Box 8

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Sallie Phelps was Katherine Caperton's mother. The following folder contains letters that address private and public matters that relate to Mrs. Sallie Phelps

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Thomas Phelps was Katherine Caperton's father. The following folder contains letters that address private and public matters that relate to Mr. Phelps.

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Personal correspondence to Albert Lacy Russel, Minerva Phelps-Russel's only child from her first marriage. All the letters are from his Mother or Aunt Katherine Caperton

Scope and Contents Contains correspondence from the Historic American Buildings Survey, which was sponsored by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Civil Works Administration during the Great Depression. All the letters relate to those Depression Era efforts that were aimed at documenting historic buildings, putting drafters back to work, and, perhaps most important, ensuring that America's historic buildings "should not pass into unrecorded oblivion." The correspondence addresses Mrs. Caperton as...

Scope and Contents Correspondence to Minerva Phelps-Russell-Jennings that is arranged chronologically. Minerva married John Hooe Russell shortly after his first wife, Nettie, died on 26 Nov 1895. Minerva and Netties were cousins and Minerva was at the deathbed of both her cousin Nettie and John Hooe Russell Jr. She married Russell on 8 May 1901 and he later died within a year of the arrival of their first son, Albert Lacy Russell. After a mourning period Minerva then married Frank Jennings, a Floridian...

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Chronologically arranged Correspondence to Minerva Phelps-Russell-Jennings.