Shaw University, 1913, 1924, 1937, and undated

File — Box: 4, Folder: 2

Collection Overview

From the Collection:

The collection includes correspondence, certificates, photographs, and other materials related to Miriam DeCosta Seabrook's education at Avery Institute and elsewhere, teaching career, and civic involvement; correspondence, speeches, and reports related to Dr. Herbert Seabrook, Sr.'s community and fraternal affiliations and to his medical career as a private practitioner and director of the Hospital and Training School for Nurses; and correspondence, memorabilia, and financial documents related to the marriage of Miriam and Herbert Seabrook. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other materials related to their son, Dr. Herbert Seabrook, Jr., his son, Kenneth Seabrook, Seabrook, Sr.'s mother, Amerintha Alston Seabrook, and other Seabrook family members are represented. The collection also contains scrapbooks and photographs of Miriam DeCosta Seabrook's relatives, the DeCosta family of Charleston, South Carolina.

Dates

Creation: 1913, 1924, 1937, and undated

Creator

From the Collection: Seabrook, Herbert U., Sr., 1884-1941 (Person)
From the Collection: Seabrook, Miriam DeCosta, 1896-1992 (Person)

Full Extent

From the Collection: 6.0 linear feet (10 archival boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 banker box )

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Materials Specific Details

Contains letters to Herbert Seabrook regarding being "chief Usher for Commencement Week, May 11-15, 1913," receipt of contribution to Shaw University Alumni Association, and 8x9 1/2 sepia photograph of "Shaw University and University of West Tennessee Alumi Class of 1914-1915, reunion at St. Louis National Medicine Association, August 1937.