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Collection Number: 03686

Collection Title: Jessie Daniel Ames Papers, 1866-1972

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Size 7.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3,600 items)
Abstract Jessie Daniel Ames was a white civil rights worker of Atlanta, Ga., Georgetown, Tex., and Tryon, N.C. Beginning in 1922, Ames served separate roles as secretary and vice-president of the Texas Committee on Interracial Cooperation. By 1929, she had moved to Atlanta, where she was director of Women's Work for the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. During this time, Ames established the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, which functioned as a volunteer component within the Commission. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, reports, clippings, autobiographies, school materials, photographs, and other papers relating to the public service and private life of Jessie Daniel Ames. Organizational papers document Ames's work as officer of the Texas Interracial Commission and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in Atlanta and as founder of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. Subjects include education, lynching, domestic servants, conferences, public opinion, and other dimensions of race relations. Correspondents include Howard Odum, Guy B. Johnson, Will W. Alexander, and George Washington Carver. Included is a 1930 color poster from the Soviet Union that uses lynching to denounce both Christianity and the United States. Family papers document Ames's efforts as a single parent to raise and educate three children. Letters show that Frederick (1907-1959) became a pediatrician with a private practice in Houston, Tex., and served as a Navy physician during World War II; Mary became a pediatrician in Harrisburg, Pa., and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; and Lulu, crippled by polio as a child, became a successful editor.
Creator Ames, Jessie Daniel, 1883-1972.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Jessie Daniel Ames Papers #3686, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Jessie Daniel Ames of Tryon, N.C., in 1964, and from Jacquelyn Dowd Hall of Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1993.
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Processed by: Lisa C. Tolbert, February 1994

Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, November 2006

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Jessie Daniel Ames, daughter of Laura Leonard and James M. Daniel, grew up in Georgetown, Tex. She married Roger Post Ames, a United States Public Health Service doctor. While Roger Ames pursued medical research on tropical diseases in South America, Jessie lived with her sister Lulu Daniel Hardy in Columbia, Tenn. In 1914, Roger Ames died of blackwater fever, leaving Jessie a single mother with two children, Frederick and Mary, and a third, Lulu, on the way. Jessie supported the children with the assistance of her mother and became increasingly involved in issues of social justice in Texas.

In the years leading up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, Ames worked for women's suffrage. From the 1920s through the 1940s she held various positions within the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Her civil rights work began in earnest in 1922, when she became vice president of the Texas Commission. In 1929, she joined the staff of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in Atlanta as director of Women's Work. Ames organized the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching as a volunteer movement within the Commission and ultimately beyond it. She travelled extensively throughout Texas and the South, speaking and organizing support for racial justice.

In addition to her public career, Ames faced significant challenges in her family life. The family was profoundly affected when Lulu was crippled by polio in 1920. The financial struggle of single motherhood intensified when her mother's resources were wiped out in the Depression. Jessie was determined to make her children, particularly her daughters, financially independent. Mary and Frederick became pediatricians and Lulu, though crippled by polio in childhood, supported herself as an editor.

Jessie Daniel Ames retired to Tryon, N.C., in 1945 and died in 1972.

For further information see Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching (Columbia, 1979).

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The papers of civil rights worker Jessie Daniel Ames of Atlanta, Ga., Georgetown, Tex., and Tryon, N.C., include correspondence, speeches, reports, clippings, autobiographies, school materials, photographs, and other papers relating to her public service and private life. Organizational papers document Ames's work as officer of the Texas Interracial Commission and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in Atlanta and as founder of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. Subjects include education, lynching, domestic servants, conferences, public opinion, and other dimensions of race relations. Correspondents include Howard Odum, Guy B. Johnson, Will W. Alexander, and George Washington Carver. Included is a 1930 color poster from the Soviet Union that uses lynching to denounce both Christianity and the United States. Family papers document Ames's efforts as a single parent to raise and educate three children. Letters show that Frederick (1907-1959) became a pediatrician with a private practice in Houston, Tex., and served as a Navy physician during World War II; Mary became a pediatrician in Harrisburg, Pa., and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; and Lulu, crippled by polio as a child, became a successful editor.

Due to Jessie Daniel Ames's role as a founder of the “Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching,” a group that worked to document, publicize, and help pass legislation to prevent the lynching of Black people in the United States, the collection includes graphic and violent images depicting public executions, lynching scenes, and scenes depicting racialized violence.

Collection contains images depicting members, slogans, and paraphernalia associated with the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist and domestic terrorist organization.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Subject Files, 1920-1963.

About 1,280 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Correspondence, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, and related materials all concerning Jessie Daniel Ames's work for racial justice and women's rights. Included are files of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, and the Texas Commission on Interracial Cooperation, as well as other public service files.

See also P-3686/374-375 showing attendees of the joint meeting of the ASWPL and African American members of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation at Tuskegee Institute (1938).

Due to Jessie Daniel Ames's role as a founder of the “Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching,” a group that worked to document, publicize, and help pass legislation to prevent the lynching of Black people in the United States, this series includes graphic and violent images depicting public executions, lynching scenes, and scenes depicting racialized violence.

Series contains images depicting members, slogans, and paraphernalia associated with the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist and domestic terrorist organization.

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 1.1. Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, 1926-1954.

About 410 items.

Organizational papers, case histories of lynchings investigated by the ASWPL and others, and newspaper clippings about lynching and the ASWPL. Jessie Daniel Ames organized the ASWPL as a volunteer movement within the Commission on Interracial Cooperation after 1929.

Due to Jessie Daniel Ames's role as a founder of the “Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching,” a group that worked to document, publicize, and help pass legislation to prevent the lynching of Black people in the United States, this subseries includes graphic and violent images depicting public executions, lynching scenes, and scenes depicting racialized violence.

Subseries contains images depicting members, slogans, and paraphernalia associated with the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist and domestic terrorist organization.

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 1.1.1. Organizational Papers, 1930-1941.

About 150 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence, conference materials, scattered minutes of meetings, resolutions, progress reports, lynching statistics, and other research materials. Ames's correspondence was chiefly with women leaders in various Southern states and with other organizations interested in her goals. Also included are letters she wrote congratulating law officers in cases of lynching prevention.

Due to Jessie Daniel Ames's role as a founder of the “Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching,” a group that worked to document, publicize, and help pass legislation to prevent the lynching of Black people in the United States, this subseries includes graphic and violent images depicting public executions, lynching scenes, and scenes depicting racialized violence.

Subseries contains images depicting members, slogans, and paraphernalia associated with the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist and domestic terrorist organization.

Folder 1

1930

Oversize Image OP-P-3686/4

Color poster from the Soviet Union, 1930

Includes graphic and violent images depicting public executions, lynching scenes, and scenes depicting racialized violence.

Folder 2

1931

Folder 3

1932

Folder 4

1933

Folder 5

1934-1936

Oversize Image OP-P-3686/5

"Lynchings, 1882-1936" (black and white poster)

Folder 6

1937-1938

Includes images depicting members, slogans, and paraphernalia associated with the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist and domestic terrorist organization.

Folder 7

1939

Folder 8

1940-1941

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 1.1.2. Clippings, Lynching Investigations, and Lynching Legislation, 1926-1954.

About 260 items.

News stories about lynchings and editorials from newspapers and magazines relating to the Association's work and goals, case histories of individual lynchings investigated by the ASWPL, and files on federal legislation concerning lynching.

Due to Jessie Daniel Ames's role as a founder of the “Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching,” a group that worked to document, publicize, and help pass legislation to prevent the lynching of Black people in the United States, this subseries includes graphic and violent images depicting public executions, lynching scenes, and scenes depicting racialized violence.

Subseries contains images depicting members, slogans, and paraphernalia associated with the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist and domestic terrorist organization.

Folder 9

Clippings: Editorials organized by state, 1930-1931

Folder 10

Clippings: Northern press on the ASWPL, 1930-1934

Includes graphic and violent images depicting public executions, lynching scenes, and scenes depicting racialized violence.

Oversize Volume SV-3686/1

Scrapbook of editorials on the ASWPL, 1930-1938

Includes graphic and violent images depicting public executions, lynching scenes, and scenes depicting racialized violence.

Folder 11

Clippings: Newspaper clippings, 1931-1940

Includes graphic and violent images depicting public executions, lynching scenes, and scenes depicting racialized violence.

Folder 12

Clippings: Stories of lynchings and editorials by state, 1935-1940

Folder 13

Clippings: West and midwest opinions on lynching, 1935-1940

Folder 14

Clippings: Publicity, 1940

Folder 15

Clippings: Newspaper clippings, 1926-1954

Folder 16

Lynching investigations: Lynchings investigated by men, 1930-1940

Folder 17

Lynching investigations: Investigation of alleged lynching, Woodcliffe, Ga., 1939

Folder 18

Lynching legislation: Status of federal anti-lynching bill, 1934-1937

Folder 19

Lynching legislation: Congressional Record, Senate filibuster, Costigan-Wagner Bill, April 1935

Folder 20-21

Folder 20

Folder 21

Congressional Record: Anti-lynching bill, 1937

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 1.2. Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1920-1963.

About 450 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

The Commission on Interracial Cooperation was founded in Atlanta in 1919 by John J. Eagan, Will W. Alexander, and M. Ashby Jones. The membership spanned the South and included representatives of organizations interested in eliminating racial discrimination and in achieving more equitable race relations. (Official papers of the Commission are at Atlanta University.)

In 1929, Jessie Daniel Ames joined the staff of the Commission in Atlanta as director of women's work and during the years that followed she organized the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching as a volunteer movement within the Commission and ultimately beyond it. In 1940, she started and edited The Southern Frontier, while serving as field secretary of the Commission.

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 1.2.1. Organizational Papers, 1920-1963.

About 350 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence, reports, speeches by Jessie Daniel Ames and others, programs, minutes of meetings, news bulletins, committee information, and other papers. Much of this material relates to conferences held at Durham (October 1942), Atlanta (April and August 1943), and Richmond (June 1943). Results of a 1940 survey of domestic workers are included. Also included are photographs taken at the 1938 joint meeting of the ASWPL and African American members of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation at Tuskegee Institute. Papers after 1942 consist chiefly of correspondence, including letters from Guy B. Johnson and Howard Odum.

Folder 22

1920

Folder 23

1921-1927

Folder 24

1928-1934

Folder 25

1935-1939

Folder 26

1940

Folder 27

1940: Domestic survey

Folder 28

1941

Folder 29-30

Folder 29

Folder 30

1942

Folder 31-38

Folder 31

Folder 32

Folder 33

Folder 34

Folder 35

Folder 36

Folder 37

Folder 38

1943

Folder 39

1944-1946

Folder 40

1950-1963 and undated

Image P-3686/374

Attendees of the joint meeting of the ASWPL and African American members of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation at Tuskegee Institute, 1938

Captions identify the participants, who included Bertha Newell, Frances C. Williams (Fannie), Mary McLeod Bethune, and Jessie Daniel Ames.

Image P-3686/375

"Negro Women attending Interracial Conference," Tuskegee, 1938

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 1.2.2. Clip Sheets and Southern Frontier, 1940-1945.

About 100 items.

Typescripts of news reports about race relations excerpted from newspapers across the United States. Reports include information from the African American press, particularly Black Dispatch (Okla.); St. Louis Argus; Atlanta World; Jackson Advocate (Miss.); Chicago Defender; and Pittsburgh Courier. Press coverage documents World War II era race riots in Detroit and Harlem.

In 1940, while serving as Field Secretary of the Commission, Jessie Daniel Ames started and edited The Southern Frontier, a magazine that focused on race relations, particularly political and economic issues, education, health, and lynching.

Folder 41

July-December 1942

Folder 42-43

Folder 42

Folder 43

1943

Folder 44

January-February 1944

Folder 45

Southern Frontier, 1940

Folder 46

Southern Frontier, 1945

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About 260 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Chiefly correspondence documenting Jessie Daniel Ames's travels, speeches, organizational efforts, and political action. Ames became vice-president of the Texas Commission on Interracial Cooperation in 1922 when a Woman's Division of the Texas Commission was organized. In 1924, she became part-time executive secretary of the Texas Commission. Letters to Ames document the work of other women in the organization and in churches and women's clubs. Letters show that these women were particularly concerned about education, health, and lynching as primary issues of race relations in Texas. Correspondents also include Will Alexander and various church leaders.

In addition to correspondence, papers include reports, minutes of meetings, rosters and committee lists, and materials related to a proposed training school for delinquent African American girls (1929). Papers document Lulu Daniel Ames's work with the Texas Commission during the 1940s.

Folder 47

1922-1923

Folder 48-50

Folder 48

Folder 49

Folder 50

1924

Folder 51

1925-1926

Folder 52

1927-1928

Folder 53

1929

Folder 54

1940-1941

Folder 55-57

Folder 55

Folder 56

Folder 57

1942

Folder 58

1943

Folder 59

1944-1946 and undated

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 1.4. Related Materials, 1925-1942.

About 160 items.

Correspondence, a draft of a thesis, campaign materials, and related items.

Draft of Henry Paul Hauser's M.A. Thesis, "The Southern Regional Council," (University of North Carolina, Department of History, 1950). This excerpt documents Jessie Daniel Ames's role in the Southern race relations conferences held at Durham, Atlanta, and Richmond (1942-1943), from which the Southern Regional Council evolved (1943-1944).

Correspondence between Jessie Daniel Ames and Bertha Newell of North Carolina. Mrs. Newell was sometime superintendent of the Bureau of Christian Social Relations of the Woman's Missionary Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; member of the Board of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and second vice president of the Commission; and secretary of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. Along with her letters to Jessie Daniel Ames, there is also correspondence with Maud Palmer Henderson, who was in charge of woman's work on the Commission during the 1920s, and others.

Materials related to the congressional campaign of Harry Knox include press releases and newspaper clippings. These papers document Lulu Daniel Ames's involvement in the campaign.

Folder 60-62

Folder 60

Folder 61

Folder 62

Newell correspondence, 1925-1940

Folder 63

Harry Knox congressional campaign, 1942

Folder 64

Henry Paul Hauser, MA thesis on Durham, Atlanta and Richmond conferences

Folder 65

Clippings

Folder 66-67

Folder 66

Folder 67

Pamphlets and printed materials

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 2. Family Papers, 1866-1973.

About 2,280 items.

Correspondence, autobiographies, school writings, pictures, and other papers related to family matters. These materials combine personal papers of Jessie Daniel and Lulu Daniel Ames.

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.1. Correspondence, 1891-1968, 1973 and undated.

About 1,740 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Family correspondence relates primarily to interpersonal relationships among family members and contains only scattered references to Jessie Daniel Ames's work with ASWPL and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation.

Note: scattered handwritten notes written by Lulu Daniel Ames during the 1970s provide contextual information not always explicit in correspondence.

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About 30 items.

Chiefly letters documenting the marriage of Jessie Daniel and Roger Post Ames. The two were separated during much of their married life. While he worked as a United States Public Health Service doctor, pursuing medical research on tropical diseases in South America, she lived with her sister Lulu Daniel Hardy in Columbia, Tenn. The marriage was stormy and few personal letters remain between Jessie and Roger. Instead letters tend to be from Roger or Jessie to other family members and contain little information about their personal relationship. On 14 November 1914, the United States consular service informed Jessie's brother-in-law, James Hardy, that Roger Post Ames had died of blackwater fever.

Folder 68

1891-1913

Folder 69

1914

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About 400 items.

Correspondence chiefly related to Jessie's three children, Frederick, Mary, and Lulu, from preschool through college. During this period Jessie Daniel Ames took on the daunting challenges of single motherhood and the pursuit of racial justice in Texas and beyond. She lived in Georgetown, Tex., but spent increasing time on the road engaged in work for the Texas Commission on Interracial Cooperation. The children spent their summers with relatives in Gulfport, Miss. These family separations produced much correspondence between mother and children. Mary is less represented in correspondence of this period than her two siblings.

The family faced its greatest challenge when Lulu contracted polio in 1920. (See Jessie's letter of 6 March 1966, in Subseries 2.1.5, for a synopsis of Lulu's illness and treatments). Jessie's correspondence with doctors and with Lulu documents the painful operations and treatments the child endured. By 1928, letters show that Lulu was able to attend school.

Frederick Daniel Ames wrote energetic letters from Gulfport full of news about games, sports, and interests pursued by an active boy. Several letters in the summer of 1924 document his trip West, including visits to Pikes Peak and Yellowstone. In 1925, letters show that Frederick began his college education at Southwestern College, and that summer he traveled to Guatemala.

There are some scattered references to Jessie's work with the League of Women Voters and her efforts for racial justice. She moved to Atlanta in 1929 to join the staff of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation.

Folder 70

1917-1920

Folder 71

1921

Folder 72

1922-1923

Folder 73-76

Folder 73

Folder 74

Folder 75

Folder 76

1924

Folder 77-79

Folder 77

Folder 78

Folder 79

1925

Folder 80

1926

Folder 81

1927

Folder 82-83

Folder 82

Folder 83

1928

Folder 84-88

Folder 84

Folder 85

Folder 86

Folder 87

Folder 88

1929

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.1.3. 1930-1941.

About 500 items.

Chiefly letters from Frederick, Mary, and Lulu to their mother. The family lived dispersed during this period. Jessie began her responsibilities with the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in Atlanta. Frederick and Mary attended medical school, and Lulu went to college and launched her editing career. There is no correspondence among the children, but their letters to Jessie show that despite their separations and conflicts the family remained close.

Frederick's letters document his experience at Harvard medical school, his pediatric residency at Children's Hospital in Boston, and his efforts to establish a private pediatric practice in Houston, Tex. Frederick married Hope Carl in 1933. Jessie wrote a few letters to her new daughter-in-law offering advice about men and marriage. Not long after his marriage, Frederick left Boston to begin a private pediatric practice in Houston, Tex. His letters document the challenges of setting up private medical practice, including information about his patients, fees, and making house calls.

Jessie wrote her daughters advice about men and dating, counseling them to protect their independence. Based on her own experience, Jessie wanted to be sure that both daughters would become self-supporting adults. Mary attended medical school at the University of Texas in Galveston from about 1935 to 1940. Letters show that she held various jobs to help finance her education. Lulu graduated from high school in 1932, with dreams of becoming a writer. In 1936, she graduated from Agnes Scott College and worked as editor (in 1938, for The Farmer's Banner in Waco, Tex., official publication of the Texas Agricultural Association). In 1941, Lulu was working for Capitol Report Service in Austin, Tex., with writing and editorial responsibilities. Her letters show that she shared her mother's passion for state politics.

Scattered letters from Laura Leonard Daniel contain references to her own church work, especially participation in the missionary society, and involvement in the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Family letters also contain references to recreational activities, such as reading materials and movies, along with opinions about national and international events or circumstances. For example, Mary discussed segregation as it related to the medical system. Although there is little information about Lulu's condition during this period, letters document special treatment she received during the summer of 1934. Letters show that Mary and Lulu visited Tuskegee Institute where Lulu apparently received experimental physical therapy. George Washington Carver wrote a follow-up letter to Jessie (18 August 1934) explaining the therapeutic use of peanut oil to improve Lulu's condition.

Folder 89-90

Folder 89

Folder 90

1930

Folder 91

1931

Folder 92-93

Folder 92

Folder 93

1932

Folder 94

1933

Folder 95-96

Folder 95

Folder 96

1934

Folder 97-99

Folder 97

Folder 98

Folder 99

1935

Folder 100

1936

Folder 101

1937

Folder 102

1938

Folder 103-104

Folder 103

Folder 104

1939

Folder 105-109

Folder 105

Folder 106

Folder 107

Folder 108

Folder 109

1940

Folder 110-115

Folder 110

Folder 111

Folder 112

Folder 113

Folder 114

Folder 115

1941

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.1.4. 1942-1945.

About 120 items.

Letters documenting the family's experience of World War II and Jessie's decision to retire. In 1942, Frederick wrote his mother frequently from the United States Navy Recruiting Station at Little Rock, Ark., where he worked as a physician examining recruits. Hope accompanied him there, and they had their first child, Freddie, in February 1943. Shortly thereafter, Frederick was transferred to San Francisco. Letters he wrote to Jessie document his involvement in action in the Pacific theatre of the war. In 1945, he was wounded at Okinawa and returned to Texas in June.

Mary wrote her mother substantive letters about her work at Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit and at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. There is also scattered correspondence between Lulu and an editor about the book she hoped to publish. Unfortunately, in 1944 Lulu was forced to take a leave of absence from Capitol Report Services because of pain related to her paralysis.

In 1944, Jessie moved to Tryon, N.C. She wrote to her daughter-in-law Hope (29 January 1944) about her retirement from the Commission on Interracial Cooperation.

Folder 116

1942

Folder 117-118

Folder 117

Folder 118

1943

Folder 119

1944

Folder 120a

1945

Folder 120b

1945

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.1.5. 1946-1968, 1973.

About 650 items.

Correspondence documenting Jessie's retirement and her relationships with her adult children. Lulu, Mary, and Frederick continued to write their mother, but there are many more letters from Jessie for this period than previously. Retirement gave Jessie time to review her past. She focused almost exclusively on family circumstances rather than evaluations of her public service work. Her letters for this period in particular reveal complex family relationships as Jessie and her adult children faced accumulated resentments and continued commitment to each other. She labeled many of these diary-like epistles "wailing wall" letters, some of which she apparently never mailed.

Letters show that Jessie worked during this period to gain recognition for Roger Post Ames's research in South America. In 1958, she achieved official government recognition for her late husband's research contributions when he was posthumously awarded a Congressional Medal for his work in the Walter Reed malarial control program. Letters also show that Jessie remained politically active even after retirement: for example, on 9 March 1952 she discussed her attendance at the executive meeting of the state (N.C.) Democratic Committee. During the 1960s Jessie wrote regular "reports" to her daughters containing information about her daily routine in Tryon, her health, family reminiscences, political opinions (especially about LBJ, Nixon, and national party politics). She increasingly complained about the difficulties of aging.

After the war, Frederick returned to private practice in Houston. He and Hope had a second child, Marcia, in 1947. Frederick died of cancer in August 1959, and much of the correspondence for this year relates to his illness and death. Thereafter, Hope sent occasional letters about her struggle to support the children as a primary school teacher in Houston. The relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was difficult and unfriendly. Scattered letters survive from the Ames grandchildren during their college years in the 1960s. Freddie attended medical school at Galveston, and Marcia was an undergraduate at Rice.

In 1948, Lulu had a successful operation to relieve her pain. She recuperated from her surgery and returned as manager of Capitol Report Service in Austin, Tex. She was Jessie's most frequent correspondent during this period and her letters document her continued interest in politics and writing, and her increasing involvement in the Methodist church, teaching Sunday school and otherwise.

After the war, Mary moved from hospital practice to her own private pediatric practice in Harrisburg, Pa. In 1949, she married Dr. Edward C. Raffensperger. Letters document her pregnancy in 1950, but the child was stillborn. In 1962, Mary and Edward left their joint private practice for faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania hospital and medical school. In 1967, they toured medical facilities and lectured in Europe, sending letters from Sweden, Poland, Greece, Turkey and elsewhere. Mary's letters contain information and opinions about Vietnam, socialism, politics of the 1960s, and school desegregation in Philadelphia (1968), and references to the assassinations of Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy.

Folder 121

1946

Folder 122

1947

Folder 123-125

Folder 123

Folder 124

Folder 125

1948

Folder 126-127

Folder 126

Folder 127

1949

Folder 128-129

Folder 128

Folder 129

1950

Folder 130

1951

Folder 131-132

Folder 131

Folder 132

1952

Folder 133

1953

Folder 134

1954

Folder 135

1955

Folder 136

1956

Folder 137

1957

Folder 138-139

Folder 138

Folder 139

1958

Folder 140-144

Folder 140

Folder 141

Folder 142

Folder 143

Folder 144

1959

Folder 145-147

Folder 145

Folder 146

Folder 147

1960

Folder 148-149

Folder 148

Folder 149

1961

Folder 150

1962-1965

Folder 151

1966

Folder 152-153

Folder 152

Folder 153

1967

Folder 154-155

Folder 154

Folder 155

1968, 1973

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.1.6. Undated.

About 40 items.

Undated letters and letter fragments of Lulu, Frederick, Mary, and Jessie Daniel Ames, and others.

Folder 156-157

Folder 156

Folder 157

Undated

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2. Autobiographies and Family History, 1941-1943 and undated.

About 100 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by author or family member.

These materials contain powerful testimony and revealing information about family matters that are less fully developed in personal correspondence. Autobiographies and family histories consist not so much of genealogy as of personal narratives and deep reflections on complex interpersonal relationships. For example, Jessie Daniel Ames discussed and evaluated her stormy marriage to Roger Post Ames and her contradictory feelings toward her sister Lulu Daniel Hardy. Lulu Hardy's daughter, Laura Hardy Crites offers another perspective in her narrative on the sisters' relationship. Lulu Daniel Ames described her personal struggle against polio in a voluminous autobiographical story about a girl named Jane. This material is presented almost exclusively from the perspective of Ames family women and other female relatives.

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Jessie Daniel Ames: "The Story of My Life"

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Jessie Daniel Ames: Biographical material

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Lulu Daniel Ames: Autobiographical story

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Lulu Daniel Ames: Diary, 1941-1943

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Roger Post Ames

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Laura Hardy Crites: "The Sisters"

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Laura Leonard Daniel

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Lulu Daniel Hardy: "In the Fullness of Time"

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Lulu Daniel Hardy: "Whose Leaf Doth Not Wither"

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Daniel family

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Other families

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.3. School Materials, 1897-1965.

About 100 items.

Arrangement: by family member.

The bulk of this material consists of essays written chiefly by Jessie and Lulu Daniel Ames. Mother and daughter both had a lifelong interest in writing and worked to improve their skills beyond the formal classroom setting. In 1940, Jessie enrolled in an advanced composition class offered through the Home Study Department of the University of Chicago. Correspondence and corrected essays document her performance. She chose to write several essays about Southern race relations. Other school materials include grade reports of Frederick Daniel Ames at Southwestern University, Lulu Daniel Ames at Decatur High School, and other items.

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Jessie Daniel Ames: School essays, circa 1897

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Jessie Daniel Ames: University of Chicago correspondence course, circa 1940

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Lulu Daniel Ames: School writings

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Lulu Daniel Ames: The Broadcaster: Decatur high school newspaper edited by Lulu Daniel Ames

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Miscellaneous school materials

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.4. Other Family Papers, 1866 and undated.

About 65 items.

Two commonplace books compiled by Jessie Daniel Ames; a list of books Ames kept in her personal library; editorials and other professional writings of Lulu Daniel Ames; scattered bills and receipts; and other materials.

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Jessie Daniel Ames: Commonplace book

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Jessie Daniel Ames: Library inventory

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Lulu Daniel Ames: Writings

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Folder 191

Writings (author unidentified)

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The Freemason's Monitor, 1866

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Bills and receipts

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Miscellaneous clippings

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Printed materials

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Microfilm

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.5. Pictures, 1860s-1972.

About 375 items.

Pictures from four family photo albums and loose pictures. The albums have been dismantled for conservation purposes. Photocopies of the original album pages are filed together with detached pictures.

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.5.1. Jesse Daniel Ames Photograph Album, 1902-1965 and undated.

About 35 items.

Pictures originally contained in an album showing Jessie Daniel Ames at various ages.

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Jessie Daniel Ames, 1903

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Jessie Daniel Ames, 1905

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Jessie Daniel Ames, 1906

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Jessie Daniel Ames with Frederick Daniel Ames seated on her lap, December 1907

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Jessie Daniel Ames, September 1912

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Roger Post Ames, Jessie Daniel Ames, Mary Daniel Ames, and Frederick Daniel Ames, Guatemale, Calif., Summer 1914

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Roger Post Ames, Mary Daniel Ames, and Frederick Daniel Ames, Calif., 1914

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Jessie Daniel Ames, 1916

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Jessie Daniel Ames, 1920

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Jessie Daniel Ames, 1923: Photograph taken as president of the state League of Women's Voters

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Jessie Daniel Ames, 1929

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Jessie Daniel Ames, 1933

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"Frank King and Jessie Daniel Ames, Congress Ave., Austin, 1939."

According to a handwritten note by Lulu Daniel Ames, the photograph must have been taken in the 1940s just before King died.

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Jessie Daniel Ames, 1939

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Jessie Daniel Ames and Mary Daniel Ames, Interracial Commission Headquarters, Atlanta, Ga., 1941

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Jessie Daniel Ames and Lulu Daniel Hardy, 1955

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Jessie Daniel Ames, Lulu Daniel Hardy, Laura Hardy Crites, Christmas Day, 1955

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Jessie Daniel Ames, July 1964

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Jessie Daniel Ames, Dr. Durwood Fleming (president of Southwestern University), Mrs. Durwood Fleming, Georgetown, Tex., 23 May 1965

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"From left to right: Dean Ruth Ferguson, Miss Mattie Loventhall, Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames, Miss Velma Tisdale, Mrs. E. P. Miles--Charter Members of the Georgetown Branch of AAUW," 23 May 1965

According to a handwritten note: "Mattie taught all 3 Ames children in public school Georgetown."

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"From left to right: Mrs. Mildred Gervasi--Head librarian at SU and past president of Georgetown AAUW. Miss Mary Elizabeth Fox--SU Director of Publicity and President of AAUW. Miss Lulu Daniel Ames, of Austin. Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames, of Tryon, N.C. Mrs. Durwood Fleming--wife of President, SU," 23 May 1965

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"Jessie Daniel Ames and Ray Hyer Brown--former member of Sunday School Class, Teacher--Jessie Daniel Ames, 1904-1905," 23 May 1965

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Jessie Daniel Ames and Lulu Daniel Ames, Georgetown, Tex., 23 May 1965

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Jessie Daniel Ames, 24 May 1965

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Jessie Daniel Ames, undated

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.5.2. Ames Family Photograph Album, 1924-1941 and undated.

About 90 items.

Pictures originally contained in an Ames Family photo album documenting the family life of Jessie, Frederick, Mary, and Lulu Daniel Ames. Images show family trips, various residences, pets, toys, cars, friends, and relatives.

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Covered bridge, North Georgia, 1939

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Unidentified river or lake, North Georgia, 1939

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Covered bridge, Windsor, Vt., 1939

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Lulu, Jessie, and Mary Daniel Ames, Decatur, Ga., Fall of 1937

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Lulu Daniel Ames and cats, Decatur, Ga., 1937

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Lulu and Mary Daniel Ames with cats, Decatur, 1937

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Verona Daniel and Lulu Hardy, Decatur, Christmas 1937

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Jessie Daniel Ames and Lulu Daniel Hardy, Decatur, 1937

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Mary, Jessie, and Lulu Daniel Ames, Decatur, 1937

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Verona Hardy and Jessie Daniel Ames, Decatur, 1937

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Lulu Daniel Hardy and Lulu Daniel Ames, Decatur, 1937

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The Carl Girls, Houston, Tex., 1937

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Mary Ames and J. G. "Bodie" Bodenhawer

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Brady J. G. Bodenhawer

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Mary Ames, Louise Kirkland, and Lulu Daniel Ames, Decatur, 1939

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Mary Ames, Anatomy Lay, Galveston, Tex., 1939

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Mary, Jessie, and Lulu Daniel Ames, Decatur, 1939

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Jessie and Lulu Daniel Ames, circa 1939

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Mary Ames, North Georgia, 1939

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Mary Ames standing in front of covered bridge, North Georgia, 1939

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J. G. "Bodie" Bodenhawer, North Georgia, 1939

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J. G. "Bodie" Bodenhawer, North Georgia, 1939-1940

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Mary Daniel Ames, North Georgia, 1939

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Mary Ames, Camp Nakanawa, Mayland, Tenn., 1938

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Covered bridge and Connecticut River, Windsor, Vt., 1939

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Verona Hardy, Paris, France, Spring of 1938

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Verona Hardy, Ticonderoga, N.Y., 1939

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Verona Weinberg, Warm Springs, 1933

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Mr. and Mrs. Weinberg, Warm Springs, 1933

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Revolutionary ancestors' tombs, New Mexico, Ind.

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Leonard Family home, Camden, Ind., 1935

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Lulu, Mary, and Jessie Daniel Ames, trip to Dallas, near Waco, sitting in car, Summer of 1924

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Cousin John Kerlin "among the flowers with his wife Cousin Stella," 1941, Rockfield, Ind.

Stella seated beside open casket containing Cousin Kerlin.

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Jessie Jesperson and Oscar Jr., Albany, Calif., 1940

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J. H. Leonard, Topeka, Kans., Spring of 1938

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John Yarwell, Topeka, Kans., circa 1933

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Jessie Daniel Ames, Topeka, Kans., Spring of 1938

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Mary and Jessie Daniel Ames, Decatur, 1929

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Jessie Daniel Ames, Decatur, 1939

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Jessie Daniel Ames, Georgetown, Tex., 1927

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Mrs. J. L. Brock, Bryan [Ga.?], 1937

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Jessie Daniel Ames, Georgetown, Tex., 1927

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Jessie Daniel Ames, Frederick Daniel Ames, and Max (dog), Georgetown, 1911

Frederick riding a four-wheeled cart.

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Jessie Daniel Ames, Atlanta, Ga., 1941

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Jessie Daniel Ames, Houston, Tex., 1939

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Lulu and Mary Daniel Ames, [Topeka, Kans.?], [1939?]

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Mary Daniel Ames, Sycamore Street, Decatur, Ga., 1937

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Mortar Board, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga., 1935-1936

Lulu Daniel Ames pictured.

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"Grandmother and son," Laura Leonard Daniel and Frederick Daniel Ames, Colorado, 1925

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Laura Leonard Daniel and Frederick Daniel Ames, Sycamore St., Decatur, Ga., 1935

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Mary Daniel Ames, 1913

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Mary Wood, Boulder, Colo., 1929

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Mary Daniel Ames, Newell Farm, Cabarrus County, N.C., 1938

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Jessie Daniel Ames, Georgetown, Tex., 1927

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Jessie Daniel Ames, Wren's Nest, 1948

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Mary and Jessie Daniel Ames, Wren's Nest, 1948

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Mary and Jessie Daniel Ames, Sycamore St., Decatur, Ga., 1936

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James Daniel Hardy, Jessie Daniel Ames, Augusta, and George, Los Altos, Calif., 1952

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Unidentified man and women

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Mary Daniel Ames, teenager, undated

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Lulu Daniel Ames, as young girl in front of car, undated

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.5.3. Lulu Daniel Ames Photograph Album, 1898-1956 and undated.

About 120 items.

Pictures originally contained in an album created by Lulu Daniel Ames documenting her residences, friends, and activities.

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Street scenes showing house and neighborhood of Lulu Daniel Ames, 206 East Tenth Street, Austin, Tex., 1954

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Interiors of Lulu Daniel Ames's house showing cat and chair

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"House views with occupant [Lulu Daniel Ames]," Longview Street, Austin, Tex.

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Louise Kirkland, housekeeper who cared for the children during Ames's travels

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Lucille, Lulu Daniel Ames's maid, Austin, Tex.

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"The Deacon and Grandson"

African American man in shirt and tie knealing behind child

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Lulu Daniel Ames, standing on crutches beside car, Austin, Tex., circa 1954

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Lulu and Jessie Daniel Ames, Wren's Nest, Tryon, N.C., 1948

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Lulu Daniel Ames, 1940s

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Lulu Daniel Ames with friends in uniform, 1940s

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Lulu Daniel Ames in car and standing on crutches

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Lulu Daniel Ames at work

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Lulu Daniel Ames and unidentified man

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Unidentified man

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Lulu Daniel Ames, Florida, December 1943

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Lulu Daniel Ames and Julie Margaret

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Lulu Daniel Ames, James M. Daniel, and Julie Margaret

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Lulu Daniel Ames at party

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Lulu Daniel Ames, Austin, Tex.

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Lulu Daniel Ames in car

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Mary Daniel Ames and Studebaker, Wren's Nest, August 1948

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Jessie Daniel Ames, circa 1948

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"Christmas week--1950--Austin"

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"Christmas--1954--Austin"

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Christmas, 1954

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"Houses in Georgetown, Tex. in which the Daniel--Ames families lived"

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Daniel cemetery lot, Georgetown, Tex.

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Lois Perkins Chapel, Southwestern University, Georgetown

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"Mesquite Tree and Texas Sky, 1954 December--Parkway Motel"

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Landscapes, South San Gabriel

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"South Gabriel pictures taken Sunday 7 December 1908 with Papa"

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"Charley Leonard Daniel--Summer 1899--on gallery of Yaeger home"

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"Lelia Brewer--Spring 1898," wearing ruffled white dress, seated on sofa with pillows

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Lizzie Brewer, Jessie Daniel, and Ed Graham, 1898, seated on ground with picket fence in background

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Jessie Daniel, Lelia Brewer, and Ed Graham, 1898

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"Williamson County (Texas) Cotton Field--1899,"

Shows African American workers--men, women, and children--and two white men, one driving wagon, one weighing cotton

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James Malcolm Daniel, Mary Ellen Daniel, Julie Margaret--son and granddaughter of Charley Leonard Daniel and Margarita (Piatskowski) Daniel

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"Julie Margaret and Valerie Mary, daughters of Mary Ellen and James Malcolm Daniel"

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James Malcolm Daniel with Julie Margaret and Valerie Mary

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James M. Daniel family, 1950-1956

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Lulu Daniel Hardy and Jessie Daniel Ames, 1955

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Laura Hardy Crites, Jessie Daniel Ames, and Lulu Daniel Hardy, 1955

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Laura Hardy Crites

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Laura and Bob Crites, Christmas, Los Animas, Colo.

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Crites family, Los Animas, Colo.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.5.4. Ames and Daniel Family Photograph Album, 1860s-1942 and undated.

About 85 items.

Pictures apparently compiled by Jessie Daniel Ames into an album showing Daniel and Ames family ancestors, many dating from the nineteenth century.

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"Nathaniel Leonard, born 1841, died 1888, married 1836 [to] Martha Malinda Eidson"

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Marriage license of James M. Daniel and Laura M. Leonard, 6 January 1877, Carroll County, Ind.

Originally contained in photo album.

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Laura Marie Leonard

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Tintype: Laura Marie Leonard

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Martha M. Leonard

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Laura Leonard Daniel, circa 1925

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Frederick Daniel Ames

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Lulu Daniel Ames

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Mary Daniel Ames

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Frederick Carl Ames, grandson of Jessie Daniel Ames

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Marcia Hope Ames, granddaughter of Jessie Daniel Ames

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Laura Leonard Daniel, Jessie's mother

At various ages including 1933, age 79, "last picture of mamma."

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Jessie Daniel Ames, 1929

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James Malcolm Daniel, 1900

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Mary Daniel Ames, 1937

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Lulu Daniel Ames, 1936

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Frederick Daniel Ames, 1928

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Frederick Daniel Ames with his children, Marcia Hope and Frederick Carl Ames, 1949

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"Mr. and Mrs. John Moore Daniel, mother and father of Annie S., Charley and James Malcolm Daniel"

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Tintype: James Malcolm Daniel, 1871

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"John Moore Daniel, born 1819, died 1872, married [to] Marinda Sturges; 2nd marriage [to] Harriett Handy, children--John Handy, Walter Manton"

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James Malcolm Daniel, 1878

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Ames family cemetery plot, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, La.

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Ames family cemetery plot, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, La.

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Frederick Daniel Ames with Hope, Fred, and Marcia, Christmas Day, 1950

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Frederick Daniel Ames, 1913

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Frederick William Ames, father of Roger Post Ames

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Josephine Post Ames, mother of Roger Post Ames

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Frederick W. Ames, brother of Roger Post Ames

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Mother and father of Roger Post Ames at home, Pascagoula, Miss.

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Frederick William Ames as an old man

According to inscription, he was "born 1 September 1839."

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Lulu Daniel Ames

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Mary Daniel Ames

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John Ames, Eliza P. Ames, Mary Ann Ames, Eliza Frances Ames, circa 1860s

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Frederick Daniel Ames in uniform, 1942

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Frederick Daniel Ames, Hope Carl Ames, with children, Fred and Marcia

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Roger Post Ames from infancy through adult

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Mary Ann Ames, 1895-1925

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Frederick and Mary Daniel Ames, 1915

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Probably Frederick William Ames and Roger Post Ames

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Ames house in Pascagoula, Miss.

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Roger Post Ames with friends, 1914

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Roger Post Ames, 1898

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Jessie Daniel Ames, 1884: 2 months old

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Roger Post Ames: 9 months old

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Frederick Daniel Ames: 3 months old

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Mary Daniel Ames: 10 weeks old

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Lulu Daniel Ames: 8 weeks old

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Jesse Daniel Ames, 1897-1929

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"James Malcolm Daniel [1890-1904], youngest child of four, 1892"

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Charley Leonard Daniel

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Jessie Daniel Ames, circa 1888

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.5.5. Loose Family Pictures, 1909-1968 and undated.

About 55 items.

Loose family pictures. Many of these carry the handwritten identifications of Lulu Daniel Ames.

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"Uncle John Ames"

Man seated in sailor uniform; picture taken in Hong Kong studio.

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Frederick W. Ames Sr.

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Mrs. Frederick W. Ames

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"Laura Daniel and Frederick Ames and Max [dog], 1911, Georgetown, [Tex.]"

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Mrs. J. M. Daniel, Pikes Peak, 1917

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"Mrs. 'Captain' Jack, Buckhorn Mt. `'High Drive'' Colorado Springs, Colo., 8 August 1917"

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"Mrs. JMD and Buster McElroy, 1924, Colorado (Skyline Drive)"

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Laura Leonard Daniel

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Frederick and Mary Daniel Ames with Roger Post Ames, Guatemale, Calif., 1914

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Frederick Daniel Ames and Roger Post Ames, Guatemale, Calif., 1914

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Frederick Daniel Ames with Rex [dog], "House on Hill," 1909

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Frederick Daniel Ames on "English Mail" bicycle, "House on Hill," circa 1910

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Frederick Daniel Ames in knickers holding football, "House on the Hill," circa 1910

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Frederick and Mary Daniel Ames, circa 1914

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Frederick, Mary, and Lulu, circa 1915

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Mary and Lulu, "Big House," Georgetown, circa 1917

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Frederick Daniel Ames: 4 or 5 years old, Gulfport

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Lulu Daniel Ames, Gulfport, circa 1920

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Martha Southworth, Frederick, Mary, and Lulu, "Little House," Georgetown, 1919

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Aunt Mary Ames and Mary Daniel Ames, Gulfport

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Mary Daniel Ames and Rex [dog], Georgetown

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Frederick Daniel Ames, seated on dock in California, ships in background

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Frederick, Lulu, and Mary Daniel Ames with Laura, Jessie, and Verona Hardy, Gulfport, Summer 1920

Children gathered at swing.

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"Lulu Daniel Ames, Gulfport--second or third birthday," in white dress holding birthday cake

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Lulu Daniel Ames on beach, Gulfport

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Lulu Daniel Ames in wheelchair: "at St. Paul's Hsptl. Dls [Dallas], ca. 1921."

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Lulu Daniel Ames with cat

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Lulu Daniel Ames

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"After JDA's Funeral--2/72--Grgtwn at Durwood Fleming's. James Hardy, James Daniel, Freddie Ames, Eddie Raffensperger, Marcia, Hope, Augusta, MDA, LDA"

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Hope Ames, circa 1950

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Jessie Daniel Ames, Frederick Daniel Ames, Hope, Freddie, Marcia, Christmas 1950

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Frederick Daniel Ames and Marcia, Christmas 1954

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Freddie Ames in surgical greens, 1968

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Unidentified house in cotton field

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