Caroline Webb Papers, circa 1865-1961

Summary Information

Title: Caroline Webb Papers
Inclusive Dates: circa 1865-1961

Creator:
  • Webb, Caroline, 1883-1975
Call Number: M75-406

Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (1 archives box and 1 half-archives box) and approximately 215 photographs (2 archives boxes and 1 oversize PH folder)

Repository:
Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
Papers of Caroline Webb, an African American woman from Iowa who lived in Madison and Chicago during the early twentieth century, documenting her family relations and friendship with Henry H. Proctor through correspondence, her personal finances, and the deaths of her son and parents. The materials also document the experiences of Webb’s son, Andrew, as a child growing up in Madison through a photograph album, circa 1920, and as a patient at the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Chicago through a scrapbook he created, 1931-1934. Also present are several dozen photographic images of African American men, women, children, and infants (circa 1860s-1950s), funeral memorial cards, and portraits of Webb’s acquaintances.

Note:

View electronic reproductions of images from the Caroline Webb Papers in an online gallery.



Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m75406
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