Autographs -- Collections

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

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This collection contains various signatures.

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Autographed letters and photographs, mostly literary, collected over two generations.

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Autograph/signature album signed by guests at the 1966 exhibit held at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia in honor of Margaret Gest.

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This collection contains four scrapbooks compiled by Charles Roberts, one from 1859 and others which are undated.

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The collection consists of a book called "Autographs" of Allen C. Thomas, which serves as an album of autographs he presumably collected during his early life, and two letterbooks pertaining to Thomas's time at Haverford College as a professor and librarian.

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Primarily the personal papers of William Pyle Philips (1882-1950), as well as a collection of 12 letters of United States presidents.