Schofield, Martha
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1839 - 1916
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Martha Schofield photograph collection
Collection — Othertype PA-143
Identifier: SFHL-PA-143
Overview
Martha Schofield (1839-1916) was a Hicksite Quaker teacher from Pennsylvania who founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S. C., in 1868 to provide education for formerly enslaved people. This collection contains a number of portraits of Martha Schofield, as well as some family pictures and photographs of the Schofield school.
Dates:
1847 - 1984
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: Schools -- South Carolina -- Aiken X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Aiken 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 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
- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Education -- South Carolina -- Aiken 1
- Freed persons -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States 1
- Quaker women -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Quakers -- South Carolina 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- South Carolina 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Teachers colleges -- South Carolina 1
- Trade schools -- South Carolina 1
- Vocational education -- South Carolina 1
- Women social workers -- South Carolina 1 + ∧ less
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