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Elizabeth Mossell Anderson Papers

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Call Number:
UPT 50 A374E
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Extent:
8 cubic feet
Language:
English
Date:
1905-1975 (inclusive)
Abstract:
Elizabeth Mossell Anderson was Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander's elder sister. The Elizabeth Anderson Papers document aspects of her personal and professional life.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander's elder sister, Elizabeth Mossell Anderson (B.S. in Ed., 1939) (called variously "Beth," "Babs," or "Babo" in correspondence) served as Dean of Women at Virginia State College and later at Wilberforce University (Central State College), Ohio. Upon her retirement in 1964, she came to live with the Alexanders in Philadelphia and resided with them until her death in 1975.

Personal Correspondence: with family, mostly STMA (approx. 2/3 cu. ft.; 1938-51); general and unsorted (approx. 1 cu. ft.; 1930-1971). Financial Records (1933-74): bank records (approx. 1.5 cu. ft.); other financial records (approx. 2 cu. ft.). Papers relating to Central State College, Wilberforce University, Ohio (1 cu. ft., scattered; 1938-68). The record group also contains a small series of photographs.

The Elizabeth Mossell Anderson Papers is organized into fifteen series: I. Biographical and Autobiographical; II. Personal Correspondence; III. General Correspondence; IV. Professional Correspondence; V. Financial Records; VI. Professional Business; VII. Professional Papers; VIII. Professional Organizations; IX. Civic Organizations; X. Clubs and Social Groups; XI. Writings, Publications and Speeches; XII. Diplomas, Citations, and Awards; XIII. Memorabilia; XIV. Audio-Visual Material; and XV. Books. Many of the series are further organized into sub-series.

Gift of the Alexander family, 1987.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Finding Aid Author
Thomas G. Potterfield, Maureen B. Spectre, and Theresa R. Snyder, assisted by Susan M. Jenkins
Finding Aid Date
UPT 50 A374E
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Resume and related papers, n.d.
Box A1 Folder 1
Telephone book (personal), n.d.
Box 1 Folder 2
Personal travel notes, n.d.
Box 1 Folder 3
Scrapbook, 1934-1946.
Box OS
Address book, [194-].
Box 1 Folder 4
Programs and clippings, 1940-1956.
Box 1 Folder 4a
Travel receipts, 1965-1966.
Box 1 Folder 5

1938.
Box 1 Folder 6
1938.
Box 1 Folder 7
1939.
Box 1 Folder 8
1940.
Box 1 Folder 9
1940.
Box 1 Folder 10
1941 January-.
Box 1 Folder 11
1941 March-.
Box 1 Folder 12
1942 January-.
Box 1 Folder 13
1942 August.
Box 1 Folder 14
1943.
Box 1 Folder 15
1944 January.
Box 1 Folder 16
1944 fall.
Box 1 Folder 17
1945.
Box 1 Folder 18
1946.
Box 1 Folder 19
1947.
Box 1 Folder 20
1948 Spring.
Box 1 Folder 21
1948 fall.
Box 1 Folder 22
1948-1949 winter.
Box 1 Folder 23
1949 spring.
Box 1 Folder 24
1949 summer.
Box 1 Folder 25
1949 fall.
Box 1 Folder 26
1949-1950 winter.
Box 1 Folder 27
1950 spring.
Box 1 Folder 28
1950 spring.
Box 1 Folder 29
1950 fall.
Box 1 Folder 30
1950-1951 winter.
Box 1 Folder 31
1951 spring.
Box 1 Folder 32
1951 summer.
Box 1 Folder 33
Misc. dates.
Box 1 Folder 34
1930.
Box 1 Folder 35
1936-1937.
Box 1 Folder 36
1939.
Box 1 Folder 37
1948-1950.
Box 1 Folder 38
1950.
Box 1 Folder 39
1951-1955.
Box 1 Folder 40
1957-1960.
Box 1 Folder 41
1961.
Box 1 Folder 42
1961.
Box 1 Folder 43
1961.
Box 1 Folder 44
1962.
Box 2 Folder 1
1962.
Box 2 Folder 2
1962.
Box 2 Folder 3
1963.
Box 2 Folder 4
1964.
Box 2 Folder 5
1964.
Box 2 Folder 6
1964.
Box 2 Folder 7
1965.
Box 2 Folder 8
1965.
Box 2 Folder 9
1965.
Box 2 Folder 10
1966.
Box 2 Folder 11
1967-1968.
Box 2 Folder 12
Letter from Cassie [Aaron Mossell's widow], 1969.
Box 2 Folder 13
1969-1974.
Box 2 Folder 14
n.d.
Box 2 Folder 15
n.d.
Box 2 Folder 16
n.d.
Box 2 Folder 17
n.d.
Box 2 Folder 18
n.d.
Box 2 Folder 19
n.d.
Box 3 Folder 1
n.d.
Box 3 Folder 2
n.d.
Box 3 Folder 3
n.d.
Box 3 Folder 4
1964.
Box 3 Folder 5
1964.
Box 3 Folder 6

Including personal letters and correspondence of STMA on behalf of EMA (incl. re insurance claim), 1971-1975.
Box 3 Folder 7

Central State College, 1947-1952.
Box 3 Folder 8
Central State College, 1958-1959.
Box 3 Folder 9
Central State College, 1967-1968.
Box 3 Folder 10

Bank books, 1933-1934.
Box 3 Folder 11
Bank books, 1935.
Box 3 Folder 12
Bank books, 1936.
Box 3 Folder 13
Joint account with STMA, 1972-1974.
Box 3 Folder 14
Bank statements, 1934-1937.
Box 3 Folder 15
Bank statements, 1964.
Box 3 Folder 16
Bank statements, 1970-1972.
Box 3 Folder 17
Bank statements, 1973.
Box 3 Folder 18
Bonds, 1905.
Box 4 Folder 1
1932-1933.
Box 4 Folder 2
1934-1935.
Box 4 Folder 3
1942-1944.
Box 4 Folder 4
1945.
Box 4 Folder 5
1946.
Box 4 Folder 6
1947.
Box 4 Folder 7
1948.
Box 4 Folder 8
1949.
Box 4 Folder 9
1950.
Box 4 Folder 10
1951.
Box 4 Folder 11
1952.
Box 4 Folder 12
1953.
Box 4 Folder 13
1953.
Box 4 Folder 14
1954.
Box 4 Folder 15
1954.
Box 4 Folder 16
1955.
Box 4 Folder 17
1955.
Box 4 Folder 18
1956.
Box 4 Folder 19
1956.
Box 4 Folder 20
1957.
Box 4 Folder 21
1957.
Box 4 Folder 22
1958.
Box 4 Folder 23
1958.
Box 4 Folder 24
1959.
Box 4 Folder 25
1959.
Box 4 Folder 26
1960.
Box 5 Folder 1
1960.
Box 5 Folder 2
1961.
Box 5 Folder 3
1962.
Box 5 Folder 4
1963.
Box 5 Folder 5
1964.
Box 5 Folder 6
1965.
Box 5 Folder 7
1966-1967.
Box 5 Folder 8
1968.
Box 5 Folder 9
1969.
Box 5 Folder 10
1972-1974.
Box 5 Folder 10a
1974-1975.
Box 5 Folder 10b
1904-1916.
Box 5 Folder 11
1963-1964.
Box 5 Folder 12
1958, 1962.
Box 5 Folder 13
Anderson, Page, 1933.
Box 5 Folder 14
Anderson, Page, 1939.
Box 5 Folder 15
Anderson, Elizabeth M., 1974-1975.
Box 5 Folder 16
Anderson, Elizabeth M., 1976-1981.
Box 5 Folder 17
1935.
Box 5 Folder 18
1940-1949.
Box 5 Folder 19
1950-1956.
Box 5 Folder 20
1957-1959.
Box 5 Folder 21
1960-1964.
Box 5 Folder 22
1965-1967.
Box 5 Folder 23
1968.
Box 5 Folder 24
1969-1972.
Box 5 Folder 25
1972-1975.
Box 5 Folder 26
Information, 1964-1972.
Box 6 Folder 1
Information, 1973.
Box 6 Folder 2
Information, 1974.
Box 6 Folder 3
Information, 1974.
Box 6 Folder 4
Information, 1975.
Box 6 Folder 5
655 North 47th Street, 1952-1954.
Box 6 Folder 6
Mortgage, 1957.
Box 6 Folder 7
1935-1944.
Box 6 Folder 8
1949-1951.
Box 6 Folder 9
1952.
Box 6 Folder 10
1953-1954.
Box 6 Folder 11
1955.
Box 6 Folder 12
1956-1957.
Box 6 Folder 13
1958.
Box 6 Folder 14
1959-1961.
Box 6 Folder 15
1962-1963.
Box 6 Folder 16
1964-1969.
Box 6 Folder 17
1971-1974.
Box 6 Folder 18
1933-1936.
Box 6 Folder 19
1941, 1944.
Box 6 Folder 20
1944-1947.
Box 6 Folder 21
With insurance papers, 1951-1953.
Box 6 Folder 22
1954-1957.
Box 6 Folder 23
With insurance papers, 1958-1963.
Box 6 Folder 24
1964-1969.
Box 6 Folder 25
1970-1972.
Box 6 Folder 26
1973-1975.
Box 6 Folder 27

Financial papers, 1954-1955.
Box 7 Folder 1
Administrative papers (notes), 1962-1966.
Box 7 Folder 2

1938.
Box 7 Folder 3
1939.
Box 7 Folder 4
1940-1941.
Box 7 Folder 5
n.d.
Box 7 Folder 6
1953.
Box 7 Folder 7
1959.
Box 7 Folder 8
1953-1954.
Box 7 Folder 9
1955.
Box 7 Folder 10
1957.
Box 7 Folder 11
1962.
Box 7 Folder 12
1964.
Box 7 Folder 13
Commencement program and booklet commemorating President Charles H. Wesley, 1964.
Box 7 Folder 14
1965.
Box 7 Folder 15
1966.
Box 7 Folder 16
1966.
Box 7 Folder 17
1967-1968.
Box 7 Folder 18
1968.
Box 7 Folder 19

NAWDC Roster, 1966.
Box 7 Folder 20
Miscellaneous pamphlets, 1969.
Box 7 Folder 21

American Friends Service Committee, 1947; 1964.
Box 7 Folder 22

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, 1964.
Box 7 Folder 23

Mothers' Day speech at Central State: "The Value of Counseling," n.d.
Box 7 Folder 24
Paper on the support of health education in Negro Colleges, 1940.
Box 7 Folder 25
Ms. notes, 1960-1963.
Box 7 Folder 26

National School of Interior Decoration (certificate of proficiency), 1928.
Box 7 Folder 27
University of Pennsylvania (B.S.), 1939.
Box 7 Folder 28
Master of Arts degree (Columbia University), 1940.
Box OS 2
College Award of Central State College, 1964.
Box OS 3

Programs, 1940.
Box 7 Folder 29
Central State College yearbook, 1948.
Box 7 Folder 30
Article, 1950.
Box 7 Folder 31
Central State College yearbook, 1953.
Box 7 Folder 32
Workbook, 1954.
Box 7 Folder 33
Central State College yearbook, 1958.
Box 7 Folder 34
Central State College yearbook, 1960.
Box 7 Folder 35
Book of church services, 1962-1963.
Box 7 Folder 36
The Journal of College Student Personnel, 1963.
Box 7 Folder 37
Central State College yearbook, 1964.
Box 8 Folder 1
Booklet on Eugene Wayman Jones and program for Leadership Institute on International Programming, 1964.
Box 8 Folder 2
Book of church services, 1964-1965.
Box 8 Folder 3
Manpower report of the president, 1965.
Box 8 Folder 4
Miscellaneous publications, 1965.
Box 8 Folder 5
Gem magazine and program for National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, 1966.
Box 8 Folder 6
Booklet of National Association of Central State University Mothers and newspaper clippings, 1967.
Box 8 Folder 7
A.M.E. conference book, 1968.
Box 8 Folder 8
Gold Torch newspaper, 1968.
Box 8 Folder 9
Miscellaneous pamphlets, 1969.
Box 8 Folder 10

Miscellaneous, ca.1930s-1970s.
Box 8 Folder 11
Snapshots, 1959.
Box 8 Folder 12
Christian religious instructional records in African native languages (set of 19 8 .25" 78rpm discs), 1961.
Box 8 Folder 13
"Beth's birthday/This is the one for your birthday" ] (1 5" reel of 0.25" tape), 1958.
Box 8 Folder 14

Christian Worship and Praise, 1939.
Box 8 Folder 15
The Macmillan Wild Flower Book, by Clarence J. Hylander, 1954.
Box 8 Folder 16
To Secure These Rights: The Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights, 1947.
Box 8 Folder 17
The Treasury of American Prints, edited by Thomas Craven, 1939.
Box 8 Folder 18
Wild Flowers, by J. G. Barton, 1963.
Box 8 Folder 19
World Famous Paintings, edited by Rockwell Kent, 1939.
Box 8 Folder 20

Print, Suggest