Box 3

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Includes copies of "Papers Read before the Lancaster County Historical Society" dated to 1950. Also includes handwritten account of Gildersleeve/Atherton history (date unknown).

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This is the frist file in the MAU autograph collection and includes signed name cards and letterhead.

Scope and Contents The second folder in the MAU autograph collection includes letters, some of which appear to be professional correspondence between Thomas Henry Atherton (Updegraff's father) and instutitions including the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and the Bible Institute for Home and Foreign Missions, of the Chicago Evangelization Society. Names incldued are: John Gibson Paton (1824 – 1907); Cyrus Long Pershing (1825-1903); Francis L. Patton (1843-1932); James McCosh (1811-1894); Julian...

Scope and Contents Part 2 of the correspondence included in the MAU autograph collection. Many of the letters are addressed to Thomas Henry Atherton, some are addressed to Louise Atherton Dickey (Updegraff's oldest sister, BMC class of 1903) or Updegraff's uncle, Dr. Charles Parke. Included names are: George Kennan (writing a letter to Benjamin E. Smith, 1889); Arthur T. Hadley (1856-1930); George de Forest Brush (1855-1941); Lillian Blauvelt (1873–1947); Luigi Vannuccini (1828-1911); Francis L. Patton...

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Includes brief printed bios for some of the people in the autograph collection (printed from Wikipedia and similar sites).

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The drawings by Peter S. Newell are largely composed of racist caricatures of African Americans. Drawn during the late 19th or early 20th century, there is little explanation as to why these drawings exist in this collection, other than how they have been lumped together with Updegraff's autograph collection.