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:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

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:

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Language: English

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

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Caroline (Carrie) Frances Turner was born 1883 in Painesville, Missouri to Henry Sanford Turner and Mary E. Blanton. In 1903, she was wed to Andrew Norris Webb from Streator, Illinois and was living in Keokuk, Iowa. Andrew, their only son, was born in 1904. From 1912 to 1930, Caroline Webb and her son Andrew were living in Madison, Wisconsin, seemingly without Andrew Webb Sr., with her parents, Henry and Mary Turner, at 10 North Blount Street. As a youth, Andrew Webb Jr. attended Brayton Grade School and Central High School. Later he was enrolled at the University of Wisconsin as a pre-med student. By 1930, Andrew had been admitted to the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Chicago and his mother was living in Chicago. Andrew was married to Roberta Ernestine Chambers in 1932 and two years later he died of tuberculosis. A few years after losing her son, Caroline’s parents both passed, her mother in January of 1937 and her father in June of the same year. Caroline continued to live in Chicago until 1961, when she returned to Madison. Throughout her time in Chicago, Webb held several civil service jobs. Caroline Webb died on June 13, 1975.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Betty Averril. Accession Number: M75-406

M75-406 Box   1 Folder   1	Family genealogy, bible pages
	Caroline Webb
	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   2	In relation to Jennie Hawkin's (sister) estate, 1952
Box   1 Folder   3	From Henry Proctor, 1929-1934, 1949, undated
Box   1 Folder   4	From Mary Turner, 1932, 1935
Box   1 Folder   5	From John Wesley Turner, 1952-1960
Box   1 Folder   6	From Andrew Webb Jr., 1927-1933
Box   1 Folder   7	From friends and others, 1934, 1959-1961
Box   1 Folder   8	Apartment lease information, 1954-1958
Box   1 Folder   9	Cards, ephemera, bank books, addresses, undated
Box   1 Folder   10	Employment, 1923, 1925, 1948, 1953
Box   1 Folder   11	Insurance policies, 1953, 1960
Box   1 Folder   12	Receipts, 1950s-1960s
	Henry and Mary Turner
Box   1 Folder   13	Correspondence to Mary Turner, 1934, undated
Box   1 Folder   14	Receipts, 1903, 1919, 1928, 1935, 1937
Box   1 Folder   15	Henry Turner's death, 1937-1939
Box   1 Folder   16	Mary Turner's death, 1937
	Andrew Webb Jr.
Box   2 Folder   1	Biographical and ephemera, 1921-1931
Box   2 Folder   2	Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Chicago, 1930
Box   2 Folder   3	Andrew's death, 1934
Box   2 Folder   4	Sympathy cards, religious ephemera, [ 1934]
Box   2 Folder   5	Henry H. Proctor, American Legion, ephemera, 1951-1952
	Photographs
Box   3 Folder   1	Webb family album, Madison, circa 1920s
Box   3 Folder   2	Andrew Webb scrapbook, Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Chicago, 1931-1934
Box   4 Folder   1-3	Individuals and groups, circa 1880-1950s
Box   4 Folder   4	Funeral memorials and individuals, circa 1865-1880s
Oversize PH Folder	Individuals, circa 1920s