Nettie Marvin Allen Collection, 1892 – 1938

This scrapbook, created by Nettie Marvin Allen between [DATES?], documents Allen’s experience at the State Normal and Industrial School (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro). Scrapbook materials document Allen’s work as a teacher at the State Normal and Industrial School and as a nurse at Westbook Sanatorium Training School in Richmond, Virginia and the State Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina. Also included are names and signatures of people Allen met, along with descriptions of where and when she met them. There are photographs of college friends, including Mary Webb Nicholson and Anna Gove, who was photographed in France during World War I. Other contents include a receipt for a donation to the Students’ Building Fund, a May Day invitation postcard from 1916, invitations to class reunions and the Cornelian Literary Society reunion, and programs for the Class Song of 1895, the Cornelian Reunion of 1909, Commencement Exercises of 1938, Henderson High School Commencement of 1938 and Commencement Program of 1935; and photographs, postcards and newspaper clippings related to the State Normal and Industrial College.