Martha Coulling 50 Year Celebration Scrapbook

Access and use

Location of collection:
Longwood University
Archives and Special Collections
Greenwood Library
Longwood University
401 Redford Street
Farmville, VA 23909
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (434) 395-2432
Fax: (434) 395-2453
Restrictions:

There are no restrictions to access or use for research purposes.

Summary

Extent:
1.0 Linear Feet 1 archival flat box
Creator:
Longwood University. Class of 1894
Language:
English .

Background

Scope and content:

This scrapbook, compiled in 1937, contains 154 notes and letters written to Martha Willis Coulling on the occasion of her 50th anniversary of teaching at State Teachers College.

Biographical / historical:

Martha Willis Coulling was born in 1866 in Richmond, Virginia. She graduated from State Female Normal School in Nashville, Tennessee (now Peabody College) in 1886. In 1887, Coulling accepted a teaching position at State Female Normal School in Farmville, Virginia where she taught drawing and Latin until her retirement in 1942.

Custodial history:

It is unknown when, or by what means, this collection was acquired by Longwood University or the Greenwood Library Archives.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard