1990-2005. The collection also holds records of family members from Emma's maternal lineage dating back to 1880 including members from the Jenkins, Parker and Hughes families.
Many of Emma's professional records are held in the collection, including notes for and copies of public talks she gave at a variety of educational events, copies of her published book reviews, materials related to her career at Haverford College, and working drafts for several books Emma authored on Philadelphia, Quaker, and Black history.
The Home Life series contains personal correspondence during her time in High Mowing High School in the 1960s with many artifacts from her early life including journals, and an autograph book.
The rest of the collection is devoted to material from Emma's maternal lineage dating back to her great grandparents Patience Lavinia Hughes (1844-1926) and Eben E. Parker (1844-1933) through the following five generations. The genealogy series holds a family tree and notes Emma has written about her family members highlighting their achievements. Records from family history include photographs, diplomas, legal documents, newspaper clippings, correspondence, organization membership materials, scrapbooks, high school yearbooks, school notebooks, and a family bible with genealogical information, amongst many other materials.
Emma's portion of the collection is broken down by the genre of material. The short essays and talks sub-series includes research, correspondence, speaking notes and copies of talks and lectures she gave at a variety of educational institutions and events. The book review sub-series includes drafts, correspondence, and published copies of book reviews that Emma authored for newspapers and journals. The books sub-series contains correspondence, working drafts, research and copies of books that Emma authored and co-authored. The projects sub-series contains material and correspondence related to various boards Emma served on, committees she was a part of and conferences she helped organize. The publicity sub-series includes flyers, brochures, newspaper clippings and schedules for events that Emma participated in as a speaker or presenter. The Haverford sub-series includes professional correspondence, college publications Emma was featured in and reports from programs she headed. The professional correspondence series holds correspondence from various institutions, journals and publications that Emma was involved with in the 1980s and 1990s. The school sub-series contains school notebooks from elementary school through her Ph.D. studies. The home life sub-series holds journals and personal correspondence from her teenage years into her adulthood.
The portion of the collection devoted to her family is broken down into family branches, starting out first with materials from her mother and father Minerva Jenkins and T.E. Jones Sr. which includes correspondence, photographs, and professional records. The next series is Emma's grandparents, Jeannette Parker Jenkins and Joseph Henry Jenkins Sr. which includes the Parker family bible and material from professional organizations they were involved with. The following series is Joseph Henry Jenkins Jr. and Lillian Washington Jenkins (Emma's aunt and uncle). This series includes high school yearbooks, scrapbooks, newspaper articles and material related to Joseph H. Jenkins Jr.'s career as a college professor. The following series is for Theophilus Parker, Cecie Parker Henry and William Walter Massey Henry, Emma's great aunt and uncles. This series includes school materials related to Cecie and William's studies in pharmacy and medicine and newspaper articles and essays written by Theophilus on education for Blacks. The following series is for the Tellis family, including Vivian Jenkins Tellis (Emma's aunt), Claude J. Tellis (Emma's cousin) and Claude J. Tellis Jr. (Emma's first cousin once removed). It includes Vivian's obituary, and a presentation and interview by Claude Sr. and Claude Jr., respectively. The next series is for Enoch P. Waters (Emma's first cousin) and includes an essay and book he authored. The following series is family photographs and the final series is certificates and diplomas, holding oversize college diplomas and certificates for Emma's family members.
Gift of Emma Lapsansky, December 2019
Processed by Janeen Lamontagne, June 2022
People
- Jenkins-Jones, Minerva, 1908-2000
- Jones, Thomas Edward, Sr., 1880-1958
- Parker-Jenkins, Jeannette, 1880-1940
- Jenkins, Joseph Henry, Sr., 1874 - 1960
- Lapsansky, Philip, 1941-
- Jenkins, Joseph Henry, Jr., 1906-1983
- Washington-Jenkins, Lillian, 1905-1995
- Parker, Theophilus, 1877-1970
- Parker-Henry, Cecie, 1884-1985
- Henry, William Walter Massey, 1886-1948
- Jenkins-Tellis, Vivian, 1911-1993
- Tellis, Claude, Sr., 1945-
- Waters, Enoch P., 1909-1987
Organization
Subject
- Universities and colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Haverford
- African American Quakers
- African American students
- African American students -- History -- Sources
- African American soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources
- African American soldiers -- History -- Sources
- African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources
- African American women -- Political activity -- History -- Sources
- African American school superintendents
- African American college teachers
- African American authors
- African American pharmacists
- African American historians
- African American teachers
- African American families
- African American clergy
- African American social reformers
- African American surgeons
- Scholars, Black
- Black people in medicine
- African Americans -- Suffrage
- Publisher
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- Janeen Lamontagne
- Finding Aid Date
- June, 2022
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research use
- Use Restrictions
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Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17)
Collection Inventory
Photocopy of a book by Emma Lapsansky for the Philadelphia Historical Commission with annotations.
Includes: correspondence, tv schedules, lecture notes, and biography for a presentation Emma gave on tv for Voice of America's Black Americans program.
Talk by Phillip S. and Emmma Laspanksy prepared for the American Studies Association
Correspondence with various people and institutions regarding Emma Lapansky's talks and lectures.
An essay published in American Quarterly Vol. 32, Spring 1980, No. 1 by the American Studies Association.
Offprint from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume CVIII, Number 1.
An essay published in "Red, White and Blue, Childhood and Citizenship" for an exhibition put on at the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia.
An article by Emma published in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
Published in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. CXIV, No. 1.
Pennsylvania History Studies No. 21, The Pennsylvania Historical Assocation, University Park.
Includes: an annotated copy of an article by Emma.
Includes: correspondence with the University of Buffalo, lecture and biography of Bruce Lapsansky
Emma's research for an unknown publication. Includes articles with annotations and pages of notes.
Research and notes for talk.
Research, draft and pamphlets from the Pennyslvania Historical Association 66th annual meeting.
Notes, research and draft.
Notes, annotations and a letter from a USS Mason panel discussion that Emma moderated at the Independence Seaport Museum.
Notes, research and correspodence for a talk Emma gave at the inaguuration of Thomas Tritton as president of Haverford College.
A paper presented by Emma to the Organization of American Historians at the 1997 annual conference.
Notes and annotations for a talk Emma gave called "Expanding the Inner Light: Native America" about Quakers and Native Americans.
Research with annotations and notes for a talk that Emma gave at a Gynwedd Pa. Quaker meeting.
Includes: notes, correspondence and materials related to the conference.
Includes: correspondence, notes and entries for Philadelphia and Quakers that Emma submitted to the Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture.
Notes, email and pamphlet for a talk and workshop Emma gave as part of a teacher's workshop at the Independence Park Institute.
Notes and further reading suggestions for a talk Emma gave at Atwater Keny Museum.
notes and research with annotations for a talk that Emma gave at the New York Yearly Meeting representative meeting
Correspondence, notes and a draft for a lecture Emma gave at Newport Historical Society for their lecture series, "Family, Faith, and Testimony: 300 years of the Society of Friends in Newport".
Drafts, notes and annotations for articles written on The Royal African Company, the Great Awakening, Cities and Urban Life, Cherokee Indians, Peter Kalm and other subjects by Emma Lapsansky for an encyclopedia on early american history. Includes email correspondence with Billy Smith about deadlines.
Correspondence, notes and a draft for a presentation Emma gave at the Historical Society in Western Pennsylvania.
Talk given at Chester Quarterly Meeting.
Notes and research with annotations for a talk that Emma gave with the School District of Philadelphia.
Includes: a copy of The Women's Review of Books Vol. XIX, No.5 with an article by Emma on page 22.
Notes, correspondence and research with annotations for a talk Emma Lapsansky and Anne Verplanck did for the Philadelphia Museum of Art's teacher program "Through Many Eyes: Material Culture and its Interpreters 1780-1890".
Brochure, notes and research with annotations from a talk Emma gave at the Cliveden Institute conference.
Notes and annotations for a talk Emma gave at Drexel University.
Notes and correspondence for a talk Emma did at the Barclay Farmstead house as part of their semi-annual Interpreters' Workshop.
Draft with annotations and notes for a talk Emma gave at Pendle Hill.
Notes, correspondence, brochure and thank you notes for a talk Emma did as part of the Fairmount Park House Guides.
An essay by Emma published in OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 17, Number 2.
Draft, notes and annotated research for a talk Emma gave for the School District of Philadelphia.
Correspondence, drafts, notes and research with annotations for a series of talks Emma gave for the School District of Philadlephia's "Race, Class and Ethnicity" professional development series for teachers. Talks titled "From Subject to Citizen: Race, Class, and Ethnicity" and "Pray for the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living:Race, Class and Ethnicity".
Lecture notes for a talk on womanhood at Kendal corporation.
An essay by Emma published in the Journal of American History, Vol. 90, No.4.
Includes: email correspondence, schedule, notes and printed slides from a talk Emma gave for the Philadelphia Museum of Art's VAST program.
Includes: contract, correspondence, draft and research with annotations for an article on Philadelphia that Emma wrote for the American History through Literature book.
Includes: email correspondence, notes, an essay, a syllabus and research with annotations for a talk on Quaker Values that Emma gave at George Fox Univeristy for their second year faculty orientation course.
Notes from a talk Emma gave about Hope Lodge.
Includes: talk notes with annotations.
Includes: event pamphlets and email correspondence about the panel discussion for the book "Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World".
Correspondence, printed slides with annotation and notes for a presentation of a lecture Emma created for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council Grant presented at Neumann College's Life Long Learning Program.
A lecture Emma gave on William Penn and the Quakers for a Heritage Philadelphia Program funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Includes printed slides with annotations and correspondence.
Includes: email correspondence regarding the article written for the Pennsylvania Abolition Society's publication, research with annotations, a draft of the article, and a published copy of the essay.
Includes: email correspondence, a program and notes for the talk.
Includes: notes, an annotated essay by Emma and an extended reading resources list for the talk.
Includes: talk notes with annotations and scheudle for Benstitute.
Includes: Lecture, extended reading list, notes and research with annotations.
Includes: email correspondence, research with annotations and a lecture titled "In the four generations after the American Revolution, Philadelphia African Americans shaped a community that provided world-wide leadership- political, social, economic, religious, and artistic. How'd they do that?".
Includes: notes for talk for the School District of Philadelphia on ethnicity.
Includes: email correspondence, notes, research with annotations and lecture.
Includes: syllabus and lectures for a guest presentation that Emma gave as part of an English class at the University of Delaware.
Includes: lecture, recommended reading list, schedule and email correspondence for the Benstitute 2006 program.
Inlcudes: research with annotations and an extended reading list for a lecture Emma gave on Philadelphia dn 19th century immigrants.
Includes: correspondence, notes and lecture from a talk that Emma gave at the Library of Congress on Benjamin Franklin.
Includes: lecture notes with annotations and reseach with annotations.
Includes: notes, lecture and quiz.
Includes: research with annotations, lecture notes and event pamphlets from a lecutre Emma gave as part of a workshop for the Rural History Confederation.
Includes: Lecture with annotations, printed slides and an extended reading list.
Includes: email correspondence and lecture that was given at Sandy Spring Friends School.
Includes: lecture for History Day Institute titled Black Philadelphia 1787-1860.
Includes: correspondence between Dee Andrews and Emma Lapsansky who collaborated on the piece, drafts with annotations, notes, a proposal and research with annotations.
Includes: a Philadelphia Inquirer article by Emma titled "William Penn's Holy Experiment Stands the Test of Time", an event pamphlet, and a flyer from a panel discussion that Emma participated in for the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.
Includes: a CD-ROM with power point presentation from an unnamed lecture.
Includes: correspondence, pamphlets, flyers, and annotated lecture from the John S. Rock Memorial lecture held by the Salem County Historical Society.
Includes: lecture with annotations.
Presentation materials for the Organization of American Historians, given by Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Lawrence Charap, and Ted Dickinson.
Includes: annotated lecture, college pamphlets and a Guilford College newsletter with an article on Emma.
Printed slides with notes for a talk that Emma gave titled "The World Black Philadelphia Made: 1800-1870" at the African American Museum in Philadelphia
Lecture notes with annotations on Benjamin Franklin
Emma's lecture notes with annotations on the arrival of the 1688 Germatown anti-slavery statement.
Book review by Emma for "Against the Flow: The Women of West Philadelphia", author unidentifiable.
Book review by Emma published in The Journal of American History for "America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches", by Maria W. Stewart, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Book review by Emma for "The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition", by Thomas P. Slaughter. Review published in Journal of American Ethnic History.
Book review by Emma for "Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism", by Shirley J. Yee. Published in Journal of Southern Histories Vol. 59, No. 3.
Book review by Emma for "Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition", by Joanne M. Braxton. Published in Pennsylvania Magazine of History.
Book review by Emma for " Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865-1915: A Social History", by Thomas C. Cox. Review was published in The Journal of American History.
Book review by Emma for " But We Have No Country: The 1851 Christiana Pennsylvania Resistance", by Ella Forbes.
Book review by Emma for "Children of Strangers: The Stories of a Black Family", by Kathryn L. Morgan, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Book review by Emma for "Christ in All Things: Exploring Spirituality with Teilhard de Chardin", by Ursula King.
Book review by Emma for "Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Enduring Legacy of African-American Families", by Andrew Billingsley.
Book review by Emma for "Econovide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition", by Seymour Dreischer, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.
Book review by Emma for "Empire, Society, and Labor: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Dunn", edited by Nicholas Canny, et al. Published in Journal of Early Republic.
Correspondence related to Emma's review of the book Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship.
Book review by Emma for "A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City", by Erica Armstrong Dunbar.
A book review by Emma for "Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath", by Gary B. Nash and Jean R. Soderlund. Published in Quaker History Fall 1992.
Book review by Emma for "God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform 1842-1846", by Thomas D. Hamm.
Book review by Emma for "The Journal of Elias Hicks", edited by Paul Buckely.
Book review by Emma for "The Kaleidoscopic Lens: How Hollywood Views Ethnic Groups", edited by Randall M. Miller. Review was published in Journal of American History.
It is unclear whether Emma is the author of this review or editor of the review for "Levi Coffin, Quaker: Breaking the Bonds of Slavery in Ohio and Indiana", by Mary Ann Yannessa.
Book review by Emma for "Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August: African Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs, 1870-1930", by Myra B. Young Armstead.
Draft of a book review by Emma for "Mary Grew, Abolitionist and Feminist 1813-1896", by Ira Brown.
A copy of The Women's Review of Books Vol. XX No. 9 with a review by Emma of Emily Binghman's book Mordecai: An Early American Family. Includes correspondence and draft with annotations as well.
Draft of a review by Emma for "Nixon's First Cover-Up: The Religous Life of a Quaker President", by H. Larry Ingle.
Book review by Emma for "One More Day's Journey", by Allen Ballard in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Book review by Emma for "Philadelphia's Black Elite: Activism, Accommodation, and the Struggle for Autonomy", by Julie Winch, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. Review was published in the Journal of the Early Replublic.
Review by Emma for "Philadelphians and The China Trade 1784-1844", by Jean Gordon Lee, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984.
Book review by Emma for "Richard R. Wright and the National Negro Bankers Association: Early Efforts Toward Financial Organization Among Black Bankers, 1924-1942", by Alexa Henderson, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Includes a book review by Emma for "Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia", by Roger Lane and correspondence. Published in The Journal of American History.
Book review by Emma Lapsansky for "Sister of the Spirit", by William L. Andrews. Review was published in Journal of American History.
Book review by Emma for "Sojourner Truth: a Life, a Symbol", by Nell Irvin Painter.
Book review by Emma for "Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend", by Carleton Mabee. Review published in Quaker History Vol. 3 No. 2 Fall 1994.
Book review by Emma for "Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940", by Robert Gregg.
Draft of a review by Emma for "Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation", edited by Cain Felder. The review was published in Friends Journal.
Book review by Emma for "The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810", by Selwyn Carrington, Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Review was published in Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History.
Book review by Emma for " To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance", by Peter P. Hinks, University Park Pennsylvania: Penn State Press.
Correspondence and review by Emma for "W.E.B. DuBois, Race and the City", edited by Michael Katz and Thomas Sugrue. Review was published in Pennsylvania History, A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies.
Book review by Emma for "William and Sarah Biddle, 1633-1711: Planting a Seed of Democracy in America", by C. Miller Biddle.
Book review by Emma for "Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and its Aftermath", by Gary B. Nash and Jean R. Soderlund.
A book review by Emma for "God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform 1842-1846", by Thomas D. Hamm, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Correspondence related to the proposal, research, editing, copyright and publishing of "Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America 1848-1880", edited by Emma Lapsasnsky and Margaret Bacon.
Includes: library requests, indexes, lists and correspondence related to research conducted by Emma Lapsansky for the Benjamin Coates book.
Includes: Notes, lists, and annotated photocopies of research for the Benjamin Coates book Emma was working on.
Unedited draft of "Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America 1848-1880", edited by Emma Lapsansky and Margaret Bacon. The original name for the book was ""A View to Encourage Emigration": Benjamin Coates and Colonization, 1848-1880".
"Quakers and Colonization: The Dilemma of Benjamin Coates", essay by Margaret Bacon, edited by Emma Lapsansky.
Includes: bibliography and draft with annotations from a 3rd reader.
Annotated "Final edits prepared from this draft", for the book on Benjamin Coates.
Book review by Kate Masur in The Journal of Southern History for "Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 1848-1880", edited by Emma Lapsansky-Werner and Margaret Hope Bacon.
Correspondence between Emma and editors.
Correspondence from publishing company Pearson/Addison Wesley Longman
Notes regarding planning of book structure.
Annotated draft and editor's comments for chapter 6 titled "Slavery and Freedom in the Early Republic".
Correspondence and annotated drafts for chapter 7 of "African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom"
Prospectus for the book with rationale and context to be shown to publisher.
Review questionnaries about the book completed by teachers, correspondence and notes from conference calls.
Correspondence and annotated draft for chapter 7 titled ""Colored" Americans in the Reform Era, 1830s to 1850s". First to second draft.
Correspondence and draft of chapter 8 titled "Increased Oppression, Increased Resistance" with editor's notes.
Annotated drafts, annotated research and correspondence with editor for chapter 8 titled "A Prelude to War: The 1850s".
Correspondence and draft for chapter 9 titled, "Civil War and a Tentative Promise of Freedom: The Turbulent 1860s".
Correspondence and annotated drafts for chapter 9 titled "Civil War and the Promises of Freedom: The Turbulent 1860s" from 1st to 2nd draft.
Draft for chapter 10 titled "Reconstruction in Black and White: Post Civil War America",
Correspondence, 1 draft annotated by an editor and 1 unedited draft of Chapter 11, later Chapter 12, titled " The Post-Reconstruction Era: Avenues and Roadblocks to Progress".
Draft of chapter 12 titled ""Colored Becomes "Negro" in the Progressive Era".
Draft of chapter 12 annotated by editor Ann Grogg with correspondence.
Annotated draft for Chapter 12 titled ""Colored" Becomes "Negro" in the Progressive Era"
Correspondence and annotated drafts for chapter 13 of Emma's book "African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom".
A draft of Chapter 13, no annotations.
Annotated drafts, correspondence and reviews for "Chapter 13, old chapter 12" titled ""Colored" Becomes "Negro" in the Progressive Era".
Correspondence and annotated drafts for chapter 14 titled "The Making of a "New Negro": World War I to the Great Depression".
Editors notes between Ann Grogg and Clay Carson about chapter 16 titled "Fighting Facism Abroad and Racism at Home".
Research materials annotated by Emma.
Editorial reviews from teachers and professors about Emma's book "African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom" submitted during the writing process.
Preview book for teachers considering purchasing, includes chapters 2 and 15 with feedback survey at the end.
Publisher: Pearson Longman.
Publisher: Pearson Longman
Spiral bound copy of "Before the Model City: An Historical Exploration of North Philadelphia", by Emma Jones Lapsansky.
Includes: a review for "Black Presence in Pennsylvania", by Emma Lapsansky published in The Public Historian Vol. 16 No. 4, and reviews for "Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption", edited by Emma Lapsansky and Anne Verplanck in the Haverford Alumni Magazine, Winter 2003 and the Winterthur Portfolio 38:1
Includes: correspondence and materials related to Emma's role as outside evaluator for Abington Art Center's "The Lost Meeting Project" through the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.
Correspondence related to Emma's role as reader and evalutator of several books.
Materials related to Emma's role as site evaluator for the Independence National Historical Park review in Philadelphia.
Includes: brochures, bibliography, newspaper articles and correspondence related to the "Empowering Young Girls to Value Themselves and Their Future" conference Emma produced for Neumann College.
Correspodence from Scribe Video Center about Emma's role as advisor for a project about free African communities in Philadelphia produced by Scribe.
Correspondence, questionnaries and workbook from the "My History is America's History", workshop that Emma served as evaluator for put on by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.
Correspondence, agenda and notes from Emma's role on the PHMC review panel.
Correspondence, application, and news articles related to The Pennsylvania Humanities Council grant to the Germantown Historical Society for the Centennial Project Preservation Forum and Workshops, which Emma served as outside evaluator for.
Correspondence regarding a proposal for a program at the annual Organization of American Historians meeting for a program Emma collaborated on titled "Religion and Social Activism: Black, White and Urban".
Includes correspondence and notes by Emma evaluating the teaching package titled "Booker T. Washington and Appomattox Court House", put together by the National Park Service.
Photos from Carribean museums with annotations
Flyers, schedules, brochures and other printed ephemera that advertise events Emma was involved with including workshops, talks, advisory committees and presentations.
Newspaper articles and photocopies publicizing events Emma was invovled with as a speaker, historian or curator.
Special collections reports from when Emma was curator of Quaker and Special Collections at Haverford College, issues include introductory letters written by Emma.
Newsletter features an article "Emma Lapsansky Named Curator of Library's Quaker Collection" with a biography and photo of Emma.
Issues of the Haverford Alumni magazine that feature articles on Emma with photographs.
Haverford campaign report magazines featuring photos of Emma and an article on her in the 2000-2004 issue.
Talk notes, correspondence, flyers and brochures for talks that Emma gave at Haverford College.
Includes correspondence, biographical information and speech notes for an introduction that Emma gave for Bernice Johnson Reagon at Haverford's commencement ceremony.
An article titled "Historians as Detectives" with discussion of Emma's role as curator of Quaker and Special Collections.
Annual meeting program and notes from a talk Emma gave on the Quaker and Special Collections.
A news article about Emma's visiting professorship and new role as curator of Quaker and Special Collections at Haverford College with interview and photo.
NEH proposal seeking funding for increasing access to Quaker collection.
Quaker Collection summer internship for high school students program report
Includes correspondence with colleagues, universities and various organizations.
Includes correspondence with colleagues, universities and organizations.
Report cards with notes from teachers and Emma's mother, citizenship and honor roll certificates from Park View elementary school and Banneker Junior High School.
Reprints of articles from The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science titled "Controlling Subversive Groups", "The Bill of Rights", and "The Case for Judicial Protection of Civil Liberties".
Emma's notebook from music class at Banneker Junior High School.
Emma's annotated Latin text book from Banneker Junior High School, titled "A Year with the Classics for Junior and Senior High Schools", by Annette Eaton and Lorraine Heathcock.
Material and information from the American Friends Service Committee on their High School Programs and work camps with Emma's application.
Emma's history class notebook from High Mowing High School.
Keepsake books from Emma's High School High Mowing, with stories, illustrations and photographs. Includes short notes to Emma from high school classmates over the years.
Emma's notebooks for History through Art: Renaissance class at High Mowing High School.
2 10"x7.5" black and white photographs from Emma's graduation at High Mowing High School. One photo of her receiving her diploma and one photo of the entire class. Also includes envelope of cards with classmates' names and contact information.
Emma's notebook from chemistry class at High Mowing High School.
Emma's geometry class notebook from High Mowing High School.
Emma's notebooks from geometry and earth science classes at High Mowing High School.
High Mowing High School class schedules for Emma's sophmore year.
Emma's notebooks from earth science class at High Mowing High School.
D.A.T. (differential apptitude test) interpretation and Emma's scores from Junior High School.
Geometry tool kit in zipper case
3 3.5"x5" B&W High School portrait photos of Emma
A letter re. scholarship approval at Drew University and a copy of Emma's college entrance exam writing sample.
Emma's notebook from her undergrad studies at Universtiy of Pennsylvania.
Emma's notebook from her undergrad studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's notebook from her undergrad studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's notebook from her undergrad studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's history notebook from her B.A. in American history at University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's notebook from her undergrad studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's notebook from her undergrad studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's notebook for a class titled "New World "Negro"" which she took for her undergraduate studies in American History at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's notebook from her undergrad studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's notebook from her undergrad studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Site report by Emma for her American Civilization class in Histortic Site Archaeology titled "Excavation in the basement of the Kensington Methodist Episcopal Church northeast corner of Marlborough and Richmond Streets, Philadelphia, PA."
Emma's notebook from her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's notebook from her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's notebook from her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's notebook from her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's notebook from her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Notebook Emma used for American Civilization classes in her PhD studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's notebook from her doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Notecards for Emma's doctoral dissertation in American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's Masters and PhD diplomas from the University of Pennsylvania.
Correspondence regarding Emma's interest in applying for the Bicentennial College's post-doctoral program (became Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies).
College notebook for an unidentified class during Emma's studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma's babybook filled out by her mother Minerva Jenkins and a photocopy of Emma's live birth certificate
Autographs and notes from family, friends and classmates
Personal correspondence sent to Emma in Banneker Junior High School and High Mowing High School.
Vol. 5, No. 11. Magazine of Emma's.
Personal correspondence sent to Emma while she was at High Mowing High School.
Personal correspondence sent to Emma while she was in High Mowing High School.
Personal correspondence sent to Emma when in High Mowing High School.
A journal and record book started by Emma in 1963, includes notes, lists of books she read, letters and other materials inserted in.
10 8"x10" black and whtie photos from Emma Jones and Phil Lapsansky's wedding with photos of the couple and their families, wedding invitations and a key for the Madison Inn.
Correspondence with friends and family.
A letter from Emma's husband Phil Lapsansky to her.
Incoming Christmas letters from Emma's family and friends.
Lapsansky family Christmas letters written by Emma to be sent to family and friends. Includes updates on her children, career and second marriage.
Correspondence, notes and family tree from a family reunion Emma planned
Photos of Emma and her children on a trip to Japan and holiday family photos
Correspondence with friends and family
Cards and letters sent to Emma from friends and family
Lansdowne Friends Meeting directories and correspondence
Correspondence regarding the care of friend Svend Holsoe and obituary for his partner John Hatcher McCollum
A catalog of movies Emma owned on VHS tape
Program for Gwyneth Bacon's memorial service with notes from a speech Emma gave
Childhood camp letters from Emma's daughter Charlotte to Emma.
Photos of Jordan Lapsansky, Emma Jones Lapsansky, Phil Lapsansky, Ed and Anne Ruff, Miche Lapsasnky and Elsa Lapsansky
Includes an article by Philip Lapsansky, curartor of " African American" History at the Library Company of Philadelphia titled " African- Americana, Christianity and Colonization"
A newspaper article about a scrapbook with an 1862 tax form and Civil War memorabilia that Philip Lapsansky found while working as a research librarian at the Library Company of Philadelphia, other articles about Philip's work as African American History Curator at the Library Company of Philadelphia
Philip Lapsansky: Appreciations, a collection of essays honoring Philip S. Lapsansky on his retirement after more than forty years of service to the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1971-2012
Research Emma conducted on her Mother's family's history. Includes family tree and family history information
Genealogical research information on Philip Lapsansky's family history. Includes family tree, passenger ship information, naturalization forms, family history.
Cards and notes from family and friends, photos of family and friends including Laura and Thomas Davis, Fred Wallace, Jordan, Jeannette, and Charolotte Lapsansky, Natalie Tellis and Claude Jenkins Tellis Jr., Tracey Armstrong, Claude Tellis, Claude Jenkins Tellis, and Vivian Jenkins Tellis, Carol-Ann Patti Parker, Dr. T. Edward Jones, Emma Jones Lapsansky and Phil Lapsasnky, Jeannette Davis, Cecie Jenkins, Thomas Edward Jones Jr., Evelyn Tellis, Minerva Jenkins Jones and other unidentified people.
Photos of Minerva's grandchildren Laura Davis, Thomas Davis, Fred Wallace Jr., Jordan Lapsansky, Charlotte Lapsansky, Minerva's daughters Emma Jones Lapsansky and Jeannette Jones Davis, Minerva's son Thomas E. Jones Jr., Fred Wallace Sr., Minerva's friend Helen Atkins and her daughter Melanie Atkins Anderson and Melanie's daughter Stephanie Spears, Minerva's husband Dr. T. Edward Jones, Minerva's father Joseph Henry Jenkins, Minerva's mother Jeannette Parker Jenkins, Theophilas Parker, Minerva's sisters Cecie and Vivian Jenkins and her brother Thomas Jenkins Jr., William Roberts
A program from Minerva's high school graduation at Frederick Douglass high school
3"x4" color photograph of Vivian Jenkins with notes and 2"x3" black and white photo of Cecie Roberta Jenkins
Minerva's schoolday memories book from "Normal School", with autographs and notes from her classmates.
Newspaper clippings pertaining to Minerva's sister Cecie Roberta Jenkins, one with photo
Minerva's day book diary, includes quotes from poetry and literature
Photos of Minerva's parents Joseph Henry Jenkins and Jeannette Jenkins Jones, 5"x7" black and white
Photos of Minerva's children Thomas Jones Jr., Jeannette Jones and son-in-law Fred Wallace Sr., photos of her grandchildren Jordan, Nette and Charlotte Lapsansky, and Fred Wallace Jr.
Family photo album, people pictured include Jeannette Davis and her children Laura and Thomas Davis, Joseph Henry Jenkins, Claude Tellis, Vivian Jenkins Tellis, Minerva Elizabeth Jenkins Jones, Thomas Edward Jones Sr., Jerome (last name not specified), Emma and Phil Lapsansky and their children Jordan and Jeannette Lapsansky, Joey and Margaret (last names not specified), Lillian Jenkins, Fred Wallace and Aunt Lee. Events include holidays, birthdays, Emma Lapsansky's PhD graduation, and Vivian Jenkins Tellis' wedding. Photos of groups of children from 1938, names unspecified.
A transcript from Howard University for Minerva's degree in education, paperwork from the Public School District of Columbia that Minerva was employed by, Minerva's last will and testament
Minvera Elizabeth Jenkins and Thomas Edward Jones Sr.'s wedding book with signatures from guests and bridal party
Minerva's cookbook with recipe clippings and a card to her husband T.E. Jones Sr.
Letters and cards from grandchildren, children and friends, printed photos of grandchildren Jordan, Nette, and Charlotte Lapsansky, birth announcement, an article on Dr. T. Edward Jones, a piece of stationary from Dr. T. Edward Jones, a 4"x6" black and white photo of T.E. Jones Sr.
4"x6" black and white photo of Minerva's son Thomas Edward Jones Jr. age 13 (?), T.E. Jones Jr.'s report card from Dunbar High School, and Banneker Junior High School class of 1954 graduation program with Thomas E. Jones name underlined
Thomas E. Jones Jr.'s diploma from Howard University (Minvera's son, Emma's brother)
a photo album of Jordan Lapsansky's baby photos kept by his grandmother Minvera
Letters to Minerva from her grandchildren Jordan and Charlotte Lapsansky, her daughters Emma Jones Lapsansky and Jeannette Jones, and her sister Vivian Jekins Tellis.
Photo albums of Minerva's grandchildren Jordan and Nette Lapsansky, Fred Wallace and other unidentified grandchildren
Family photos of Jeannette Lapsasnsky, Jordan Lapsansky, Emma Lapsansky, Minevera Jenkins Jones, Charlotte Lapsansky, Minvera's home at 5626 13th st. NW Washington DC, other unidentified family members and classes of school children
A commemorative plaque presented to Minerva Jones for outstanding and dedicated service as past president of Capitol Hill Chapter No. 2881 A.A.R.P. 1983-1984, presented on December 12, 1995.
Spring 1997 newsletter "The Bridge" from Stapeley in Germantown, a Quaker-sponsored retirement community. Photo of Minerva Jenkins Jones with Quaker reverend and other members of Stapeley retirement community.
VHS tape
Correspondence regarding locating Thomas E. Jones Jr. after an accident, letters from Thomas E. Jones Jr. sent to Emma, an image of his headstone
3"x4" colorized photograph of Minerva's son Thomas Jones Jr. in Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps uniform
BW military photographs of T. E. Jones Sr., varying sizes
Dr. T. E. Jones Sr.'s presecription notepad and a copy of The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
A pair of forceps owned by Dr. T.E. Jones Sr. used in his medical practice
Obituary, cemetery and funeral home records and correspondence concerning William Bereley's funeral addressed to his wife Amaza Berkeley (T.E. Jones Sr.'s sister), Amaza Berkely's funeral records
Correspondence, legal documents and checks pertaining to the house owned by Mabel Diggs at 1749 You Street that T. E. Jones Sr. helped pay the mortgage on
Field correspondence from T.E. Jones during his time in the 3rd Battalion of the 368th Infantry Infirmary and correspondece from The Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, appointing T.E. Jones Sr. to Surgeon-In-Chief at Freedmen's Hosptial (Emma's father)
Newspaper clippings reporting on a controversy surrounding Freedman's Hosptial that T.E. Jones was Surgeon-In-Chief of (Emma's father)
The family bible of the Parker family, starting with Eben and Patience Parker (Emma's great grandparents), passed down to Jeannette Parker Jenkins and Joseph Jenkins Sr. (Emma's grandparents). Contains records of births, marriages, and deaths of the Parker family
A certificate from the Methodist Episcopal Church, program and directory from the seventy-first Methodist Episcopal Washington Annual Conference, an accounting book for Princess Anne College Summer School of Ministerial Training, a diploma from the Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a letter from Joseph Henry Jenkins Sr. to the Board of Christian Education, a graduation announcement card for Joseph Henry Jenkins Sr. from Hamilton College, a letter to J. H. Jenkins Sr. from William McDowell, 4"x6" BW photograph of Joseph H. Jenkins Sr., a program for a birthday reception for Reverend Joseph Jenkins Sr. at the Asbury Methodist Church (Emma's maternal grandfather)
Yearbooks of the Woman's Study Club of Clarksburg West Viriginia, includes lists of topics and presenters
Manuscript letter from Jeannette to Joseph Jenkins (Emma's grandparents)
A movie poster for "Hell Bound Excursion Train" a religious motion picture, directed by James E. Gist Jr., a Black man, with 50 Black characters.
Pamphlets, questionnaire, pin, and schedules for the Washington Conference for the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. Jeannette served as dean. (Emma's grandmother)
A reprint of "Registrations of Free Negroes Commencing September Court 1822, Book No. 2" and "Register of Free Blacks 1835 Book 3" : being the full text of the two extrant volumes 1822-1861 of registrations of free Blacks now in the County Courthouse, Fairfax Virginia
Joseph Jenkins Jr.'s elementary school report cards, Dunbar High School athletic association card, invitation to Dunbar High School's senior class reception, a certificate from the State of Georgia Department of Education for Joseph Jenkins Jr. to teach elemetary and high school (Emma's uncle)
A scrapbook of newspaper clippings, report cards, programs, invitations, medical reports, correspondence with colleges, and financial records of Joseph Jenkins' Jr. from his time at Dunbar High School until after college
Lillian Washington Jenkins' memory book from Dunbar High School, class of 1924. Includes photos of Lillian and friends, invitations to social events, personal notes, autographs from friends, list of Lillian's prizes and honors through high school, drawings and notes in the back of the book.
Christmas cards from family friends, photo of the Virginia Board of Visiting Scholars including J. Jenkins Jr., candid photos of Joseph and Lillian Jenkins, Joseph's sister Cecie Jones and her Husband Harold, and friends Eugene and Helen Pickett, Jack Bond Sr., and other unidentified people
Organizational photos that Joseph Jenkins was apart of including the Adult Education Institute at Fisk University, Virginia State University, and the First Unitarian Church. Also includes photos of the Jenkins' home on Halifax St. Petersburg, VA. and a photo of Lillian Washington Jenkins' god child
Receipts for checks Lillian wrote for utilities, services, organizations and goods (Emma Lapsansky's aunt)
Pamphlets for the summer program in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, pamphlets for various courses and activities at the University of Minnesota, an outline for a class on American life at the University of Minnesota, course outline for government and economic order, correspondence from the Verterans Administration and Viriginia State College regarding grants for J.H. Jenkins' education at the University of Minnesota. (Emma's uncle)
Receipts for checks Lillian wrote for utilities, services, organizations and goods (Emma Lapsansky's aunt)
Birth certificate, death certificate and honorable discharge report for Joseph Jenkins Jr. (Emma Lapsansky's uncle)
Correspondence sent and received by Joseph Jenkins Jr., including a letter from Emma Jones Lapsansky when she was in High Mowing High School (Emma's uncle)
Lillian Lee Washington Jordan and Joseph Henry Jenkins Jr. marriage announcement, August 31st 1957, The First Unitarian Church, Richmond Virginia (Emma's aunt and uncle)
J.H. Jenkins' notebook with to do lists for home renovation and improvement (Emma's uncle)
Newsletter, pamphlet and Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation Directory (Emma Lapsansky's aunt)
Correspondence, pamphlets and a booklet for Dunbar High School's class of 1924 reunion, organized by Joseph Jenkins Jr. who was valedictorian of his class (Emma Lapsansky's uncle)
Articles titled "'Together' Shoots Down Myths" and "Strong, Weak Points of a History Text" written by Joseph Jenkins Jr. published in Afro-American newspaper
A plaque awarded to Joseph Jenkins Jr. in recognition of distinguished service as chairman of the English department at Viriginia State College
8"x10" BW photograph of Joseph Jenkins Jr., 8"x10" BW photograph of the Joseph Jenkins Roberts memorial marker with the participating corporation members including Joseph Jenkins Jr. , 10"x8" BW photograph of Joseph Jenkins Jr. with student fellowship winners at the University of Virginia
Letter, booklets and newspaper clipping related to the Joseph Jenkins Roberts memorial fund that Joseph Jenkins Jr. helped create (note: Joseph Jenkins Roberts is not related to Joseph Jenkins Jr., Joseph Jenkins Roberts was the first president of Liberia and Joseph Jenkins Jr. wanted to help commemorate him by creating a memorial fund in his honor)
A plaque awarded to Joseph Jenkins Jr. from the Delta Omega Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity for citizien of the year
Correspondece, newsletters, and checking account book for VOKAL (Virginia Organization to Keep Abortion Legal) that Lillian was involved with organizing (Emma Lapsansky's aunt)
Correspondence sent to Lillian Washington Jenkins including sympathy cards on the occasion of Joseph Jenkins Jr.'s death
Memorial books from Joseph Jenkins Jr.'s funeral service, includes signatures of relatives and friends present, biographical notes, notes on organizations he was involved with, and family and marriage information. (Emma Lapsansky's uncle)
Newspaper clippings of obituaries for Joseph Jenkins Jr., newsletter announcements of his death and funeral service, letters of condolence from Virginia State University and Hamilton college, record book of funeral favors, programs from his memorial service (Emma Lapsansky's uncle)
Newspaper clippings for Joseph Jenkins memorial at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, program from memorial, Joseph's booklets and pamphlets on Unitarian Universalism (Emma Lapsansky's uncle)
Sketches by Don Miller of Black leaders Frederick Douglas, W.E.B. Dubois, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. owned by Joseph Jenkins Jr.
5"x8" BW photograph of Joseph Jenkins Jr. and the negative it was printed from (Emma Lapsansky's uncle)
Photos of Cecie Parker Henry, William Henry, and family Georgianna Henry, Ethel Waters Henry, Daisy Henry, Eben Walter Parker, Wesley J. Parker, Bernice Parker, Kennedy Parker, Everett Parker, Jeannette Parker, Susan Parker, Theolphilis Parker, Vivian Jenkins, Cecie Jenkins, Joseph Jenkins, Minerva Jenkins Jones, T.E. Jones Sr., T.E. Jones Jr., Jeannette Jones, Emma Jones, Frances Waters, Katherine Pipes, Carole Anne Taylor. Photos of friends include Lillian Sockum, Blanche Stubbs, Emmett Scott, John Drummond (Middletown, DE), Leon Henry, Josiah (attorney), Lewis (last name not specified) and other unidentified people
7.5"x6" BW photograph of William Henry's graduating class from Delaware State College (Emma's great uncle)
Unclear if this is Cecie or William's chemistry notebook
A certificate from The State of Delaware to William Henry for his membership on the Board of Trustees for the State College for Colored Students (Emma's great uncle)
William Henry's notebook from a pathology class taught by Dr. Collins Marshall
William Henry's notebook from his first year of practice as a physician, includes client names, medical complaints and prescriptions
A notebook from a chemistry class Cecie Parker Henry took in her studies at Temple University School of Pharmacy
Cecie Parker's histology class notebook from when she was attending Temple University School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia
Cecie Parker's notebook from when she was attending Temple University School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia
Letters from the Delaware State Hospital, an employee identification card with photo for the NY State Department of Correction, a photo (7"x9") BW of Theophilus Parker, obituary, papers written by Theolphilus Parker about Black history and trends in public education, newspaper clippings of articles Theophilus wrote on Black history, a newspaper article on a class reunion with photo of Theophilus, letters to and from Theophilus (Emma's great uncle)
Letters to Cecie from her neices, husband, Emma Lapsansky, and various boards of education that she was involved with. Also includes programs, and a certificate of merit from the Maryland Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations (Emma's great great aunt)
Minutes from the 10th annual session of the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers that William Henry was on the Delaware board of trustees for
A receipt from a pharmaceutical company, a special tax stamp for dispensing opium and coca leaves, a receipt for dues paid to the Maryland Medical Association, monthly newsletters from the National Medical Association
Sympathy letters, cards and telegrams to Cecie Parker Henry on the event of her husband William Henry's death from friends, family, and organizations that he was apart of. Newspaper article on his funeral. Newspaper article on Henry High School DE named after William Henry (Emma's great uncle)
Cecie Parker Henry's checkbook detailing her expenses paid for goods and services and to organizations (Emma's great aunt)
A newspaper article about Cecie Parker Henry being elected to the Dover Board of Education, a newspaper article about Cecie Parker Henry speaking at the Arkansas Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers
Correspondence sent to Cecie Parker Henry when she was in a leadership position at the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Marjorie Waters (Addie Water's daughter) created a mailing list for the Hughes/Parker family progeny. This letter was addressed to Minerva Jenkins Jones and found among Cecie Parker Henry's papers
Notes prepared by the Whatcoat United Methodist Church in memorial of Cecie Parker Henry that were read at her funeral, newspaper obituaries, program from her funeral service (Emma's great aunt)
Cecie Parker Henry's notebook from a French class she took with Gladis Berri
(Emma's aunt)
Printed out power point presentation Claude Tellis Sr. gave as part of the National Medical Association on flooding and health services delivery in regards to the effects of Hurricane Katrina
Biography on Claude Tellis Sr., curriculum vitae, scanned photos of his degrees and professional work as a doctor
An article written about the podcast "The Bottom Line" that Claude Tellis and Kareem Cook were interviewed on about the "African-American diabetes epidemic"
An essay on ZOAR the first Black Methodist congregation by Enoch P. Waters (Emma's first cousin)
A book written by Enoch P. Waters, Emma's first cousin once removed
7.5"x 9" BW photograph of Enoch P. Waters and his wife Regina Waters (Enoch was Emma's first cousin)
Photos of Emma Lapsansky, Phil Lapsansky, Jordan Lapsansky, Jeannette Lapsansky, Charlotte Lapsansky, Dickinson Werner, Minerva Jenkins Jones, Thomas Edward Jones Jr., Jeannette Jenkins Wallace, Laura Davis, Fred Wallace, and other family friends
Photos of Minerva Jenkins Jones, Edward Thomas Jones Sr., Edward Thomas Jones Jr., Emma Jones Lapsansky, Jeannette Jones, Claude Tellis, Joseph Jenkins Jr., Cecie Parker Henry, and other unidentified family friends
8"x 11" BW photograph of Minvera Jenkins Jones' children, T.E. Jones Jr., Jeannette Jones, and Emma Jones
9"x 7.5" BW photograph of the National Congress of the Colored Parents and Teachers in Lousville Kentucky, Cecie Parker Henry middle second row
19"x9" BW photograph of Freedmen's Hospital Interne Association members including T.E. Jones Sr., front row, center
7.5"x 9" BW photograph
7.5"X 9" BW photograph
10"x 13" BW photographic print of T.E. Jones Sr. in military uniform
18.5"x 10.5" BW photograph
15.5"x 6" BW photograph
BW rolled photos of Joseph Jenkins Jr.'s graduating class photos from Dunbar High School and Hamilton College
Graduating class photo from a Black women's college, photo unnamed
Certificate from the Army of the United States of America to certify that Thomas Edward Jones Sr., Captain M.C. of the 368th Infantry was honorably discharged, T. E. Jones Sr.'s certificate for medical and surgery practice, distinguised service cross certificate, Freedmen's Hospital interne certificate, Freedmen's Hospital Director in Chief certificate, First Lieutenant in the First Separate Battalion of Infantry certificate (Emma's father)
Thomas Edward Jones Sr.'s distingushed service cross certificate for his bravery in the September, 1917 Argonne Forest initiative
Key to the city certificate presented to Cecie Parker Henry on her 100th birthday from the city of Smyrna, DE
Lincoln memorial cemetery certificates, William Berkeley's certificates of Baptist ordination
Joseph Henry Jenkins Jr.'s diplomas from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School and Hamilton College
Minerva Jenkins' diplomas from Douglass High School, Baltimore MD and Miner Normal School Washington DC
Honorable mention certificate from leadership training department, diploma from Howard University, diploma from Dunbar High School
T.E. Jones Sr.'s doctoral diploma from Howard University