Manuscript Database

Creator/Title

Portland Colored Evening School (Louisville, Ky.) Register, 1909-1915. 1 vol. (44 pp.)

Call No.

Mss. BI P852

Content

Maintained by Henrietta Beauchamp Helm, an African-American educator, this Register for the Portland Colored Evening School lists the enrollment of students who attended the school between 1909 and 1915. Students included both men and women between the ages of 14 and 61. Recorded are their names, ages, places of residence and occupations. Also included are their enrollment and/or transfer dates as well as whether they had been vaccinated. Two loose documents inserted in the volume include a list of student names and Minetta Warnell Jackson's 1915 Certificate of Graduation. (An autographed photo of Ms. Henrietta Helm, ca. 1900, was separated to the Filson photograph collection, 021PC34.)

Subject Heading

Schools - Kentucky - Louisville