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Identifier:
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exwaVMTC_04_Scrapbook_bk
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Title:
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Merze Tate Scrapbook 4
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Title:
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Merze Tate's Scrapbook of Sympathy Cards
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Date:
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approximately 1949
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Creator:
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Tate, Merze, 1905-1996
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Description:
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A tan scrapbook with a flower and "Snapshots" on the cover. The scrapbook contains get-well cards and a post-operative award certificate. Only the certificate is dated: July 27, 1949. The get-well cards refer to Merze Tate's stay in a hospital for an operation at an unknown date. An envelope accompanying one of the cards is addressed to Geo. Washington Hospital. Cards are from family, sorority sisters, faculty women's clubs, colleagues at Howard University and friends. Signatures identified from the cards include: Mary and Aaron; Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Barron; Alma Hooks; Annie Ruth Turne; Aurelia and John Hojce?; Muriel M. Alexander; Edna W. Payton; Alice Peters Moore; Anna Rhodes; Antoinette and Kathleen Davis; Ruth E. Moore; Marie B. Madison; West A. Hamilton; Vivian Booth; Adalaide; Myrtle Tate; Ethel Popel Show and "the Writers"; Bea; Soror Naomi C. Bryant; John and Velma; Faculty Women's Club; Myrtle and Leo; Ella Albert Brown; the Bridge Builders; Thomton?; Major and Mrs. Lucius E. Young; Thelma and Jesse; Lula [unreadable last name]; Flossie Paige; Elvena Bage?; Beta Chapter of the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa; the Petites; Bernie and Joe Reason; "Jen", "Fau" and "Por"; Elizabeth, Percy and Billy; Carlotta P. Lingo; Harvey; and Ethel.
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Publisher:
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Western Michigan University
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Subject:
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Scrapbooks
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Subject:
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Tate, Merze, 1905-1996--Correspondence
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Subject:
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get well cards
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Subject:
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sympathy cards
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Keywords:
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Cards; Stationery; Awards; humor; recovery (health-related concept)
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Time Period:
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Nineteen forties
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Source:
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Vernie Merze Tate Collection. Scrapbook #4 (Box 10). Western Michigan University Archives
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Language:
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eng
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Rights Status:
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In Copyright
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Access Rights:
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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.
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Collection:
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Merze Tate Collection
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Date Digital:
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2024
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