Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Ash-Schofield Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-004
Overview
Samuel Shinn Ash and his wife, Sarah Jane Schofield Ash, were prominent Quakers, active in a variety of philanthropic activities, including anti-slavery, peace, temperance, women's rights, and education. Samuel Shinn Ash was apprenticed as an engineer and machinist and worked in manufacturing. This collection consists of family papers, manuscript letters and memorabilia, largely of a domestic nature. Includes some descriptions of Meetings and religious journeys, of the early struggles of...
Dates:
1796 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1833 - 1912
Branson-Jackson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-016
Overview
Anna M. Jackson and her daughter, Anna M. (Jackson Branson) Theiss, were Quaker activists in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Anna M. Jackson was very involved in reform activities in New York City. She served as Chairman of the Women's Prison Reform Committee, and was also involved in the Women's Municipal League and the Political Study Club. Her daughter, Anna Morris Jackson ("Pansy"), attended Swarthmore College for two years, and in 1909 earned a B.S. in Education from Columbia...
Dates:
1794-1962
Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-060
Overview
The Schofield Normal and Industrial School was founded in 1868 by Martha Schofield (1839-1916), a Pennsylvania Quaker. Her intention initially was to provide education for formerly enslaved people. The School gradually evolved into a boarding school for training young Black people in industrial trades or to become teachers. It was absorbed into the public school system in 1952. The collection contains minutes of the board of trustees (1886-1942), legal documents, financial records,...
Dates:
1870-1957
Filtered By
- Subject: Quaker women X
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- Education -- South Carolina -- Aiken 2
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Aiken 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Vocational education -- South Carolina 1
- Aiken (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century 1
- Boarding schools -- South Carolina 1
- Charities -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Freed persons -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
- Prison reformers 1
- Quaker businesspeople 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quaker women -- Diaries 1
- Quaker women -- Education 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Quakers -- South Carolina 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- South Carolina 1
- Schools -- South Carolina -- Aiken 1
- Social reformers 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Student Activities -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
- Teachers colleges -- South Carolina 1
- Trade schools -- South Carolina 1
- Universities and colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
- Vocational education -- South Carolina 1
- Women and peace 1
- Women social workers -- South Carolina 1 + ∧ less
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