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Patricia O'Meara Robbins and Carroll Robbins Jones Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-341
Scope and Contents
This collection features the photography of Patricia O'Meara Robbins and the family research her daughter, Carroll Robbins Jones, compiled with her husband, Wilbur D. Jones, Jr., to write their book about Patricia's life and career--"She 'Shot' Her Way to Success: How China's Empress Dowager Ci Xi Launched a Photographer's Trailblazing Career," published in 2016. Some of the photographs were also featured in a 2001 book the Jones' wrote, "Hawaii Goes to War: The Aftermath of Pearl Harbor,"...
Dates:
circa 1870-2013; Majority of material found in 1933-1959
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Susan Taylor Block's Collection of Van Eeden Research
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-121
Scope and Contents
This collection contains information regarding the second iteration of Van Eeden farm colony in the 1940s, gathered as research material by local author Susan Taylor Block for her 1995 publication, Van Eeden. The first series of the collection features photocopies of original material from the Alvin Johnson Economic Papers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This mainly includes correspondence between Alvin Johnson, the founder of the new colony, and the...
Dates:
1938-1995
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
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