Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) founded and served as principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, from 1881 until his death in 1915.
The collection includes one response letter from Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama to Miss E.M. Tappan (presumably Eva March Tappan) in Worcester, Massachusetts on December 5, 1905. Washington apologizes for his late response and writes that he would be glad to receive the Christmas cards Tappan mentioned in a previous letter.
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Booker T. Washington letter to Miss E.M. Tappan, MSS-0104, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
The collection is arranged in the order in which it arrived in the Rhode Island College Special Collections.
Provenance of the collection is unknown. It was in the holdings of Special Collections prior to 2023.
The collection was described by Special Collections intern, Melissa Moniz, in 2023 under the supervision of Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Veronica L. Denison.
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