COLLECTION NAME:
Merze Tate Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwaVMTC_10b_Scrapbook_bk
Title:
Vernie Merze Tate Scrapbook 3
Title:
Merze Tate's Scrapbook of letters and ephemera from the Simm family
Date:
1942-1950
Creator:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996
Description:
An ivory-colored scrapbook containing handwritten letters from the Simm family to Merze Tate written between September 1942 to May 1950. Most letters were written by Ida Vandaliah (Larkin) Simms, an Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority member with Merze Tate, concerning Ida's daughter Jacquelyn (born September 9, 1942). Some leaves include birth announcements and invitations to Jacquelyn's christening, black-and-white photographs of Tate with baby Jacquelyn, her mother and her father. Some letters are written on Silver Meteor Seaboard Railway stationary. Later leaves feature letters from Jacquelyn to "Mama" Merze Tate. Merze Tate was Jacquelyn Simms' godmother. Other ephemera includes newspaper clippings of Jacquelyn's brother William's birth, thank you cards, holiday cards, and get well cards.
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Subject:
Scrapbooks
Subject:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996--Correspondence
Subject:
Simms family
Subject:
African Americans--Children
Keywords:
black & white photographs; Group portraits; Clippings; Infants; Baptisms; Children; Cards; Postcards
Person Identified:
Simms, Jacquelyn Vandaliah, 1942-
Person Identified:
Simms, Ida Vandaliah, -1950
Person Identified:
Simms, William Everette, 1882?-
Person Identified:
Larkin, Ted
Person Identified:
Simms, William Everette, 1943-
Time Period:
Nineteen forties
Time Period:
Nineteen fifties
Source:
Vernie Merze Tate Collection. Scrapbook #3 (Box 10). Western Michigan University Archives
Language:
eng
Rights Status:
In Copyright
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University Library and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by the Western Michigan University Archives and Regional History Collections, Zhang Legacy Collections Center.
Collection:
Merze Tate Collection
Date Digital:
2024