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Pearce Family Papers, 1880-1962
Finding Aid
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
© 2005
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Creator:
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Pearce family |
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Title:
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Pearce Family Papers |
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Dates:
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1880-1962 |
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Abstract:
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The papers represent the extended Pearce/Brown family involved in education in rural United States and missionary and education work at the Sidon Female Seminary in Syria and elswhere in the Middle East, circa 1880s-1930s. Also represented are Eleanor I. Burns, founder of the American College for Girls in Istanbul; Mary Mills Patrick, founder of Constantinople Women's College; and Alice Lloyd, founder of Caney Junior College in Kentucky.
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Extent:
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3 boxes(1 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English |
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Identification:
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MS 119 |
Primary family members represented in papers include Charlotte Hays Brown (1862- 1951), who served in Syria under the auspices of the Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church from 1885-1931. For much of that time she was principal of the Sidon Female Seminary. She later lived in Lebanon. Her sister, Rebecca McClure (Brown) Pearce (1860-1911) was also a missionary in Syria from 1885-92. Rebecca's daughter, Katherine Standish Pearce (1895- 1990) graduated Smith College, 1915; taught languages and was librarian at Constantinople Women's College, Turkey, 1925-31, and was cataloger at the Princeton University Library, 1931-61. Katherine's sister, Charlotte Crosby Pearce (1894-1919), also graduated Smith College 1915.
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The Pearce Family Papers represent the extended Pearce/Brown family involved in education in under served areas in the rural United States and missionary and education work in the Middle East, circa 1880s-1930s. Also represented are Eleanor I. Burns, founder of the American College for Girls in Istanbul; Mary Mills Patrick, founder of Constantinople Women's College; and Alice Lloyd, founder of Caney Junior College in Kentucky. The collection includes biographical and genealogical information; correspondence (1892-1962); photographs; scrapbook; travel diary from European trip (1953); and writings (1911-53). Pamphlets and reports relating to the Sidon Female Seminary are of particular interest.
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Biography and memorabilia
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Brown Family tree
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Clippings, articles, miscellaneous biographical material,
1936-52
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Arthur J. Brown: clippings,
1951-62
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Eleanor I. Burns: clippings and articles,
1950-52
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Alice Lloyd: clippings and articles,
1961-62, n.d.
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Mary Mills Patrick: clippings and articles,
1927-64
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Charlotte Crosby Pearce: obituary,
1919
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Katharine Standish Pearce
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Teaching contracts,
1919
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Constantinople Women's College: library lists,
1927-30
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"Green Pyne Leaf" (Princeton University Library staff publication,)
1951-61
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Small book given to her on her birthday,
1874
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Sidon Seminary, Syria: reports, notes and printed material,
1880-92
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Miscellaneous memorabilia,
1888-1929, n.d.
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Writings: Katharine Standish Pearce
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Trip to Europe,
1953
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From Katharine Standish Pearce
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Margaret Storrs Grierson,
1950-66
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To Katharine Standish Pearce
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Eleanor Lyons Brown,
1929
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Frederick W. Brown,
1921, 1953
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Elsa Kimball,
1955-62, n.d.
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Mary Mills Patrick,
1921-28, 1955
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Charlotte C. Pearce,
1919
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Miscellaneous,
1924-52, n.d.
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Business letters,
1920
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From Charlotte Hays Brown
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"My Dear People" (from Syria),
1929-34
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Frederick T. Brown to Rebecca Brown Pearce and Mary L. Brown,
1873-88
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Frederick Leiper, letters to him,
1911-13
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Edgar Pearce to Cohen Pearce,
1882
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Irving Pearce to Cohen Pearce,
1882
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To Rebecca Brown Pearce,
1884-98
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Lois Wilson to Mary Brown Leiper,
1951
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Letters to Miss Adams,
1950-53
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Miscellaneous,
1904, 1951, n.d.
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Rebecca Brown Pearce,
1888, 1955, n.d.
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Charlotte Hays Brown,
1885-1955
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Mary Mills Patrick,
1940-43, n.d.
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Lebanon, Syria, and Europe,
1910, 1923-26, n.d.
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Miscellaneous, mostly groups,
1895-34, n.d.
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Sidon Seminary, Syria,
1887-1931, n.d.
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Sketches by Charlotte H. Brown
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Scrapbook of Mary Brown Leiper,
circa 1930s
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