Item identifier: A2-0447
Description: Photograph: Beaulah McClellan. She
wrote the Social Note Column for the Florida Times-Union. No date
given.
Description: Attorney known for winning the "Little Scottsboro Case" in 1942. During his years in Jacksonville, he served as an officer of numerous clubs and civic organizations, including the Lincoln-Douglass Memorial Association. He spoke at the February 12, 1913 Tri-Celebration in Jacksonville.
Item identifier: D1-0330
Description: Photograph of Law Library of McGill
and McGill in The Crisis Magazine (January 1942 issue). Page 28.
Full Text
Item identifier: K2-0514
Description: Photograph: Endowment Board of
Knights of Pythias, July 20, 1918. (S. D. McGill, back row on left.)
Oversize photograph.
Item identifier: Q2-0560
Description: Photograph: S. D. McGill. (Oval portrait) No date given.
Item identifier: Q2-0561
Description: Photograph: S. D. McGill in office.
No date given.
Item identifier: Q2-0562
Description: Photograph: S. D. McGill, Charlie
Davis, Walter Woodward, Jack Williamson and Eartha White shown after
the Scottsboro trial. The three men spent seven years on Death Row
for murder. McGill appealed their conviction and obtained their
releases. March 1942.
Item identifier: Q2-0564
Description: Letter: From S. D. McGill,
Corresponding Secretary of Duval County Central Republican Club, to
Eartha White, thanking her for the address she gave at Mt. Zion
African Methodist Episcopal Church. Letter dated June 21, 1919.
Item identifier: Q2-0565-0566
Description: Miscellaneous newspaper clippings relating to legal cases of S.D. McGill. Multiple pages from oversize scrapbooks. Dates, sources vary.
Item identifier: Q2-0567
Description: Program: Funeral program for Nathan K. McGill, brother of Simuel McGill. May 11, 1946. Nathan McGill was an attorney who lived in Chicago. Son was named Simuel D. McGill II.
Item identifier: Q2-0568
Description: News release: The account of the "Little Scottsboro Case," Attorney McGill's defense of Charlie Davis, Walter Woodward and Jack Williamson, and the Testimonial Banquet held in McGill's honor after winning the case. Written by Spike Washington and sent to the Associated Negro Press, Chicago, Illinois. March 28, 1942.
Item identifier: Q2-0569
Description: Program: The Orlando District Sunday School Institute, August 15- 18, 1901. Eatonville, Florida. Note: S. D. McGill listed on program under the Finance Committee.
Item identifier: Q2-0570
Description: Newsclipping: "Summer Graduation Class of Edward Waters College," July 14, 19--?. Mrs. R. A. McGill listed in graduating class.
Item identifier: Q2-0571
Description: Leaflet: "Vote Against School Bonds: 1,500 Colored Children Without School Accommodation," issued by Colored Board of Trade. (S. D. McGill was member of Board). February 23, 1915.
Item identifier: Q2-0572a
Description: Poem: "The Little Scottsboro Case," written by Robert Hughes Bennett, Miami, Florida. Dated January 30, 1944. Poem was dedicated to Attorney McGill in honor of his legal victory in the Case. Palm Beach, Florida, March 9, 1942. (No. 572-a)
Item identifier: Q2-0572b
Description: Letter: To the Spingarn Medal Committee from Robert Hughes Bennett, nominating S. D. McGill for the Medal Award. January 19, 1944.
Item identifier: Q2-0573
Description: Letter: From J. Douglas Wetmore, to
S. D. McGill concerning the study of law. May 17, 1901. (possible
reference to the effects of the Great Jacksonville Fire of May 3,
1901)
Item identifier: Q2-0575
Description: Photograph: Unidentified photograph
of class, with S. D. McGill, left front. Note: Class may have been
Dummer Academy Class, South Byfield, Massachusetts. See Q2-2462
Item identifier: Q2-0576
Description: Photographs: Banquet in honor of S. D. McGill. Composite made by photographer for newspaper publicity of event. Oversize photographs. No date given.
Item identifier: Q2-2109
Description: Photograph: S. D. McGill, left front,
with unidentified group. Dated May 1922. Oversize photograph.
Item identifier: Q2-2462
Description: Newspaper clippings, program: Howard Academy Graduation, Dummer Academy. No exact dates given. One clipping has date of May 23, 1903. Program reference to: "...Class 1908."
Item identifier: Q2-2873
Description: Photograph: S. D. McGill. [Circa
1913?]
Item identifier: S-2886
Description: Charter: Name of S. D. McGill printed on the Boy Scouts of America charter to Troop no. 46 sponsored by the Clara White Mission, October 31, 1941. McGill served on the Troop Committee. (In Oversize Folder S - Clara White Mission - Activities)
Item identifier: Z10-2896
Description: Photograph: Matted reprint of S. D. McGill. No date given.
Item identifier: Q2-0563
Description: Card: Pledge card for Mrs. S. D. McGill for Community Chest.
Item identifier: S1-0404
Description: Form letter from Eartha White thanking individuals for donations to the Fresh Air Camp. No date given.
Item identifier: P2-0554-0559
Description: Photographs: Six photographs of various scenes at Manhattan Beach, Florida. (Also known as Seminole Beach - 1983). Nos. 554-559. No dates given.
Item identifier: H5-2758
Description: Photograph: Eartha White with Thurgood Marshall, first African American to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Nominated by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967. Served as Chief Counsel for NAACP from 1938 to 1961. No date given.
Item identifier: D1-0330
Description: Photograph of building in The Crisis
Magazine (January 1942 issue).
Full Text
Item identifier: Q5-0874
Description: Photograph: U. S. Representative Charles E. Bennett and Sallye Mathis. No date given.
Description: See Bowden, J.E.T. (Folder A2-2150)
Description: See Ritter, Louis H. (Folders U2-615; Q3-859)
Description: See Alsop, John T., Jr. (Folders U2-614; I4-423; R-207)
Item identifier: S2-0580
Description: Program: Reverend James S. Todd, prominent religious leader of Florida. Note: Eartha White listed on page 7-8 as "a dynamic member of the Negro Health Committee of which Rev. Todd served as the first President."
Item identifier: S2-0581
Description: Newsclipping: "Miss White Loses Lifetime Friends." Announcement of deaths of Mrs. Rebecca Styles Taylor Dobson and Dr. Mary F. Waring.
Item identifier: S2-0582
Description: Program: James Maxie Ponder, M.D., March 8, 1958. Service held in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Item identifier: S2-0583
Description: Newsclipping: "Dr. E. W. Thompson dies; Funeral Rites Monday," Florida Times-Union. No date given. Note: Dr. Thompson was a pharmacist, civic worker in Jacksonville.
Item identifier: S2-0584
Description: Newsclipping: Funeral announcement of Minus Thomas. No date given.
Item identifier: S2-0585
Description: Newsclipping: Death and funeral announcement of Mrs. Alice Kirkpatrick. January 26, 1959. She was a member of Bethel Baptist Institutional Church. (Memorial program in no. 595)
Item identifier: S2-0586
Description: Program: Mrs. Lilla G. Curry, December 9, 1962. Note: She was a Suwannee County teacher. Interment: Live Oak Cemetery, Florida.
Item identifier: S2-0587a-b
Description: Program, newspaper clipping: Alice Lenora Anderson, February 3, 1930. Note: Grand Worthy Superior of America & District Grand Most Noble Governor of Florida, G.U.O. of O.F.
Item identifier: S2-0588
Description: Program: Mrs. Christiana Jackson, October 7, 1929. Orlando, Florida.
Item identifier: S2-0589
Description: Program: Benjamin Homer Jackson, January 6, 1962. Deacon, Greater New Jerusalem Baptist Church.
Item identifier: S2-0590
Description: Program: Mrs. Livinia Storey, January 5, 1963. Note: Eartha White listed as an elder of the Ephesus Seventh-Day Adventist Church and spoke at memorial service.
Item identifier: S2-0591
Description: Program: Memorial service for Dr. John E. Ford. August 10, 1947. Note: Dr. Ford was pastor at Bethel Baptist Institutional Church for 36 years. Eartha White spoke at the Memorial Service, "Dr. Ford and the Community Needs."
Item identifier: S2-0592
Description: Program: Services for Reverend Cleveland M. Shaw. October 29, 1970. Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church, Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida.
Item identifier: S2-0593
Description: Program: Memorial Services for Dr. Minor Francis McCleary, Dr. Henry Elliot Williams, Dr. William Commodore Smalls. January 23, 1927. Under the auspices of the Jacksonville Local Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association.
Item identifier: S2-0594a-b
Description: Program: Reverend Lemul Calvin Way. February 21, 1970. Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. (2 copies)
Item identifier: S2-0595
Description: Program: Mrs. Alice Kirkpatrick. January 26, 1959. See Folder S2-585 for newspaper announcement of death
Item identifier: S2-2736
Description: Newsclipping: "St. Mary's Home Stands as Monument to Beloved Sister Mary Ann." Florida Times-Union, January 30, 1949. With photographs of Sister Mary Ann and St. Mary's Home. See also S2 - no. 2754
Item identifier: S2-2754
Description: Newsclipping: "Sister Mary Ann passed quietly away--Will be Missed by Poor of Jacksonville--Entire Life Given to Charity--Death of Angel of Mercy Brings Regrets to Residents of City." Florida Metropolis, January 15, 1914. Note: See also S2 - no. 2736.
Item identifier: S2-2784
Description: Thank you card from family of Dr. James Maxie Ponder. March 1958?
Item identifier: S2-2850
Description: Newsclipping: "Colored Pastor Here 22 Years Succumbs. Rev. J. Milton Waldron of Shiloh Church was Active in Welfare Movements." Evening Star, November 20, 1931. Note: Reverend Waldron (1863-1931) was instrumental in building two large churches in Jacksonville.
Item identifier: S2-2883
Description: Newsclipping: Funeral announcement of Police Sergeant Charlie Sea. May 24, 1939.
Item identifier: S2-2884
Description: Newsclipping: Funeral announcement of Mrs. Carrie Bradley. November 24, 1953. (She was a member of the Eastern Star Organization, with Eartha White.)
Item identifier: R2-0577
Description: Program: Memorial Day Services. No date given.
Item identifier: R2-0578
Description: Program: Tentative activities for Memorial Day Services. No date given.
Item identifier: R2-0579
Description: Photograph: Group at Memorial Day Services at Duval Cemetery, May 30, 1933. Under the auspices of Lincoln-Douglass Memorial Association and others. (Eartha White, center background.)
Item identifier: T2-0383
Description: Photograph: Mrs. Annie James, dietician; Mrs. Jennie Hart, pantry woman; and Bertha Wilbert, cook in kitchen at Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Item identifier: T2-0596
Description: Newsclipping: Open House of Mercy Hospital, Courier Newspaper, June 6, 1953.
Item identifier: T2-0597
Description: Photograph: Eartha White with nurses at Mercy Hospital. May 1958.
Item identifier: T2-0598
Description: Photograph: Eartha White with male patients on a ward at Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Item identifier: T2-0599
Description: Photograph: Eartha White, Mrs. Helen McLaughlin, Reverend Joseph Ray and Mission Mascot, "Hounddog." No date given.
Item identifier: T2-0600
Description: Photograph: Eartha White at birthday party for patient at Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Item identifier: T2-0601a
Description: Photograph: Mercy Hospital, 1449 Milnor Street. No date given.
Item identifier: T2-0601b
Description: Notes: Request to State Legislature for appropriation of funds for Mercy Hospital, June 6, 1953.
Item identifier: T2-0603
Description: Photograph: Eartha White with female patients on a ward at Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Item identifier: T2-0604
Description: Photograph: Group including Erma Brookins, Marie Mangrum and Grace Bateman, visiting the sick at Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Item identifier: T2-0605
Description: Photograph: Nurses at Mercy Hospital: first row, l-r: Mrs. Evelyn Cummings, Mrs. Edna Iszard, Miss Marian Beal; second row, Mrs. Anna Parker, Mrs. Beatrice Mack, and Miss Henrietta Cleveland; last row, Mrs. Eula Stanford, Eartha White and Mrs. Rosa Lee Wyche. May 1958.
Item identifier: T2-2052
Description: Photograph: Eartha White, Mrs. Grace Bateman, and Mrs. Helen McLaughlin interviewing relative of patient for admittance to Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Item identifier: T2-2157
Description: Newsclipping: "Clara White Mission `Mercy Hospital' To Hold Open House Sunday," Jacksonville Journal. May 25, 1958.
Item identifier: T2-2887
Description: Photograph: Group of nurses at Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Item identifier: T2-2888
Description: Certificate: From the American Association of Nursing Homes to Mercy Hospital, 1955.
Item identifier: U2-0442
Description: Newsclipping: "Merry Hearts Club Solicits Xmas Help," November 24, 1953.
Item identifier: U2-0606
Description: Newsclipping: "Merry Hearts Plan Christmas Program," Florida Times-Union, December 8, 1957.
Item identifier: U2-0607
Description: Photograph: Christmas Party given by Merry Hearts Club. (Eartha White sitting beside Christmas tree.) Oversize photograph. No date given.
Item identifier: U2-0608
Description: Photograph: Christmas Party given by Merry Hearts Club. (Eartha White and Jack Dew shown.) No date given.
Item identifier: U2-0609
Description: Invitation from Merry Hearts Club for a Christmas Party at Stanton High School, December 25, 19--?.
Item identifier: U2-0610
Description: Newsclipping: "Merry Hearts Club Seeks Volunteers," November 26, 1953.
Item identifier: U2-0611
Description: Newsclipping: "Merry Hearts Club Distributes Xmas Baskets," Florida Times-Union, January 5, 1948.
Item identifier: U2-0612
Description: Invitation from Merry Hearts for a Christmas Party, December 25, 1957.
Item identifier: U2-0613a-c
Description: Thank you card from Merry Hearts Club. (3 copies) No date given.
Item identifier: U2-0614
Description: Letter: Solicitation from Merry Hearts Club for Christmas gifts, with an endorsement from Jacksonville Mayor John T. Alsop, Jr., 1935.
Item identifier: U2-0615
Description: Letter: Solicitation from Merry Hearts Club for Christmas gifts, with an endorsement from Jacksonville Mayor Louis H. Ritter, 1966.
Description: See also American National Red Cross (Folder E)
Item identifier: V2-0793
Description: Photograph: Sinclair, William A., M.D. 1221 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No date given.
Item identifier: V2-2702
Description: Photograph: R. R. Wright, Major and Add'l Paymaster U.S.V., in Spanish-American War. No date given.
Item identifier: V2-2713
Description: Article: "Fightingest Tank Battalion Holds Tenth Reunion," Ebony, 1954.
Item identifier: V2-0616
Description: Photograph: Eartha White at USO function. November 3, 1962.
Item identifier: V2-0617-0618
Description: Photographs: Eartha White leaving services at Camp Blanding. No dates given.
Item identifier: V2-0619
Description: Photograph: Soldier at U.S.O. function sketching female model. No date given.
Item identifier: V2-0620-0621
Description: Photographs: Scenes from Patriotism
Parade. Eartha White is leading the parade. No dates given. (Image
no. 621 from UNF Digital Commons.)
Item identifier: V2-0623
Description: Photograph: Eartha White and State Defense Council. Oversize photograph. Photographer: E. L. Weems. No date given.
Item identifier: V2-0784
Description: Photograph: Olin McGhee (Corporal), October 17, 1942. Service at Camp Blanding, Jacksonville, Florida.
Item identifier: V2-0804
Description: Photograph: George W. Davis, Chief Engineer, N. Y. Laundrys, 418 E. Forsyth St., Jacksonville, Florida. No date given.
Item identifier: V2-0812
Description: Photograph: James Wells, 1st Sergeant, September 7, 1942.
Item identifier: V2-0852
Description: Photograph: Harry (Harvey?) F. Lofton. (Colonel) No date given.
Item identifier: V2-0863
Description: Photograph: John ? January 28, 1947
Item identifier: V2-0864
Description: Photograph: Ben States (Stokes?). September 27, 1943.
Item identifier: V2-1163a-f
Description: Photograph: Camp Blanding baseball
team, Jacksonville, Florida. Eartha White standing on left next to
team. (Four copies: 4 photographs, 2 postcards) No date given.
Item identifier: V2-2184-2185
Description: Badges: Honorary medals from World War I.
Item identifier: V2-2448
Description: Leaflet: War work campaign mass meeting, November 4, 19--?. Eartha White was listed as one of the speakers.
Item identifier: V2-2712
Description: Newsclipping: "No Negroes are to be sent off in first draft," Florida Times-Union. August 29, 1917.
Item identifier: V2-2783
Description: Photograph: Unidentified couple at USO party. No date given.
Item identifier: V2-2841
Description: Photograph: War Camp Community Service Group, Southern Division Conference, Jacksonville, Florida. December 11-14, 1918. Eartha White is the only woman in the photograph. (Oversize photograph - 11 1/2" x 45")
Item identifier: V2-2877
Description: Photograph: General Benjamin O. Davis. "He became the highest ranking Afro-American U.S. officer in 1940, when the Army made him a Brigadier General." No date given.
Item identifier: V2-2889
Description: Photograph: Dance band of Scotty Montgomery playing at USO function. No date given.
Item identifier: V2-2900
Description: World War I poster. Come On! : [Buy More Liberty Bonds.] Signed Walter Whitehead, 1918. Written in script: Jacksonville, Fla., October 19, 1918. Fourth Liberty Loan Executive Committee. [Names of committee members listed?] To C.L. Williams In appreciation of many courtesies. (In Oversize Collection)
Item identifier: V2-0622a-b
Description: Photograph: Group at the War Camp
Community Recreational Center in Savannah, Georgia. One copy in
oversize folder; second copy has Eartha White's photo in upper right
corner (for newspaper). Photographer: E. L. Weems. No date given.
Item identifier: V2-1160-1161
Description: Cards: Publicity for Community Center for Colored People, 519 West Gwinnett Street, Savannah, Georgia. The Center was under the supervision of Eartha White during World War I. No date given.
Item identifier: V2-1162
Description: Letter: From National Headquarters of War Camp Community Service, to Eartha White, concerning employment opportunities for returning soldiers. April 9, 1919.
Item identifier: V2-1169a-d
Description: Photograph: War Camp Community Services, Domestic Science Group, Savannah, Georgia. Eartha White, standing, fifth from left. (4 copies) No date given.
Item identifier: W2-0628
Description: Letter: From Miss W. B. Delany soliciting donations for Foreign Mission Board, July 21, 1922. (African Missionary Appeal)
Item identifier: W2-0629
Description: Program: "Islam," a religious drama given by Missionary Society of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church. April 3, 1938.
Item identifier: W2-0797
Description: Photograph: Miss L. C. Fleming (in
Africa). No date given.
Item identifier: W2-0818
Description: Photograph: Reverend J. L. Frazier.
No date given.
Item identifier: W2-0830
Description: Photograph: Mrs. Aquilla
Johnson-Scott. No date given.
Item identifier: W2-2133
Description: Newsclipping: "Wilberforce Institute Celebrations, Thirty Years of Steady Progress, Founder's Day Activities," Umteteli Wa Bantu, March 12, 1938.
Item identifier: W2-2134
Description: Newsclipping: "U. S. Consul General at Wilberforce," Umteteli Wa Bantu, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 12, 1938.
Item identifier: X2-0630;0632;0634
Description: Photographs: Annual outing for
underprivileged children at Moncrief Springs. August 1950.
Item identifier: X2-0631
Description: Newsclipping: "Moncrief Springs, the Splendor Has Vanished," Jacksonville Journal. July 20, 1963. Eartha White shown with sculpture of Indian who lived at Moncrief Springs.
Item identifier: X2-0633
Description: Photograph: Baptism at Moncrief
Springs. Eartha White in background. No date given.
Item identifier: X2-0635
Description: Photograph: Eartha White with band
during an event held at Moncrief Springs. No date given.
Item identifier: X2-0636-0637
Description: Photograph: Baptism at Moncrief Springs. No date given. (Two oversize photographs - nos. 636-637)
Item identifier: X2-2155
Description: Newsclipping: "Legend of Buried Treasure Clings to Moncrief Springs," Florida Times-Union, October 28, 1951.
Item identifier: K-1157
Description: Photograph: Robert Russa Moton, president of Tuskegee Institute. Robert R. Moton (1867-1940) was an African American educator. He succeeded his close friend Booker T. Washington, as president of Tuskegee Institute in 1915 and served the United States government in several capacities.
