Edith D. Booker Collection 1927-1979

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Union University
L. Douglas Wilder Library
Virginia Union University
1500 North Lombardy Street
Richmond, VA 23220
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Selicia Allen
Phone: (804) 278-4117
Fax: (804) 257-5818

Summary

Creator:
Edith D. Booker
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

This small collection contains the following inventory: 1. 5 snapshots ca. 1927
2. Junior Senior Banquet program, 1927
3. Class Exercise program, 1927
4. Graduation Exercises program (2), 1927
5.Union-Hartshorn Bulletin, HMC catalog, 1927
6. Composite graduation photo, 1927
7. Photo Mary Booker, 1928
8. HMC advertising brochure, ca. 1928
9. 1956 Reunion letter, program, photo, table namecard
10. 1977 Reunion program, Who's Who, questionnaire
11. 1979 Reunion photo, program, Who's Who
12. HMC Alma Mater, mimeograph copy, n.d.

Biographical / historical:

Edith Mattie Davis Booker is one of the last living graduates of Hartshorn Memorial College. At 91 (in 2001), she lives next door to the house she grew up in on Richmond-Henrico Turnpike on Richmond's north side.

Mrs. Booker attended high school at Hartshorn from 1924-1927. She went on to Virginia Union and graduated in 1931 with a B.A. From 1931-34 she taught English at the Northern Neck Academy in Richmond County. Her husband, Sylvester Booker, was the principal of the school. It became the Richmond County High School and Mrs. Booker continued to teach English, history and Latin until 1941.

She raised three children for the next 13 years, earning a library degree from Columbia University over 6 summers in that time. In 1954, she went to work for the Richmond schools as a librarian and worked for 20 years at Blackwell Middle School before retiring in 1974.

Mrs. Booker's daughter, Frances, graduated from Union in 1965. Sylvester Booker was a 1927 graduate of Union.

Acquisition information:
Received from Mrs. Booker.
Arrangement:

Collection is arranged alphabetically

Physical description:
.5 linear feet