Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4656
KER FAMILY PAPERS
Inventory
Abstract: Ker family and related Baker and other families of
Mississippi and Louisiana, including John Ker (1789-1850) of
Natchez, Miss., and Concordia Parish, La., who was a surgeon,
planter, 1830s Louisiana state senator, and vice president of
the American Colonization Society; his wife Mary Baker Ker (d.
1862); their daughter schoolteacher Mary Susan Ker (1838-1923),
who taught at the Natchez Institute; and two grandnieces whom
Mary Susan raised: Matilda Ralston (Tillie) Dunbar (fl.
1890s-1960s), who clerked in a Fayette, Miss., bank, and
Catharine Dunbar Brown (d. 1959), who first taught at the
Natchez Institute and later owned a rare book and antiques
store.
Topics discussed in materials, 1800-1960s, include medicine;
Louisiana and Mississippi plantation affairs; slavery;
Presbyterian church activities; local, state, and national
politics, including the conduct of the 1813-1814 Creek War and
the War of 1812 (note an 1814 Andrew Jackson letter about the
defense of Louisiana); men's and women's education, chiefly at
the Natchez Institute and Oakland College, Miss.; and travel,
especially Mary Susan Ker's 1886 European tour. There are also
materials relating to Mary Susan's and Catharine Dunbar Brown's
teaching at the Natchez Institute; to Tillie Dunbar's bank
clerking in Fayette, Miss.; and to Catharine's Ye Olde Booke
Shoppe in Natchez. Also included are estate papers, bills and
receipts, property inventories, wills and indentures, slave
lists, account books, and other items documenting antebellum
plantation and land holdings and postwar plantation and
personal finances. There are also a few diaries, clippings,
19th- and early 20th-century pedagogical materials, and family
photographs. Other papers include scattered records of John
Ker's work with the American Colonization Society and extensive
records of the Natchez branches of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, 1924-1968, and the Colonial Dames of
America, 1941-1967, in which both Tillie and Catharine were
active, and letters and Mardi Gras invitations to Sue Percy Ker
Hyams and other materials related to her.
Online Catalog Terms:
American Colonization Society.
Baker family.
Banks and banking--Mississippi--History--20th century.
Brown, Catharine Dunbar, d. 1959.
Colonial Dames of America--History.
Concordia Parish (La.)--Social life and customs.
Creek War, 1812-1814.
Daughters of the American Revolution--History.
Dunbar, Matilda Ralston (Tillie), fl. 1890s-1960s.
Family--Louisiana--Social life and customs.
Family--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.
Ker family.
Ker, John, 1789-1850.
Ker, Mary Susan, 1838-1923.
Louisiana--Politics and government--1803-1865.
Natchez (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
Natchez Institute (Miss.).
New Orleans (La.), Battle of, 1815.
Physicians--Southern States--History--19th century.
Plantations--Louisiana.
Plantations--Mississippi.
Presbyterian Church--Southern States--History--19th century.
Slavery--Louisiana.
Slavery--Mississippi.
War of 1812.
Women in business--Mississippi--History--20th century.
Women teachers--Mississippi--History.
Women travelers--Europe--History--19th century.
Women--Education--Mississippi--History--19th century.
Size: About 8,000 items (28.5 linear ft.).
Provenance: Received from Sue Ker Hyams of New Orleans, La., in April 1993
(Acc. 93052), September 1993 (Acc. 93131), October 1994 (Acc.
94141), June 1996 (Acc. 96076), and November 1996 (Acc. 96175).
Access: No restrictions.
Processing Note: Items separated: S-4656/1; P-4656/Folders 1-30; PA-4656/1;
SF-4656/1-2; A-4656/1
Related Collections: John Brownson Ker Papers (#3901);
Mary Susan Ker Papers (#1467);
David and Mary Boggs Ker Papers (#3771).
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their
descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Series Descriptions
Series 1. Nineteenth-Century Papers
Subseries 1.1. Correspondence
Subseries 1.2. Financial and Legal Papers
Subseries 1.3. Other Family Papers
Series 2. Twentieth-Century Papers
Subseries 2.1. Individual Family Members
Subseries 2.2. Organizational Papers
Series 3. Pictures
Addition of November 1996
Series 4. Letters
Series 5. Financial and Legal Material
Series 6. Genealogical Organizations and Related Material
Series 7. Schoolwork and Teaching and Related Material
Series 8. Mardi Gras
Series 9. Miscellaneous Material
Series 10. Pictures
INTRODUCTION
Biographical Note
Dr. John Ker (1789-1850) studied medicine in Philadelphia;
served as a surgeon in the Creek War; became a cotton planter in
Natchez, Miss., and Concordia Parish, La.; and served in the
Louisiana Senate in the 1830s. He also served as vice-president
of the American Colonization Society and vice-president of the
Mississippi Colonization Society. Ker married Mary Kenard Baker
of Kentucky in 1820. Mary's father Joshua Baker (fl. 1800-1814)
was a colonel in the army and a planter in Fort Adams, Miss. Her
brother Isaac L. Baker (fl. 1820s-1840s) was a planter in
Attakapas, La.
John and Mary Ker had five children: Mary Susan (1838-1923),
a teacher in Natchez, Miss.; Sarah Evelina (Mrs. Richard Butler)
of Terrebonne Parish, La.; David (1825-1884), a lawyer and sugar
planter who married Elizabeth Brownson of New York; John, Jr.
(1826-1902), a lawyer and cotton planter; Lewis (1831-1894), a
planter who took over his father's interests; and William Henry
(1841-1902), a cotton planter and later a teacher and principal
in Port Gibson, Miss., and in Natchez, who served as president of
the State Board of Education. William married Josephine (Josie)
Chamberlain.
Lewis Ker's first wife died during the Civil War, and he sent
his two daughters Mamie and Nellie to live with his sister Mary
Susan, who became their guardian in 1867. To support her wards,
she turned to teaching, receiving a certificate in 1874. In
1886, Mary Susan went to Europe as a travelling companion to her
cousin Amelia Metcalfe Choppin. She later returned to teaching
to raise two of Mamie's children, Matilda Ralston (Tillie) Dunbar
and Catharine Shields Dunbar, when Mamie died in 1894. Mary
Susan taught at the Natchez Institute from 1897 to 1907 and, from
1907 to 1915, at the Shield's Lane School in Adams County.
Catharine and Tillie lived with Mary Susan in a rented home in
Natchez until 1917, when Tillie bought a house.
Tillie Dunbar graduated from Stanton College in Natchez in
1904 and went to work as a clerk in a local store, Baker and
McDowell. In 1912, she left her job there to become a
stenographer for the law firm of Truly and Ratliffe and, in 1918,
became a clerk in the Jefferson County Bank that Truly owned in
Fayette, Miss. She boarded there and returned home on weekends.
Catharine Dunbar graduated from Natchez Institute in 1905 and
attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford, completing her
studies in 1908. She then began teaching at the Natchez
Institute, where she remained until 1918. She left that position
to work in the Britton & Koontz Bank in Natchez and later
operated a rare book and curio shop in Natchez. She married
Frederick Brown. Both Tillie and Catharine were active in civic
affairs in Natchez and were officers of the Natchez chapters of
the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Colonial Dames
of America.
Collection Overview
The collection is arranged as follows:
Series 1. Nineteenth-Century Papers
Subseries 1.1. Correspondence (about 715 items)
Subseries 1.1.1. 1800-1820 (about 110 items)
Subseries 1.1.2. 1821-1849 (about 450 items)
Subseries 1.1.3. 1850-1858 (about 70 items)
Subseries 1.1.4. 1860-1899 (about 50 items)
Subseries 1.1.5. Undated (about 35 items)
Subseries 1.2. Financial and Legal Papers (about 680 items)
Subseries 1.2.1. Antebellum (about 400 items)
Subseries 1.2.2. Civil War and Postwar (about 280 items)
Subseries 1.3. Other Family Papers (about 160 items)
Series 2. Twentieth-Century Papers
Subseries 2.1. Individual Family Members (about 3940 items)
Subseries 2.1.1. Mary Susan Ker (about 1450 items)
Subseries 2.1.1.1. Correspondence (about 340 items)
Subseries 2.1.1.2. Financial and Legal Papers
(about 210 items)
Subseries 2.1.1.3. Clippings (about 450 items)
Subseries 2.1.1.4. Teaching Materials (26 items)
Subseries 2.1.1.5. Other Papers and Volumes
(26 items)
Subseries 2.1.2. Matilda Ralston (Tillie) Dunbar
(about 1420 items)
Subseries 2.1.2.1. Correspondence (about 540 items)
Subseries 2.1.2.2. Business Papers (about 700 items)
Subseries 2.1.2.3. Other Papers (about 180 items)
Subseries 2.1.3. Catharine Shields Dunbar Brown
(about 900 items)
Subseries 2.1.3.1. Correspondence (about 240 items)
Subseries 2.1.3.2. Business Papers (about 600 items)
Subseries 2.1.3.3. Teaching Materials (41 items)
Subseries 2.1.3.4. Other Papers (19 items)
Series 2.1.4. Other Family Members (about 170 items)
Subseries 2.2. Organizational Records (about 1410 items)
Subseries 2.2.1. Daughters of the American Revolution
(about 960 items)
Subseries 2.2.1.1. General Files (about 550 items)
Subseries 2.2.1.2. Alphabetical File
(about 360 items)
Subseries 2.2.1.3. Rosalie (about 50 items)
Subseries 2.2.2. Colonial Dames of America
(about 450 items)
Subseries 2.2.2.1. Correspondence (about 240 items)
Subseries 2.2.2.2. Evansview (10 items)
Subseries 2.2.2.3. Other Material (about 200 items)
Series 3. Pictures (about 220 items)
Addition of November 1996
Series 4. Letters (about 600 items)
Series 5. Financial and Legal Material (about 100 items)
Series 6. Genealogical Organizations and Related Material
(about 200 items)
Series 7. Schoolwork and Teaching and Related Material (about
100 items)
Series 8. Mardi Gras (about 100 items)
Series 9. Miscellaneous Material (about 100 items)
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series 1. Nineteenth-Century Papers
1800-1899 and Undated. About 1555 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence, financial and legal, and other papers of the
Ker and Baker families of Mississippi and Louisiana and of
scattered Hunt, Robinson, and Butler relatives.
Subseries 1.1. Correspondence
1800-1899 and undated. About 715 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Chiefly antebellum and postwar correspondence of the Ker
family of Greenville and Natchez, Miss., and their Baker, Hunt,
and other relatives of Fort Adams, Miss., Attakapas, La.,
Philadelphia, and Cincinnati.
Subseries 1.1.1. 1800-1820
About 110 items.
Chiefly correspondence of John Ker of Natchez, Miss., in the
years prior to and months immediately following his marriage in
1820, with substantial correspondence of his brother David Ker of
Greenville, Miss., his father-in-law Joshua Baker of Fort Adams,
Miss., and his brother-in-law Isaac L. Baker, of Attakapas, La.
Additional scattered letters belong primarily to Ker's fiancee
Mary Kenard Baker, his mother Mary Boggs Ker, and his Hunt
relatives of Philadelphia and Cincinnati.
Early letters, 1800-1811, mostly discuss the finances and
military service of Joshua and Isaac Baker and the financial
affairs of Abijah Hunt. An item of interest is a letter, dated
10 December 1814, from General Andrew Jackson to Joshua Baker
concerning the appointment of Baker's son to West Point and the
defense of Louisiana against the British (A-4656/1).
Later letters, especially those exchanged by John and David
Ker, comment frequently on local and national politics, including
the Embargo of 1807 and mob actions; the Creek War, 1813-1814;
the War of 1812, 1814-1815; and the practice of medicine and law
on the Mississippi frontier. Of note are two letters, 27 January
1815 and 17 October 1817, discussing medical philosophy and the
relationship between the mind and body, and a letter dated 30
October 1816, describing a trip down the Mississippi River.
Remaining family letters reveal details of the social activities,
education, finances, travel, health, and slaves of various Ker,
Baker, Porter, and Nutt relatives in Mississippi, Tennessee,
Louisiana, and Kentucky.
Folder 1 1800, 1803-1804, 1806, 1808-1809
2 1811-1813
3 1814
4 1815-1816
5 1817
6 1818-1819
7 1820
Subseries 1.1.2. 1821-1849
About 450 items.
Correspondence of John Ker, with substantial correspondence of
Mary Baker Ker, Sarah Robinson of Natchez, and David Hunt of
Lexington, Ky. There are also occasional items addressed to
Isaac L. Baker; James and Sarah Metcalfe; several of the Ker
children, including Sarah, Mary Susan, John, and David; and
miscellaneous others.
John Ker's most frequent correspondents were his wife, sons
David and John, associates Stephen Duncan and George Potts, and
Judge A. W. Porter, Jr. John and Mary exchanged numerous
letters, 1828-1845, while John served in the state Senate in New
Orleans or was away on business. They discussed politics and
Senate business; plantation and religious affairs in Natchez;
their finances; and the education, rearing, and health of their
children. David and John wrote their father frequently from
Oakland College, 1841-1843, describing their material and
academic life, and later from Houma, Miss., and other locations
concerning their travels and work.
Letters, 1823-1849, from Stephen Duncan, who managed many of
Ker's financial affairs, discuss business and occasionally
medicine and politics. George Potts, a Presbyterian minister who
left Natchez for a new post in New York, wrote, 1835-1849,
discussing his replacement, his New York ministry, Ker's
management of his financial affairs, and antislavery sentiment in
the North. Judge A. W. Porter, Jr., wrote, 1831-1837, from New
Orleans and Washington City discussing Louisiana and national
politics, frequently criticizing President Jackson's policies.
Scattered letters from others also discuss politics. A few
letters, 1831-1835, mention Ker's role in the American
Colonization Society.
Mary Ker's correspondence, besides that with her husband, is
mostly with her brother Isaac, 1821-1829; her sister Sarah
Metcalfe; her niece Anne Porter; and, after 1840, her children.
Letters discuss plantation and Presbyterian church affairs, the
welfare and education of her children, and other family news. Of
note is an 1828 letter from her brother Joshua discussing the
sudden death of their brother Lewis Baker. Also of interest is a
letter Mary Ker wrote to Rev. John B. Warren of New Orleans in
1839 discussing the case of a Presbyterian minister charged with
preaching "improper doctrine."
Letters to Sarah Robinson, scattered between 1822 and 1839,
and those to David Hunt of Lexington, Ky., scattered between 1828
and 1857, as well as letters to miscellaneous others, discuss
mostly business and plantation affairs and family news.
Folder 8 1821-1822
9 1823-1824
10 1825-1827
11 1828
12 1829
13 1830-1831
14 1832
15 1833
16 1834
17 1835
18 1836
19 January-July 1837
20 August-December 1837
21 1838
22 1839
23 January-February 1840
24 March-December 1840
25 January 1841
26 February-December 1841
27 January-July 1842
28 August-December 1842
29 1843
30 1844
31 January-July 1845
32 August-December 1845
33 1846-1849
Subseries 1.1.3. 1850-1858
1850-1851, 1853-1856, 1858. About 70 items.
Chiefly letters received by Mary Kenard Baker from her
daughters Sarah Evelina Ker Butler and Mary Susan Ker. There are
also scattered letters from her sons John and David; her brother
Joshua Baker, Jr.; and other Baker, Nutt, Henderson, and Butler
relatives.
Sarah wrote frequently from Terrebonne Parish, La., giving
news of her plantation affairs and children, her travels, and her
Butler relations. Of note are letters, dated May 1850 and 10
July 1855, opposing her sister Lizzie's and her sister Mary
Susan's marriage plans. Mary Susan's letters, all written
between July and September 1855, describe a prolonged visit to
Brownson and other relatives in Kentucky and New York.
Letters from David and John discuss mostly their health,
travels, and conflicts over the settlement of their father's
estate. Other letters of interest are one in 1851 from Mrs. E.
M. Hart Baker describing a trip to New Orleans during Mardi Gras
and one in 1855 from Heloise de Mailly concerning Mary Susan's
education. A letter dated 25 February 1850 lists an inventory of
Mary Baker Ker's property.
Folder 34 1850
35 1851, 1853-1854
36 July-August 1855
37 September-October 1855
38 1856, 1858
Subseries 1.1.4. 1860-1899
About 50 items.
Mostly Mary Susan Ker's correspondence, 1860-1898, with family
and friends, and scattered letters of the William H. Ker family.
Many of the letters to Mary Susan are from her niece Mamie S.
Dunbar, who wrote from Marathon Plantation discussing her
children, and from her friends Ysobel Boyd and Lou Conner. There
are also letters from various other Butler and Ker relatives,
including Mary Susan's brother David, her brother-in-law Richard
Butler, and her brother Lewis B. Ker. Of note are an August 1867
letter from David expressing his views on her financial situation
and an 1899 letter from Lewis describing his life as a blacksmith
and carpenter at Ingleside. Many of the letters discuss beaus
and weddings, financial difficulties, children, and crops.
Several letters Mary Susan wrote in 1886 to friends describe a
trip she took to Germany, Italy, and France.
Seven letters belonging to the William H. Ker family discuss
the death of two of their children, 1888 and 1899; their daughter
Pamelia's life at school in Port Gibson, Miss., 1890 and 1897;
and her winning a scholarship to Stanton College in Natchez,
1899.
Folder 39 1860-1861, 1866-1869, 1877-1878
40 1880, 1884-1890, 1893-1894, 1897-1899
Subseries 1.1.5. Undated
About 35 items.
Scattered correspondence, mostly of John and Mary Baker Ker,
with a few letters of their sons John and David, their daughters,
Mary Susan and Sarah Evelina, and other relatives, including
Lewis Baker, Sarah Baker Metcalfe, Mamie S. Dunbar, and Albert
(Bertie) Dunbar. Most of the letters are from Stephen Duncan to
John Ker about business affairs and medicine. Topics in the
other letters are mostly business, family, and social affairs of
the Ker, Baker, and Dunbar families.
Folder 41
Subseries 1.2. Financial and Legal Papers
1776-1893 and undated. About 680 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Mostly antebellum papers of John Ker, his family, and his
Baker and other relatives, documenting plantation and household
finances and settlement of relatives' estates, with additional
postwar papers pertaining principally to the farming and personal
accounts of Ker's son William H. and his daughter Mary Susan Ker.
Included are estate papers of Everard Green, Lewis Baker, Anthony
Baker, Mary Boggs Ker, and Sarah Robinson. A few items pertain
to John and Sarah Ewing of Port Gibson, Miss., and Albert W.
Dunbar. There are only three Civil War items, and only scattered
items relate to Ker's involvement with the American Colonization
Society and other social projects.
Subseries 1.2.1. Antebellum
1776-1857. About 400 items.
Papers of John Ker, primarily plantation and household
accounts for Linden, his Natchez plantation, and for his
Franklin, La., plantations. Also included are records for
estates Ker administered, with scattered items of Baker
(especially Joshua and Isaac Baker) and other relatives.
Included are bills and receipts from dry goods and hardware
merchants, grocers, and livestock dealers; deeds and indentures;
and check stubs. There is also an 1840 "schedule of property"
for John Ker. Estate papers are for Everard Green, Lewis Baker,
and Anthony Baker, with a few items pertaining to Sarah Robinson
(including her will manumitting a slave) and Mary Boggs Ker.
Scattered items document John Ker's work with the American
Colonization Society, 1837, 1842, 1847-1848; the Natchez Orphan
Asylum, 1849; and Oakland College, 1837. One ledger, kept by
John and Sarah Ewing, lists accounts of groceries and dry goods
sold in Grand Gulf, Miss., and at unidentified locations, 1833-
1857; watch and clock repair work done in Port Gibson, Miss.,
1840-1845; and cotton picked and monies paid out, 1851 and 1855,
on an unidentified plantation.
Also included is a 1776 bill of lading for Messrs. Campbell
and Dunbar for foodstuffs shipped from Jamaica up the Mississippi
River.
Folder 42 1776, 1804-1807, 1814-1816, 1821, 1824, 1829
43 Estate of Everard Green, 1804-1805, 1812-1813,
1819, 1821, 1823-1824
44 1830, 1833-1834
45 Estate of Lewis Baker, 1834
46 Estate of Anthony Baker, 1828, 1834
47 1835-1837
48 1838
49 January 1839
50 February-December 1839
51 1840-1843, 1846-1847
52 1848
53 1849
54 1850
55 Ledger, John and Sarah Ewing, Port Gibson,
Miss., 1833, 1839-1845, 1850-1857
56 Ledger Enclosures, 1857
57 Undated, 1810s-1840s
Subseries 1.2.2. Civil War and Postwar
1862-1893 and undated. About 280 items.
Postwar papers, primarily plantation and personal accounts,
are of William H. Ker and Mary Susan Ker of Elba Plantation,
1866-1870. There are also several items relating to Albert W.
Dunbar and to other Ker family members. Other materials relating
to Mary Susan Ker include an 1861 bill from a Natchez grocer and
an 1887-1888 account book, documenting her expenditures on a trip
abroad to France, Italy, and England, and inventorying household
items found at the Vicksburg, Miss., plantation where she was a
governess in 1888.
Included in the materials relating to Albert Dunbar are a
plantation account book, 1858-1877, containing scattered property
and tax inventories and slave lists for Glenwood, Lake
Washington, Tensas, and Marathon plantations, as well as a copy
of a letter and deed related to the property of G. B. Shields.
There are also photocopies of Dunbar's Civil War pardon, 1866.
Additional items pertain to Mamie S. Ker and Pamelia Ker.
Folder 58 1862, 1865-1866
59 William H. Ker, Elba Plantation, 1866
60 Mary Susan Ker, 1866
61 William H. Ker and Mary Susan Ker, Elba
Plantation, 1867
62 Mary Susan Ker, 1867
63 William H. Ker, Elba Plantation, 1868
64 Mary Susan Ker, 1868-1869
65 William H. Ker, Elba Plantation, 1869-1870
66 Account Book, Albert W. Dunbar et al., 1858-
1864, 1866, 1869-1871, 1877
67 Account Book Enclosure, 1857
68 Marriage Certificate, Mamie S. Ker, 1878
69 Personal Account Book, Mary Susan Ker, 1887
70 Stock Certificate, Pamelia Ker, 1893
Subseries 1.3. Other Family Papers
1806-1898 and undated. About 160 items.
Arrangement: chronological by type.
Scattered items mostly documenting Ker family history, the
political career of John Ker, the education of his sons David and
John at Oakland College, the political interests and teaching
career of his son William H. in Port Gibson, and the family and
social activities of his daughters Sarah Evelina and Mary Susan.
Included are some short diaries; school essays; public addresses;
poems, drawings, and etchings; and political broadsides.
Items of note are an 1842 description of a doctor's treatment
of tetanus, the 1878 "Howard Association of New Orleans Rules for
Treatment of Yellow Fever," and a list by Mamie S. Ker entitled
"What I Can Remember having read before I was 10." There is
also an 1806 muster order of Ker's father-in-law Joshua Baker.
Folder 71 Political Broadside, John Ker, Concordia
Parish, Miss., 1830
72 Address before Whig Club by John Ker, 1840
73 Diary, Sarah Evelina Ker, 1841
74 School Essays and Orations, David Ker,
1842-1844
75 School Essays and Orations, David Ker,
ca. 1842-1844
76 Drawings and Engravings, 1855 and undated
77 School Compositions and Grade Reports,
Albert Dunbar, 1866-1871
78 Daily Diaries, Mary Susan Ker, 1881-1884
79 Genealogical Materials, 1884 and undated
80 Claiborne County, Miss., Election Materials,
1872-1873, 1876, 1879-1881, 1886,
and undated
81 Miscellaneous Items, 1806, 1860, 1878, 1880,
1887-1890, 1896, and undated
82 Poems and Other Writings, 1865-1866, 1896,
1898, and undated
83 Teaching/School Administration Records
(W. H. Ker), 1887-1889, 1893, 1897-1898,
and undated
Series 2. Twentieth-Century Papers
1881-1994 and undated. About 5350 items.
Arrangement: By type.
Personal, teaching, financial and legal, business, and other
papers of Mary Susan Ker, her grandnieces Tillie and Catharine
Dunbar, and other relatives. Also included are records kept by
Tillie and Catharine of the Natchez chapters of the Daughters of
the American Revolution and the National Society of the Colonial
Dames of America, of which they were officers.
Subseries 2.1. Individual Family Members
1881-1994 and undated. About 3940 items.
Personal, business, and other papers of Mary Susan Ker, Tillie
Dunbar, Catharine Dunbar Brown, and other relatives, including
Mary Dunbar Cocke, Mary Dunbar, Emily Dunbar, Sue Ker Hyams, Rene
Villere, and Josephine (Josie) Chamberlain Ker.
Subseries 2.1.1. Mary Susan Ker
1881-1923 and undated. About 1450 items.
Chiefly items related to Mary Susan's financial and legal
affairs and clippings she saved from newspapers. There are also
a significant amount of personal correspondence and scattered
teaching and other materials.
Subseries 2.1.1.1. Correspondence
1908-1923 and undated. About 340 items.
Letters received by Mary Susan, mostly from Tillie and
Catharine and from her sister-in-law Josie C. Ker. There are
also letters from other Ker, Dunbar, and Butler relatives and
from friends in New Orleans and Lake Providence, La., San
Antonio, Tex., Portland, Ore., Memphis, Tenn., and various
Mississippi locations. The bulk of the letters are from the
1920s and chiefly discuss family news. Three letters, ca. 1916-
1918, describing the English homefront during World War I, are
from Mary Susan's friend Ysobel Forrester in England. Other
letters of interest are one, dated 12 December 1912, from a
student of Mary Susan's, and two in 1915 from unidentified
sisters aboard the U.S.S. Rotterdam.
Folder 84 1908, 1910-1911
85 1912
86 1913
87 1914-1917
88 1918
89 1919-1920
90 January-September 1921
91 October-22 December 1921
92 23 December-30 December 1921
93 January-May 1922
94 October-December 1922
95 1923
96 Undated
Subseries 2.1.1.2. Financial and Legal Papers
1888-1920. About 210 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Mostly bills, receipts, and account books of household and
personal expenses. Also of interest are scattered estate papers,
1888-1914, for Mary Susan's brother Lewis B. Ker.
Folder 97 Bills and Receipts, 1900-1902
98 Bills and Receipts, 1903
99 Bills and Receipts, 1904
100 Bills and Receipts, 190?
101 Bank Book, 1904-1905
102 Estate of Lewis B. Ker, 1888-1897, 1899, 1901,
1903, 1906, 1914
103 Account Book, Household, 1919-1920
104 Account Book, Personal, 1920
Subseries 2.1.1.3. Clippings
1880s-1923 and undated. About 450 items.
Newspaper clippings, principally related to religious matters,
including missionary work in Africa, and to Mississippi history,
politics, and education. Folder 114 contains clippings of
wedding and death announcements and articles on family members'
activities.
Folder 105 1892, 1903, 1911
106 1912-1915
107 1916-1917
108 1918-1919
109-111 191?
112 1920-1923
113 ca. 1920-1923
114 Family, 1880s-1920s
Subseries 2.1.1.4. Teaching Materials
1898-1905 and undated. 26 items.
Chiefly papers and grade books for students Mary Susan taught
at Natchez Institute, 1898-1905. There are also a few undated
lesson plan books.
Folder 115 Student Papers, 1898
116 Student Papers, 1899 and 189?
117 Grade Book, Natchez Institute, 1899-1900
and undated
118 Grade Book, Natchez Institute, 1904-1905
(S-4656/1)
119 Student Papers, 1905 and undated
120 Lesson Books, undated
Subseries 2.1.1.5. Other Papers and Volumes
1897-1922 and undated. 26 items.
Scattered items, including an address book and recipe book for
Mary Susan, and a book of meeting minutes for the Natchez Chapter
of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Miscellaneous items
include poems; materials related to Flora McDonald College in Red
Springs, N.C.; and a few loose diary entries.
Folder 121 Address Books, 1906-1916 and 1916-1917
122 Natchez Classified and Business Directory,
192?
123 Book of Minutes, D.A.R., Natchez Chapter,
1897-1899, 1903-1905
124 The High School Dial, Short Story Ed., 1913
125 Miscellaneous Items, 1902, 1916, 1921-1922,
and undated
126 Recipe Book, undated
Subseries 2.1.2. Matilda Ralston (Tillie) Dunbar
1894-1969 and undated. About 1420 items.
Personal correspondence, business papers, and other materials
of Tillie Dunbar of Natchez and Fayette, Miss. There are also
scattered personal letters of her employer Judge Jeff Truly, and
business items related to the bank he operated in Fayette (where
she worked). Included are letters of Ker family relatives;
correspondence and other business items documenting Tillie's
personal and household finances, the settlement of the estates of
Emily Dunbar and Catharine Dunbar Brown, and the affairs of Mary
Duncan, an employee of Catharine's; and miscellaneous items
relating to Tillie's club memberships and social activities.
Subseries 2.1.2.1. Correspondence
1906-1969 and undated. About 540 items.
Chiefly personal letters received from Ker, Dunbar, Butler,
Pearl, and Cocke relatives, with scattered items from friends.
Most early letters are from Mary Susan Ker, 1906-1923, and
Tillie's beau Butler Reber, 1919-1920, who wrote often from
Natchez after Tillie moved to Fayette. Scattered early letters
also appear from Catharine Dunbar and from various relatives,
including Genevieve, Josie Ker, Laura Butler, and Lizzie Cade.
Frequent topics of discussion are family health, finances,
travels, and social activities and local events and acquaintances
in Natchez. In 1937, there are letters from Catharine while she
was being treated for liver problems in San Antonio, Tex.
Beginning in the 1930s, a significant number of letters are from
Mary Dunbar Cocke in Memphis, Tenn., and from Laura Butler. Many
later letters from friends concern Tillie's organizational
activities. A few, 1961-1962, discuss Catharine's death and the
settlement of her estate. Undated letters are mostly from the
later period.
Folder 127 1906-1907, 1914, 1916-1917
128 1919
129 1920
130 1921-1922
131 1923, 1926-1927
132 1928-1929
133 ca. 1918-1920s
134 1932, 1934-1937
135 1938-1939
136 1940-1941
137 1942-1943
138 1944
139 1945
140 1946-1948
141 1949
142 1950
143 1951-1952
144 1953-1954, 1956-1957
145 1960-1961
146 1962-1966
147 1967
148 1968
149 1969
150-152 Undated
Subseries 2.1.2.2. Business Papers
1895-1966. About 700 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Papers documenting the work and financial life of Tillie
Dunbar and that of her employer Judge Jeff Truly. Items related
to Tillie's finances and employment include checkbooks, bills and
receipts for personal and household accounts, tax returns, and
records of insurance she sold. Items for Jeff Truly include
contracts, deeds, business and personal correspondence, bank
accounts, advertisements and public relations materials for the
Jefferson County Bank, and clippings on the banking industry.
Much of Truly's personal correspondence concerns his genealogical
interests. A few items in both Tillie's and Truly's papers
relate to the finances of Mary Duncan and, in 1946, her ward
Rebecca Hawkins. There are also estate papers for Emily Dunbar
and Catharine.
Folder 153 1895, 1899, 1902, 1906, 1908, 1912-1914
154 1915
155 Stenographer's Notebook, 1915
156 1916
157 1917-1918, 1920
158 1921-1923, 1925-1927
159 Tax Returns, 1924-1928
160 1928-1931
161 1932-1933
162 1934
163 1935
164 Tax Returns, 1930-1935
165 Stenographer's Notebook, 1935-1936
166 1936-1937
167 1938-1939
168-169 1920s-1930s
170 Account Book, 1940
171 1940-1941
172 1942
173 1943
174 Insurance Account Book, 1940-1944
175-176 1944
177 Correspondence, Jeff Truly, 1939-1944
178 1945
179 Checkbook, 1944-1946
180 Correspondence, Jeff Truly, 1945-1946
181 1946
182 Insurance Accounts, 1930-1947
183 1947-1949
184 1940s
185 Tax Returns, 1936-1953
186 1950-1955
187 Estate Papers of Emily Dunbar, 1957
188 1956-1959
189 1950s
190 Account Book, 1939-1960 (with enclosures)
191 Estate of Catharine Dunbar Brown, 1960-1963
192 1961-1966
Subseries 2.1.2.3. Other Papers
1894-1956 and undated. About 180 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Personal files Tillie maintained on clubs and organizations to
which she belonged, including the Business Women's Circle, the
Natchez Historical Society, the Pilgrimage Garden Club, and the
Colonial Dames of America. Also included are scattered personal
items, including a postcard album, newspaper clippings, address
books, recipes, poems, and pamphlets, and a few items relating to
Ker family history. Of interest in the printed materials is a
June 1921 issue of the magazine "Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang."
Folder 193 Address Book, 1939
194 Address Book, 1951
195 Business Women's Circle
196 Clippings, 1928-1965
197 Family History
198 First Presbyterian Church, Natchez
199 Miscellaneous
200 Natchez Historical Society
201 National Society of the Colonial Dames of
America
202 Pilgrimage Garden Club
203 Postal Souvenirs Album
204 Postal Souvenirs Album Enclosures, 1905-1915
and undated
205 Printed Materials, 1910s-1920s
206 Printed Materials, 1930s-1940s
207 Printed Materials, 1950-1951
208 Printed Materials, 1952-1956
209 Recipes
210 Webster's Dictionary, 1894 (with notes,
1920s-1930s)
Subseries 2.1.3. Catharine Shields Dunbar Brown
1893-1959 and undated. About 900 items.
Personal correspondence, business, teaching, and other papers
of Catharine Dunbar Brown. Included are letters exchanged with
Ker and Dunbar relatives; financial and legal papers documenting
her personal and household finances, her management of the
business affairs of Alice Jenkins, Roberta Turpin, Mary Dunbar,
and others, and management of her Natchez book and curio shop (Ye
Olde Booke Shoppe); roll books, lesson plans, and other materials
she used as a teacher at Natchez Institute; and miscellaneous
items, including postcard albums, a photo album (PA-4656/1), a
diary, and writings on Prohibition.
Subseries 2.1.3.1. Correspondence
1905-1959 and undated. About 240 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Scattered letters received mostly from Dunbar and Ker
relatives and friends. Frequent correspondents include Percy and
Lulie Dunbar in San Antonio, Tillie, and David Ker. There are
also scattered letters from Katharine Ker, Laura Butler, and
others. Letters discuss mostly family news. A number of items
in 1916 concern the dedication of a monument by the D.A.R. to
Revolutionary War General John Willis. Many of the later letters
are addressed to Catharine and "Doc," Catharine's husband
Frederick Brown. These are mostly from their friends, many of
whom shared Catharine's interest in genealogy and Natchez
history.
Folder 211 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1913-1914
212 1915
213 1916 and 1910s
214 1923-1926
215 1928-1933
216 1937 and 1930s
217 1944-1945
218 1946
219 1947-1948
220 1949
221 1950-1959
222 Undated
Subseries 2.1.3.2. Business Papers
1911-1953 and undated. About 600 items.
Arrangement: by type.
One chronological and two alphabetical files maintained by
Catharine documenting her household, business, and social
affairs. The chronological file, 1911-1953, contains
correspondence, bills and receipts, deeds, wills, account books,
a telephone/address book, and clippings relating chiefly to
properties Catharine owned, her household expenses, and
individuals whose financial affairs she managed, including Alice
Jenkins, 1927-1929, and Roberta Turpin, 1933-1934.
The first alphabetical file, 1922-1938, chiefly contains items
related to Catharine's business affairs, with additional
materials similar to those in the chronological file, including
correspondence about the finances of Alice Jenkins and Mary
Duncan. The second alphabetical file, 1931-1935, chiefly
contains correspondence concerning books and antiques to be sold
at Ye Olde Booke Shoppe. There are also four other folders
containing accounts, receipts, financial statements, and
miscellaneous items relating to Ye Olde Booke Shoppe.
Folder 223 Business Papers, 1911-1912, 1915-1917, 1920
224 Business Papers, 1923, 1925-1929
225 Household Account Book, 1919-1934
226 Household Account Book Enclosures,
1930-1938
227 Business Papers, 1931-1935, 1939
228 Telephone/Address Book, 1947
229 Business Papers, 1942, 1944, 1949, 1951-1953
230 Business Papers, undated
231 Business Files, General, A-C
232 Business Files, General, D
233 Business Files, General, E-F
234 Business Files, General, G
235 Business Files, General, H-J
236 Business Files, K-O
237 Business Files, P-W
238 Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, A
239 Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, B
240 Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, C
241 Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, D
242 Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, E-F
243 Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, G
244 Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, H-J
245 Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, K-L
246 Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, M-N
247 Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, Q-S
248 Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, T-U
249 Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, V-W, Y
250-253 Ye Olde Booke Shoppe
Subseries 2.1.3.3. Teaching Materials
1893-1914 and undated. 41 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Teaching materials, including lesson plans, roll books, and
miscellaneous student papers kept by Catharine from her tenure at
the Natchez Institute, along with class notes she took as a
student at the University of Mississippi and texts she used for
teaching Sunday School.
Folder 254 College Class Notes
255-256 Lesson Plans
257-258 Lesson Plans and Roll Books
259 "Limericks of Class A, 1913-1914"
and Other Student Items
260 Miscellaneous
261 Sunday School Texts
Subseries 2.1.3.4. Other Papers
1906-1955 and undated. 19 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Two albums of early 20th-century postcards, many with
messages; a photo album containing mostly photographs of the
Dunbar and Ker families; clippings about and a paper Catharine
wrote on Prohibition; a household inventory book with scattered
entries; and a diary with short entries describing daily events,
1951-1955.
Folder 262 Postcard Album, ca. 1906-1910
263 Postcard Album, ca. 1906-1913
264 Photo Album, 1915 (PA-4656/1)
265 Prohibition, 1915, 1917, and undated
266 Household Inventory Book, 1935-1936
267 Diary, 1951-1955
Series 2.1.4. Other Family Members
1892-1994. About 170 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Scattered items of Ker, Dunbar, and other relatives. Included
are letters received by Mary Dunbar Cocke from Bill and Patsy
Watson of Jacksonville, Fla.; receipts, deposit lists, personal
property inventories, and an account book of Mary Dunbar; an
account book and miscellaneous items belonging to Emily Dunbar of
Pomfret, Conn.; scattered papers of Sue Ker Hyams, including
clippings, correspondence, and newsletters chiefly relating to
the First Presbyterian Church in Natchez; letters and financial
items of Josie C. Ker; and a pharmacist's account book belonging
to Rene Villere of New Orleans. (See also Series 2.1.2.2 for
other items of Emily Dunbar.)
Folder 268 Mary Cocke (Mrs. Albert O.), 1962-1964
269 Mary Cocke (Mrs. Albert O.), 1965-1966
270 Emily Dunbar, Account Book, 1913-1923
271 Emily Dunbar, 1951 and undated
272 Mrs. Mary Dunbar, 1892, 1915, and undated
273-275 Sue Ker Hyams
276 Josephine Chamberlain (Mrs. W. H.) Ker
277 Rene Louis Villere, Account Book, 1927-1934
278 Account Book Enclosures, 1932-1934
279 Unidentified
Subseries 2.2. Organizational Records
1924-1968 and undated. About 1410 items.
Arrangement: by organization.
Files and account books maintained by Catharine Dunbar Brown
and Tillie Ralston Dunbar documenting the Natchez Chapters of the
D.A.R. and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
Included are letters; financial, legal, and other organizational
records; and guide service accounts for Rosalie and Evansview,
antebellum houses owned by the organizations.
Subseries 2.2.1. Daughters of the American Revolution
1924-1968 and undated. About 960 items.
Arrangement: by type.
Correspondence, general files, and account books maintained by
Catharine Dunbar Brown in her capacity as treasurer and regent of
the Natchez Chapter of the D.A.R. and curator of Rosalie, the
antebellum home restored and opened to tourists by the Chapter.
Subseries 2.2.1.1. General Files
1924-1968 and undated. About 550 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Chronological files, mostly 1940s, containing correspondence;
meeting materials, including agendas and programs; legal papers
concerning the acquisition of Rosalie; clippings; membership
lists; resolutions; by-laws; financial records; and scattered
D.A.R. publications.
Folder 280 1924-1925, 1928
281 1936-1939
282 1940-June 1943
283 November 1943-1945
284 1946
285 January-April 1947
286 May-October 1947
287 November-December 1947
288 January-March 1948
289 April-October 1948
290 November-December 1948
291 January-June 1949
292 July-December 1949
293 1950
294 1951-1954
295 1955, 1957-1959
296 1960-1964, 1966, 1968
297 Undated, 1940s
298 Undated, 1950s
299-300 Undated
Subseries 2.2.1.2. Alphabetical File
1939-1945. About 360 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Alphabetical correspondence file of Catharine Dunbar Brown
with fellow D.A.R. officers and others. Letters chiefly discuss
Rosalie, organizational finances and business, conferences,
membership, and the Natchez Pilgrimage.
Folder 301 A
302 B
303 C
304 D
305 E-F
306 Gardi-Gardn
307 Garr-Gu
308 Ha-Ho
309 Hu-J
310 K-M
311 N
312 O
313 P-Q
314 R
315 S
316 T-V
317 W
318 X-Z
Subseries 2.2.1.3. Rosalie
1948-1968. About 50 items.
Accounts of visitors to and expenditures for the decoration
and repair of Rosalie.
Folder 319 Rosalie Guide Service Account, 1948-1950
320 Enclosures, 1948-1950 Guide Service Account
321 Rosalie Guide Service Account, 1950-1954
322 Enclosures, 1950-1954 Guide Service Account
323 Curator Year Book, 1958
324 Enclosures, 1958 Curator Year Book
325 Rosalie Guide Service Account, 1955-1968
326 Enclosures, 1955-1968 Guide Service Account
Subseries 2.2.2. Colonial Dames of America
1941-1967 and undated. About 450 items.
Arrangement: by type.
Correspondence, office files, and visitors' calendars
maintained by Catharine Dunbar Brown and Tillie Ralston Dunbar
for the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
Calendars contain accounts for Evansview.
Subseries 2.2.2.1. Correspondence
1941-1967 and undated. About 240 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence files maintained by Catharine and, after
Catharine's death in 1960, by Tillie, concerning the activities
of the Natchez Chapter of the National Society of the Colonial
Dames of America. Letters scattered through the 1940s and 1950s
are addressed to Tillie. They chiefly discuss her role as chair
of the Historic Activities Committee. A few committee reports
and other miscellaneous items are interspersed with the
correspondence.
Folder 327 1941, 1943, 1946-1948
328 1950-1954
329 1955-1959
330 1960-October 1961
331 1-12 November 1961
332 13-30 November 1961
333 December 1961-1962
334 1963
335 1964
336 1965-1967
337 Undated
Subseries 2.2.2.2. Evansview
1962-1966. 10 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Calendar of visitors to and expenditures for Evansview
(formerly Bontura), the Natchez, Miss., antebellum home owned by
and opened to tourists by the Colonial Dames.
Folder 338 Evansview Calendar, 1962-1964
339 Enclosures, 1962-1964 Evansview Calendar
340 Evansview Calendar, 1964-1966
341 Enclosures, 1964-1966 Evansview Calendar
Subseries 2.2.2.3. Other Material
1945-1967 and undated. About 200 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Meeting materials, including minutes, agendas, and programs;
financial records; membership lists; by-laws; scattered
publications; clippings; and resolutions of the Natchez Chapter
of the Colonial Dames. Most of the materials, 1966-1967, are
financial records for Evansview.
Folder 342 1945-1949
343 1950-1959
344 1960-1962
345 1963
346 1964
347 1965
348 1966-1967
349 Undated
Series 3. Pictures
1875-1951 and undated. About 220 items.
Arrangement: chronological by type.
Mostly 19th-century portraits, including many childhood
portraits, and other photographs of Ker, Dunbar, Butler,
Forrester, Metcalfe, Choppin, Cade, Boyd, and other family
members. There are also photographs of sports teams, school
classes, and other group portraits, and photographs of scenes in
and around Natchez, Miss., and abroad. None are in color.
Unless otherwise noted, pictures are from the late 19th or early
20th century.
Included are four tintypes (SF-4656/1-4), and several
colorized photos (P-4656/Folder 28). An album of photos (PA-
4656/1) of family and friends compiled by Catharine Dunbar and
two albums of postcards (folders 256-257), many bearing pictures,
are filed in Series 2.1.3.4. Two additional postcard albums are
filed in Series 2.1.2.3 (folders 195-196).
P-4656/Folder 1 Twelve portraits, 1875-1889. Individuals
are Heloise de Mailly Reighley, Nellie
Dunbar, Albert W. Dunbar, Adrienne and
Paquette Forrester, Mamie and Nellie
Dunbar, Tillie Dunbar, Annie Metcalfe,
Ulrich von der Becke, and E. L. Dudley.
P-4656/Folder 2 Three portraits, 1893-1898, of Elizabeth
Garth, Alberta and Jennie McGalliard, and
Mary Jenkins, and nine photographs of men
and women playing tennis and golf at the
Dumbarton Club in 1900.
P-4656/Folder 3 Four portraits, 1902-1904, of James P.
Butler, Jr., Josephine Davis, Mary [?],
and Margaret Butler; two photographs of
Edward Jacob McLovick, Jr., 1910, one of
which was taken with an African-American
nurse; one photograph of an unidentified
woman in a nurse's uniform, 1931; one
photograph of Eugenie [?], 1938, and one
of her holding her daughter Mary Rebecca,
1945; two photographs of Patricia "Patsy"
Moore, 1939 and 1941; and one photograph
of Lucy Carolyn Shephard, 1939.
P-4656/Folder 4 Ten snapshots of Kathleen [?], Catharine
Dunbar's African-American maid, and an
unidentified man in Catharine's back yard,
1940; six snapshots of Thelma Truly Brown,
Catharine's neighbor, 1940; two snapshots
of an unidentified African-American woman
with Catharine's dog Sheba, 1950; 13
snapshots of Sheba, 1940-1941 and 1949-
1950; one photograph of Barbara Allen
Field, 1951; one photograph of John [?]
and two other boys, 1950; and two mid-20th
century photographs of unidentified
individuals.
P-4656/Folder 5 Eight portraits, late 19th century,
including four of James P. Butler and one
each of Mamie F. Butler, Sarah Duncan
Butler, Mrs. Chapman, and Dr. Choppin.
P-4656/Folder 6 Six portraits, late 19th century,
including Minna Blake, James P. Butler,
Jr., Richard Butler, Dick Jones, Henry
Green, and Mrs. Owen with her son Archie.
P-4656/Folder 7 Eight portraits, late 19th century, of E.
L. Dudley, Rose Choppin, Joseph B.
Stratton, Frank Reid, Etta Killingsworth,
Dr. McPheters, Charles Taylor Cade, and
Daniel Douglass, and one undated
photograph of Mrs. Le Blanc, Mrs. Harrell,
and Mrs. Cade "on the Pavillion on the
beach at High Island."
P-4656/Folder 8 Seven portraits, late 19th century, of
Annie Calvert Jones, Amelie L. Ellis,
Maria Shields, Lizzie Rotelot, Anna
Martin, Mary McClure, and Algernon
Dougherty, and one tintype (SF-P-4656/1)
of Charley Adams standing and an
unidentified man sitting.
P-4656/Folder 9 Six portraits, late 19th century,
including three portraits of Algernon
Dougherty, one of Mamie Butler, one of
Sarah and Richard Butler, one of an
unidentified man, and two undated late
19th or early 20th century photographs,
one of "Mrs. Harrison in the parlor at
Laurel Hill" and one of Mr. Ives and Mr.
Bardager in front of the "hotel at High
Island."
P-4656/Folder 10 Ten portraits, late 19th century,
including two of Mrs. David Ker and single
portraits of Marie Watkins, Heloise De
Mailly Reighley, David Ker, William B.
Ker, Bettie Cade, Hanna and Bettie Cade,
Charles Cade, and Robert Cade. Also one
colorized undated photograph of a painting
of Rose Choppin.
P-4656/Folder 11 Eight portraits of Mattie Lou Lyne, J. M.
Gleeson, Amelia Choppin, Jimmie [?],
William Offley Forrester, Robert Southgate
Boyd, Kilty Cade, and Richard Butler, and
two negatives of portraits of Richard
Butler.
P-4656/Folder 12 Nine portraits of Martin Magruder, Alice
(Allie) Jenkins, Emily Dunbar, Lettie and
Loulie [Ker?], Louise Taylor, Morgan and
Maseisse Johnson, Elizabeth Reid with her
grandson, W. A. Killingsworth, and Annie
M. Knight.
P-4656/Folder 13 Eight portraits of Leolon Carpenter and
sister, Ethel Nyly, Adrienne Forrester,
Paquette Forrester, Charles Joseph Nyly,
Bertie Dunbar, and Georgie Dunbar; one
undated photograph of Margot Butler
outside "The Cottage" with her dogs; and
four undated miniature photographs of two
unidentified young women.
P-4656/Folder 14 Twenty-six portraits including two
portraits of Heloise de Mailly and single
portraits of Lorenius [?], the Martin
children, George E. Chamberlain, Bertie
Dunbar, Ysobel Forrester, W. R. Kent, Lt.
Boseman, E. L. Dudley, Mamie S. [?], Katie
Foster, Marie de M. Watkins and her son
George, Mary Ker, Hal Minor, Richard A.
Kent, Mira V. Blake, Isoline Bodd, Charley
Adams, Ysobel Forrester and her daughter
Paquette, Empress Eugenie of France,
Paquette Forrester, Harry M. Dudley, Rose
Choppin, Rev. Mr. Watkins, and an
unidentified child.
P-4656/Folder 15 Twelve unidentified portraits; one strip
of four photographs of an unidentified
young woman; a portrait of an African-
American woman; and a photograph of a man
and woman playing board games.
P-4656/Folder 16 Photograph of a painting of a man and boy
looking out a window, 1887; ten undated
portraits of unidentified individuals; an
undated photograph of an unidentified man
and two young girls standing on a rock
formation; and two tintypes, one of two
unidentified men (SF-P-4656/2) and one of
an unidentified woman (SF-P-4656/3).
P-4656/Folder 17 Fourteen portraits, 1902 and undated, of
unidentified individuals and one undated
portrait of Tammie [?].
P-4656/Folder 18 Ten portraits of unidentified individuals;
five snapshots of unidentified women,
dressed in ball gowns; two snapshots of
unidentified women standing next to a car;
and two snapshots of unidentified women.
P-4656/Folder 19 One group portrait, 1947, of members of
the D.A.R. at Rosalie and one similar
group portrait, 1949; one undated snapshot
of a nursing class labelled "Dr. G.;"
eleven snapshots, 1941-1942, 1958 and
undated, of unidentified individuals; and
three photographs of unidentified women,
one sitting at a spinning wheel, one
standing in front of Ye Olde Booke Shop,
and one squatting next to a basket of
peanuts. Also one large photograph of
young girls dressed in ball gowns, 1958.
P-4656/Folder 20 Six photographs, including two of Hannah
Rice, Mary Susan Ker, and Mrs. Milner at
Louise Butler's house in Waukesha, Wisc.,
1909; two of football teams from A. & M.
in Starksville, Miss., 1896 and undated;
one of the "Fourth Grades, Natchez
Institute, undated; and one of a grade
school class which included Walter McCrea,
Joseph Murphy, Charles Byrnes, Jack
McCrea, Lanneau Baker, Edward Delanry,
Butler Reber, and Bertie Dunbar, undated;
one undated portrait of the Robert Portis
Hyams family, including Mrs. Hyams, Robert
Jr., and Eleanor May Hyams; and two
unidentified family portraits, possibly of
the children of Mamie S. Dunbar, undated.
P-4656/Folder 21 Twelve portraits, late 19th century, of
individual members of the Foster and Pearl
families.
P-4656/Folder 22 Six portraits, late 19th century, of
individual members of the family of Frank
Reid.
P-4656/Folder 23 Five unidentified photographs of groups,
including one of a group of men and women
at "Hot Springs," one of a group of
African-American and white workers in
front of a brick building, one class
picture, and two of young men and women
together in the countryside, and two
unidentified family portraits.
P-4656/Folder 24 Five unidentified class pictures, possibly
from the Natchez Institute, early 20th
century, and a photograph of a boat parked
in front of Baker & McDowell Hardware,
undated.
P-4656/Folder 25 Two nursing class pictures, undated, one
unidentified and the other containing
Reginia Lillia, Daisy Briggs, Maggie
Briggs, Mrs. Jemison, Helen Tracy, Julia
Britt, and Lecetta Britt; one photograph
of four unidentified women in a horse-
drawn buggy, undated; one undated
photograph of three unidentified girls;
and one photograph of a group of
unidentified bathers at Culvers Lake,
N.J., 1916.
P-4656/Folder 26 Nine photographs of Louise Butler's house
in Waukesha, Wisc., 1909; three undated
photographs of the "Hall at Arlington";
one photograph of the interior and one of
the exterior of Laurel Hill, undated; one
postcard photograph of "Byde-A-Whyle" in
Farmington, Conn.; and two photographs of
the villa in Baden-Baden, Germany, that
Amelia Choppin occupied in the late 1880s.
P-4656/Folder 27 Two photographs of "The Cottage" and its
grounds, undated; three photographs of the
interior of 233 West 77th St., N.Y.; one
photograph of "Camp Stop a While" in
Culvers Lake, N.J., 1916; four
photographs, 1880s, of bridges and tunnels
in Switzerland; and one snapshot, 1940, of
the Mississippi River covered in ice.
P-4656/Folder 28 Eleven photographs of unidentified houses
and landscape scenes, probably near
Natchez, Miss., and three colorized
photographs of Asian landscape scenes,
1940 and undated.
P-4656/Folder 29 Six photographs of students, teachers, and
a groundsman at Stanton College.
P-4656/Folder 30 Four photographs and a tintype, 1880s-
1890s, sent to Mary Susan Ker by Algernon
Dougherty, including one of "Shore Lodge"
at Parkstons on Lea, one of the Blue
Grotto in Capri, a sheet of photos of
religious art, one photograph of a
religious painting of Monsignore
Straniers, and a tintype is of an
unidentified woman sitting in a chair (SF-
P-4656/2)
ADDITION OF NOVEMBER 1996 (Acc. 96076, 96175)
Size: About 1200 items (10.5 linear ft.).
Date Span: 1803-1996.
Provenance: Received from Sue Percy Ker Hyams in June and November 1996.
Access: No restrictions.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their
descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Overview
This addition contains mostly family and social letters to
members of the Ker and Dunbar families, especially John Ker, Mary
S. Ker, Matilda (Tillie) Ralston Dunbar, Catherine Dunbar Brown,
and Sue Percy Ker Hyams. There is also some financial and legal
material produced by the Dunbar and Ker families, including
wills, deeds of land sale, bills and receipts, stock
certificates, and personal and business account books. There are
many applications to genealogical organizations such as the
Daughters of the American Revolution and the Colonial Dames,
along with materials documenting family history and
qualifications for joining these organizations. Tillie Dunbar
and Catherine Dunbar Brown were both very active in the D.A.R.
and Colonial Dames, and this addition includes much material
related to the organizations’ administration and activities.
Other material in this addition includes many invitations and
programs from New Orleans Mardi Gras balls sent mainly to Sue
Percy Ker Hyams, schoolwork done by members of the Ker and Dunbar
families, and scrapbooks and commonplace books kept by various
family members in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Much of this material is very similar to the papers in Series 1
and 2 of the collection. For most topics, researchers should
look in those series as well as in the addition.
The addition is arranged as follows:
Series 4. Letters
Series 5. Financial and Legal Material
Series 6. Genealogical Organizations and Related Material
Series 7. Schoolwork, Teaching, and Related Material
Series 8. Mardi Gras
Series 9. Miscellaneous Material
Series 10. Pictures
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series 4. Letters
1803-1996. 600 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Personal and business letters of members of the Ker, Dunbar,
and Hyams families. The letters from 1803 through the 1860s are
mainly to John Ker. Letters of particular interest include that
of 1803 to Jonathan Dayton, which discusses the imminent transfer
of New Orleans to the United States and predicts that it will
become one of the nation’s most important ports. There is an
1831 letter to John Ker from Mr. Thomas of Alexandria discussing
the desirability of getting the free blacks out of the United
States. A letter of 26 May 1850 mentions the writer, Adam
Kleffort’s, fears of persecution by doctors and their "mesmeric
thought stealing." There is also a letter to John Ker from
General John Quitman. There are also many letters to Mary S.
Ker.
From 1894 through the 1950s, the majority of the letters are
to Matilda (Tillie) Ralston Dunbar and her sister Catherine
Dunbar Brown. Correspondents include Tillie and Catherine
Dunbar, their sister Mary and brother Albert, their Aunts Mamie
and Josie Ker, and relatives Laura and Pierce Butler. Letters
mainly discuss family news. In the 1950s through the 1990s, most
of the letters are addressed to Sue Percy Ker Hyams, but there
continue to be many letters to and from Tillie Dunbar and
Catherine Dunbar Brown. These later letters discuss family and
social news, Daughters of the American Revolution business,
Robert P. Hyams’s barge and towing business, the bankruptcy of
Pierce Butler in the 1930s, and Sue Percy Ker Hyams’s work in
historic preservation.
See also Series 1 and Series 2.
Folder 350 1803, 1804
351 1821, 1829
352 1830s
353 1840s
354 1850s
355 1860s
356 1870s
357 1887
358 1891, 1894
359 1895
360 1896
361 1897
362 1898
363 1899
364 1900-1903
365 1904
366 January-July 1905
367 August-September 1905
368 October-December 1905
369 January-July 1906
370 August-October 1906
371 November-December 1906
372 January-April 1907
373 May-September 1907
374 October-December 1907
375 January-June 1908
376 July-December 1908
377 Postcards 1908
378 January-June 1909
379 July 1909
380 August-December 1909
381 Postcards 1909
382 January-July 1910
383 August 1910
384 September-December 1910
385 Postcards 1910
386 January-May 1911
387 June-September 1911
388 October-December 1911
389 Postcards 1911
390 January-April 1912
391 May-July 1912
392 August 1912
393 September-December 1912
394 Postcards 1912
395 January-June 1913
396 July-August 1913
397 September-December 1913
398 January-April 1914
399 May-June 1914
400 July 1914
401 August-December 1914
402 January-May 1915
403 June-December 1915
404 February-July 1916
405 August-December 1916
406 January-May 1917
407 June-August 1917
408 September-December 1917
409 January-May 1918
410 June-December 1918
411 1919
412 1920
413 1921
414 January-June 1922
415 July-December 1922
416 January-March 1923
417 April-December 1923
418 1924
419 1925
420 1926
421 1927-1928, 1930
422 1931
423 1932
424 1933
425 1934
426 1935
427 1936
428 1937
429 1938
430 1939
431 1940
432 1941
433 1942-1943
434 1944
435 1945-1946
436 1947
437 1948
438 1949
439 1950
440 1951
441 1952
442 1953
443 1954
444 1955
445 1956
446 1957
447 1958
448 1959
449 1960
450 1961
451 1962
452 1964
453 1965
454 1966
455 1967
456 1968
457 1969
458 1970
459 1971
460 1972
461 1973
462 1974
463 1975
464 1976
465 1977
466 1978
467 1979
468 1980
469 1981
470 1982
471 1983
472 1984
473 1985
474 1986
475 1987-1989
476 1990-1992
477 1993-1994, 1996
478 Undated, to Mary Ker
479 Undated, to Catharine Dunbar Brown
480-481 Undated, to Tillie Dunbar
482 Undated, to Sue Percy Ker Hyams
483 Undated, other
484 Undated, invitations, etc.
485-486 Christmas cards
487 Calling cards and Christmas cards
Series 5. Financial and Legal Material
1839-1991. 100 items.
Arrangement: by type of material.
Contains various financial and legal records of the Ker,
Dunbar, and related families. The nineteenth-century legal
material includes, among other documents, wills of Margaret
Dunlop and Helen and Annette Smith, deeds of conveyance for land;
nineteenth-century bills and receipts mainly of Mary S. Ker, with
a few of John Ker and others. Twentieth-century legal material
includes wills of Tillie Dunbar, powers of attorney, deeds of
conveyance for land, and others. Other financial material in the
series includes various documents and notes related to settling
the estate of Tillie Dunbar, and many bank and account books kept
by Emily Dunbar, Tillie Dunbar, Catherine Dunbar Brown, Dr.
Ambrose Storck, and Sue Percy Ker Hyams (to whom the records of
fabric purchased probably belonged.) There are also stock
certificates, mainly for individual boats run by Robert P. Hyams
barge and towing business, which were received in mostly blank
books of stock certificates.
See also financial and legal papers in Series 1 and Series 2.
Folder 488 19th-century Legal Material
489 19th-century Bills and Receipts
490-491 20th-century Legal Material
492 20th-century Bills and Receipts
493 Stock Certificates
494 Estate of Tillie Dunbar
495 Miscellaneous Financial Records
496 Tillie Dunbar’s Bank Book, 1902-1908
497 Grocery Account Book, 1903
498 Dr. Ambrose Storck’s Ledger, 1915-1917
499 Account Book, 1922-1936
500 "The Hobby Shop" book, 1923-1936
501 Bank and Account Books of Emily Dunbar, 1924-1948
502 Account Book, 1928-1954
503 Catherine D. Brown’s Account Book, 1931-1954
504 "Record of Sales" Book, 1936-1937
505 Fabric Order Book, 1950
506 Account Book, Stocks Book, 1956-1969
Series 6. Genealogical Organizations and Related Material
1905-1994. 200 items.
Arrangement: by organization and subject
Various materials related to the genealogical research done by
many members of the Ker and Dunbar families, especially Tillie
and Catherine Dunbar and Sue Percy Ker Hyams, including their
documentation of lines of descent to gain membership in such
organizations as the Daughters of the American Revolution, the
Colonial Dames, and many others. Because the genealogical
research these women did for their own interest, for
qualification to join the genealogical organizations, and the
activities of those organizations are all so closely related,
they are combined in this series. There are many letters in the
Letters series which relate to their genealogical research as
well. This series includes administrative information produced
by the D.A.R. and the Colonial Dames, in which both Tillie and
Catherine Dunbar held office, and especially material related to
the management of the historic Natchez houses, "Rosalie,"
"Evansview" and "Bontura," restored and opened to the public by
these organizations. The other genealogical organizations to
which Sue Percy Ker Hyams and her family applied for membership
include the Order of the First Families of Mississippi, The
Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, the Society of
the Cincinnati of the State of South Carolina, and many others.
Material for these other societies consists mainly of application
forms showing the appropriate descent.
Other papers related to the D.A.R. and the Colonial Dames may
be found in Series 2.2.
Folder 507-508 Daughters of the American Revolution-general material
509 D.A.R.-"Rosalie"
510 D.A.R.-Booklets
511 D.A.R.-"Secretary’s Book," 1905-1916
512 D.A.R.-"Secretary’s Book," 1916-1917
513 Colonial Dames-General material
514 Colonial Dames-Booklets
515 Colonial Dames-"Evansview"
516 Colonial Dames-"Bontura"
517-518 Colonial Dames-Portrait Lists
519 Other Genealogical Organizations
520-523 Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes
Series 7. Schoolwork, Teaching and Related Materials
1865-1950s. 100 items.
Arrangement: by originator of materials and type of materials, roughly chronological
School assignments, notebooks, and report cards of Tillie and
Catherine Dunbar produced mainly in the early twentieth century.
Also includes Tillie Dunbar’s books and assignments from The
George H. Powell System of Advertising Instruction correspondence
course. There are two grade books kept by Mary S. Ker when she
was a teacher in the 1890s. Other nineteenth-century material
includes two composition books kept by Matilda B. Ralston in
which English sentences are translated into French, and Charles
Dorrance Stuart’s 1865 copy book which begins with the statement,
"A reward of a gun for copying this speech. Speech on the Force
Bill." Other school-related material includes various school
bulletins and Mary S. Ker’s teaching license and contracts.
See also Series 2.1 for additional teaching materials.
Folder 524 Report Cards, 1893-1912
525 Matilda B. Ralston, undated 19th century
526 Charles Dorrance Stuart, 1865
527 Tracy’s School Record-Mary S. Ker, 1894
528 Teacher’s Class Record-Mary S. Ker, 1896
and related material
529 Teacher’s License and Contracts-Mary S.
Ker, 1896-1915
530 Tillie Ralston Dunbar, 1903-1904
531 Catherine Shields Dunbar, c.1904-1908
532 Advertising School Correspondence Course-
Books and other materials
533 Advertising Correspondence Course, 1907-
1908
534 Advertising Correspondence Course, 1910
535 Flora Macdonald College, Crossnore School,
and Piney Woods School Bulletins, 1920s-
1950s
536 Miscellaneous Schoolwork
Series 8. Mardi Gras Material
1952-1992. 100 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by organization
Mostly invitations and programs for the Mardi Gras balls
sponsored by various krewes in New Orleans. Most of the
invitations were sent to Sue Percy Ker Hyams.
Folder 537 Athenians
538 Osiris
539 Rex
540 Rex, 100 years book
541 Mystic Club
542-544 Items returned to donor
Series 9. Miscellaneous Material
1839-1994. 100 items.
Arrangement: none.
Scrapbooks and other materials, including six scrapbooks, some
of which contain advertising and other pictures and some of which
contain newspaper clippings. Also in this series are a number of
other volumes, especially commonplace books in which the women of
the Ker and Dunbar families wrote poems, song lyrics, aphorisms,
and a few journal-like entries. Documentation of Robert P.
Hyams’s barge and towing business and of the individual tug boats
he owned are also included. (See also the Stocks folder in the
Financial and Legal series for stocks issued in these boats.)
There are several drafts of a National Geographic article about
New Orleans, for which Sue Percy Ker Hyams was interviewed and in
which she appears as a character. Other materials document the
Natchez Pilgrimage and other social and historical activities.
The story of Mr. Cosgrove is a 48-page typewritten story told
from the point of view of a child’s teddy bear, Mr. Cosgrove.
Folder 545 Church Material
546 Invitations, Programs, etc.
547 Drafts of National Geographic Article on
New Orleans
548 Preservation and Historic Organizations
549 Over the Garden Wall, Natchez Garden Club
550-551 Natchez Pilgrimage
552 Story of Mr. Cosgrove and related material
553 Poems
554 Recipes
555 Notes
556 Clippings
557 Certificates and other miscellaneous
material
558 Essays, Speeches, etc.
559 Drawings
560 Memorials to Tillie Dunbar
561 Robert P. Hyams Barge and Towing Business
562 "Minute Book and Organization Records
of Tugboat R. P. Hyams, Inc."
563 Album-Eliza Stuart, 1839
564 Commonplace Book, 1839-1852
565 Commonplace Book-Mary S. Ker, 1861
566 Garden Journal, 1920-1921
567 Garden Journal, 1922-1923
568 Commonplace Book-Sue Percy Ker Hyams,
1928
569 Commonplace Book-Sue Percy Ker Hyams,
1933
570 "Selections of Poetry"-M. B. Ralston,
19th Century
571 Address Books (3)
572 Notebooks (3)
573 Scrapbooks (V-4656/S-1-6)
Series 10. Pictures
1860s-1980s. About 1000 items.
Arrangement: into groups of family, friends, and unidentified
people.
Large series of photographs. Photographs of numerous
individuals who are represented in the papers of this collection.
Many excellent photographs of men, women, and children in late
19th century and early 20th century costume.
P-4656/Folder 31 Family Painted Portraits. Painted portraits of
Mary Susan Ker, an unidentified man, and an
unidentified woman, and drawing of a man
labeled Rodney, Ms. Photographs of painted
portraits: unidentified boy, Roane’s Uncle
Rousseau; David Ker, 1795; Mary Boggs Ker,
1795; John Ker, M. D.; Dr. Rush Nutt; Crosby
Smith Skidmore; Dr. Haller Nutt; Arlie? C.
Worth; Anne ?; unidentified woman, and an
unidentified man.
P-4656/Folder 32 Family Photographs: Butler Family. Two
portraits of Mamie Fort Butler and a portrait
of Laura Ormonde Butler.
P-4656/Folder 33 Family Photographs: Dunbar Family.
Portraits: Mamie Dunbar, 1895; G. Beauvist
[?] Dunbar; W. A. McP. Dunbar; [?] Dunbar; 3
portraits of Emily Dunbar undated, 1884, and
1888; R. Adams Britton and Tillie R. Dunbar;
Catherine Dunbar; Mary Ker Dunbar, 1908;
series of portraits of Tillie Dunbar; series
of Mary Dunbar; A. W. Dunbar, Jr., 1901; and
W. McPhetens Dunbar, 1887. Group photograph of
Mamie Dunbar’s children: Albert Willis, Mary
Ker, Catherine Shields, Tillie Ralston, and
Percy Ker Dunbar. Group photograph of
Catherine Dunbar, Mrs. Duncan Postlethwaite,
Mrs. Barton, Kitty Rhodes, and Mrs. John Ayres
in costume as characters in "Cranford". Three
group photographs of D.A.R. gatherings that
include Tillie Dunbar. Snapshots: Six
photographs of Catherine and Tillie Dunbar and
friends; Catherine and Tillie Dunbar; Tillie
Dunbar; Tillie Dunbar and Butler Reber; Tillie
Dunbar and Aunt Lil; Tillie Dunbar and two
unidentified women; two photographs of Tillie
Dunbar and Carol Ann Crum in antebellum
costume, 1964; and Tillie Dunbar; Mrs. Robert
McLaurin in antebellum costume, 1965.
P-4656/Folder 34 Family Photographs: Hyams Family. Portraits:
four portraits of Sue Hyams, 1946, 1949, and
two undated; Cindy, David, and Alan. Group
photographs: a wedding photograph of Mr.
Tecker, Clem Yore and wife, Sue Hyams, Mrs.
Byerly, her son Lee and daughter Ruth, Darrell
Gifford (groom) Helen Byerly (bride), and Rev.
Kuykendall and wife; photographs of three
carriages filled with people and Euphemie
Ayraud [Sue Hyams’s mother] in center
carriage. Sue Hyams at a children’s birthday
party; Sue Hyams with an unidentified man and
woman; group photo that includes: Warren
Woodward, Eleanor Tuttle, Mrs. Douglas
McArthur, John Rountree, Charles Own Johnson,
Mrs. Dewitt Gordon. Snapshots: two snapshots
of Sue K. Hyams and Ambrose Storck; Susan
Hyams Foy [?] and her mother Sue Percy Ker
Hyams; Sue Hines and Ron Hyams; Susan Percy
Hyams and Mrs. Rothrock; and Catherine Dunbar
Brown and Sue Ker Hyams, 1939.
P-4656/Folder 35 Family Photographs: Ker Family. Portraits:
two portraits of William Henry Ker, Jr.; Mary
Ker, 1903; John Ker; Jack Ker; Nellie Ker
Pearl; Mary Susan Ker, 1887; David Ker, 1896;
Cindy Ker; Miss Mary Ker; and David Ker, 1916.
Snapshots: two snapshots of Jack Jr. and
Harmar Denny Ker, 1915; the four little
Hallers and John Ker, Jr., 1913; John Ker and
Nan Waters; two pictures of John Ker with
unknown women; and a series of twenty
snapshots of Mary Susan Ker with her cat and
her sister-in-law Josie Chamberlain Ker, Jack
and Harmar Ker in Hamburg, three wedding
photos of Katherine Ker Shepard, 1965.
P-4656/Folder 36 Family Photographs: Ralston Family. Portraits
of George Ralston, 1888; and Mrs. George L.
Ralston and child.
P-4656/Folder 37 Family Photographs: Other Family Members.
Portraits: 10 year old boy labeled "My
Darling", 1891; group photograph of Cousin
Amelia, Rose, Sherbourne Choppin and wife;
Mary; Carrie; Julia Morgan Pearl. Snapshots:
baby in a carriage labeled "How do you like
me, Aunt Lillie?"; Aunt Lil; and Lillie;
photographs, 1921-1922, mostly of Catherine
Ralston Cocke.
P-4656/Folder 38 Friends and Associates. Portraits: Mary
McGavock Russell; Catherine Boyd; Mary Foster;
Namie Rhodes; Miss Sanderson; Alice Jenkins;
Margaret Larawson; Nell Larawson; Loren Kent;
McColler [?]; L. R. Connor, 1896; S. G.
Higginson, 1892; McNuron [?], Elliot Penrose
Jones, 1889; Dorothy Ann Campbell; Mrs. G.
Buchmann; hand-colored photograph of Louise
Oliver Ford; David Israel; Henry A. Garrett;
Daisy E.; Eugene Ellis, Jr.; Daisy Blake;
Kittie and David; Mrs. Leonard; signed
portraits dedicated to Susan Hyams from Ruth;
Grayson; "Sister"; Isabel; Tommy; and one
unsigned portrait; Madame de Mailly and
daughter; Mancy Lewis; Kathryn Yvonne and
George Healy, Jr., 1909; Carrie Wills; Tammie
Ayres, 1902; Percy; Helen and Sarah;
photograph of a girl captioned "childhood";
and prints of portraits of Goethe, Schiller
and Sec. Chase.
P-4656/Folder 39 Friends and Associates. Group photographs:
three women and a boy labeled B. Stuart; Peter
and David Rutan; Gandisyk family; group of
boys: C. M. Byrnes, Eddie Dulaney, [?] Baker,
Bertie; Christmas card containing eight photos
of children: Kathleen, Elizabeth, Sue, Becky,
Buddy, David, Robert, and Peter; class photos
of Mary S. Ker’s classes: two group photos of
Stanton College girls, 1902, and a fourth
grade class, 1905.
P-4656/Folder 40 Friends and Associates. Snapshots: Butler
Reber; Kitty Holt and her two little girls
Betty and Melanie, 1921; Melanie, Betty and
"me"; Wesley, Peter, and "me"; Charles and
"me"; two snapshots labeled Cobb, 1958; Nellie
and baby; George E. and a friend; Nellie and
Arthur Stanbury and Mrs. McCaskey; Arthur
Smith; Harvey Stanbury; Alice Sarah Stuart;
Preston Garland and Eula May; Mark Hollner;
Peter, 1963; Jean Mills Rutan and David
Bradford, 1964; Michael Drake Milligan, 1965;
Mildred and Earl Perry; Kitty Cade Holt and
Charley Holt, 1921; three photos of Betty and
Melanie Holt, 1921; Mrs. Engleheardt, "me",
Betty, Charley, Miss Husk, Melanie; Melanie,
Charles, and Betty; Junior and Ralph; Harvey
and Nellie Stanbury, Mr. and Mrs. McCaskey,
and Arthur Smith; Caroline Gold [?], Elsa
Barbara Lemle; Pat Ervin’s Advertising Party;
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Darling; Michael and Horse;
two photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Cure,
their sons and daughter-in-laws; Mimi and
Popo; and Anne, 1963.
P-4656/Folder 41 Unidentified People. Portraits: hand colored
portrait of a woman; woman, man, young woman;
boy in satin breeches, lace trimmed coat and
shoes with buckles; young man with high white
collar; woman with elaborate coiffure; child;
baby in christening gown; different baby in
christening gown; young woman; young woman
with large hat and fancy dress; young woman;
two older men; a couple in garden setting;
adolescent girl; young girl; older man in suit
with long coat; young woman; little girl;
toddler in gown; girl; two men in summer suits
and hats; group of men and women; high school
photo of a young woman, and a silhouette of a
boy.
P-4656/Folder 42 Unidentified People. Portraits, continued:
young girl; two men; woman; wedding bridal
portrait; young girl; man with enormous
mustache; man, older woman; different older
woman; little boy in kilt with two babies;
woman on bench, 1943; portrait of two young
girls; toddler; wedding portrait of bride and
groom in Army uniform; man in Navy sailor’s
clothing; woman; man in Naval Ensign’s
uniform, woman in hoop skirt; woman in gazebo;
woman on street; woman, 1888; half of a
portrait with a woman in intact half; group of
D.A.R. women.
P-4656/Folder 43 Unidentified People. Groups: photo of the
interior of a hardware store with five men
behind the counter; two men and a girl with a
cart pulled by cows; three children; class
photo of a group of girls sitting on steps;
class photo of adolescent girls and boys;
group photo of large group of young men and
women outside; costumed photo of "His Highness
‘The Sheik’—and Harem on board S.S. Manchuria,
at sea, 11 July 1922 [verso: "Jack is the
small sheik kneeling!"].
P-4656/Folder 44 Unidentified People. Snapshots: 1961 photo
of a group of women; group of men, women and
children sitting on front steps, 1921; two
young boys in the yard; two women; family
sitting on front steps of a house; cute photo
of two little boys on a horse; man going into
a basement; women helping baby walk; two men
in bowler hats; group of women; young woman;
older woman holding a baby; small group in
front of totem pole; young man; toddler in
bonnet; girl in party dress next to hobby
horse outside antique store; baby in carriage;
African-American man and women in front of a
house; group of women, one in a wheelchair;
baby and toddler sitting in grass; men with
car; group of women, man, two men and a woman;
four photos of women on horses; picnic under a
tent; five photos of two young girls; family
decorating Christmas tree; girl with tennis
racket; group of children; young girl; girl;
woman; three girls; group photo on bridge;
woman, woman with car; group photo; older
woman and young boy; African-American woman in
front of brick building; four pictures of
young children; boy; group of women; family
group; woman with large hat; series of
photographs [of Pomfret Conn.?] two of the
house, older man, two women, two different
photos of different women golfing; three women
in long white dresses, woman, two photos of
older women; stained glass window; six
cyanotype photos of a young woman, dogs, and a
house.
P-4656/Folder 45 Unidentified people and animals. Snapshots,
continued: woman in church; three of a little
girl; woman and man 10 Dec. 1922; boy with
dog; two girls; two men; a couple; group of
people on cart; large group of people eating
outside; young woman; old woman; five photos
of a large groups of men; two women; old man;
woman; woman with dog; woman with cat; woman;
woman; man; man in suit; man and woman; baby
sitting outside; young boys on horses in front
of antique shop; children with chickens; boy
on horse; woman with dog; African-American man
and woman in front of many sided brick
building; two photos of young women; woman
with baby; two women and a man in front of a
mountain; "Lindenwood von Schexnaydre" a
dachshund; two couples at Christmas, 1951;
choir; group of girls on porch; man; man in
uniform; young boy; young girl; two photos of
women playing cards; ten small photos of
various women; one small photo of a man; one
cyanotype photo of a baby; ten strips of small
photos of young men and women.
P-4656/Folder 46 Photos of Places and Things. St. Luke’s
Church in Hot Springs, Ark. Photo of a
steamboat on the river; railroad station; a
farm with mostly African-American men working,
a church; fourteen photos of various houses; a
birdcage with a dog sitting on top; sheep
grazing, man in a field with a cart drawn by
animals; thirteen photos of a Naval vessel; El
Recreo on Bayou-Terre-aux-Boeuff; Rosalie, 300
Luiton Avenue; house on Alamo Heights; little
house; Memorial Park in Natchez, 1929;
Christmas snow on the house opposite Trinity
Church, 1929; snow on a street in Natchez,
1929; French porch lamp; two photographs of a
china cabinet; fireplace; two photographs of
chairs; and table set with china.
P-4656/Folder 47 Delaronde Plantation. Four photos of the
plantation from the outside, nineteen photos
of antique furniture, photo of a 1905 painting
of the ruins of Delaronde Plantation, photo of
two paintings: Bayou Terre Aux Boeufs and
Racing.
P-4656/Folder 48 Funeral Cards. Black heavy cards with gold
lettering in remembrance of Mamie Dunbar and
Albert Willis Dunbar.
P-4656/Folder 49 Gravestones and Monuments. Twelve photos and
one very small album containing four photos.
Photographs of the graves of Isaac Lewis
Baker, James Plaisted, Euphemie Ayraud Ker,
Catherine Ker, Annie Percy Eustis, Jane Percy
Ker, and Dr. John Ker. Photographs of markers
erected by the Colonial Dames: Kingston,
first Protestant settlement in Mississippi;
Desoto Trail, to commemorate the discovery of
the Mississippi by Hernando DeSoto in May 1541;
Hernado DeSoto, where DeSoto and his men spent
the winter of 1540-1541. Also a photograph of
a bronze marker and tree planted in 1931 to
commemorate George Washington’s bicentennial
anniversary
P-4656/Folder 50 Mardi Gras Photographs. Two photographs of
Float 11, Rex, 1948 with Robert Hyams, Sam
Hobson, Wheeler Woolfolk, Bobby Woolfolk,
Willie B. Wisdom, ? Nugent, ? Scherer; the
Athenians Ball, 1950; Frank Richardson,
Captain of the Athenians and Mr. Hester
Plauche, a lieutenant, 1950; Robert, Wheeler,
and Sam, Carnival, 1950.
P-4656/Folder 51 Pomfret Conn.: Seven postcards of Pomfret,
Conn. The stables at Pomfret; a car, 1929; a
horse drawn vending cart; a house; an old man;
nine photos of Pomfret blanketed in snow, and
three photos of pets.
P-4656/Folder 52 Campaign Souvenirs. Five photographs of
buttons, ribbons and pins with pictures and
slogans from presidential campaigns. The
photographs include items with William
Jennings Bryan, William H. Taft, Theodore
Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses S. Grant,
Herbert Hoover, Woodrow Wilson, and Warren G.
Harding.
PA-4656/2 Album of Catherine and Tillie Dunbar. Twenty-four
page album containing about seventy-five pictures
of Catherine and Tillie Dunbar and their friends.
PA-4656/3 Album. Seven pages of photographs. Fifteen
pictures of a variety of unidentified locations.
PA-4656/4 Mini-Album. Four photographs labeled "Evansview
Views". Two photographs of painted portraits and
two of an outdoor scene.
PA-4656/5 Album. Sixteen photographs of "Evansview Hostess"
and Christmas 1963.
PA-4656/6 Album. Ten photographs of Evansview, a house
furnished in an antique style.
PA-4656/7 Album. Approximately sixty photographs. Subjects
include Julie Dunbar, Laura Ormoude Butler, Mary
Francis Butler, Virginia Butler, son of Myra Blake
Schuler, Daniel Carmichael Blake, Dick Jones’s
baby, Jack and Harmar Ker, Betty and Melanie Holt,
and others.
PA-4656/8 Album. Approximately thirty photographs of Butler
Reber, Tillie, Mary Susan Ker, and unidentified
others.
PA-4656/9 Album of Susan Hyams started in the summer of
1946. Approximately sixty photographs of Susan
and her friends from All Saint’s College; a trips
to: Cuba and Haiti, the University of Colorado,
Mexico City, and Chicago.
PA-4656/10 Catherine Dunbar’s D.A.R. Rosalie Scrapbook.
Twenty-two pages filled with photographs,
clippings, and explanatory captions written by
Catherine Dunbar about the D.A.R. house, Rosalie
1959-1960.
SF-P-4656/1 Tintype. Unidentified men.
SF-P-4656/2 Tintype. Unidentified men.
SF-P-4656/3 Tintype. Unidentified woman.
SF-P-4656/4 Tintype. Unidentified woman.
SF-P-4656/5 Daguerreotype. Unidentified woman.
SF-P-4656/6 Daguerreotype. Unidentified woman.
SF-P-4656/7 Daguerreotypes. Unidentified man. One regular size
daguerreotype and one very small (image itself is about half an
inch by half an inch) daguerreotype of the same man in a
different pose.
SF-P-4656/8 Daguerreotype. Unidentified woman.
SF-P-4565/9 Daguerreotype. Unidentified man.
SF-P-4656/10 Ambrotype. Unidentified woman.
SF-P-4656/11 Ambrotype. Unidentified African-American man.
SF-P-4656/12 Ambrotype. Very large with no backing. Unidentified man.
SF-P-4656/13 Tintype. Unidentified woman.
SF-P-4656/14 Ambrotype. Unidentified woman.
SF-P-4656/15 Tintype. Unidentified baby.
SF-P-4656/16 Tintype. Unidentified woman