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Grace Douglass Orr Papers
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Grace Douglass Orr Papers

  • US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.19
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The bulk of the collection consists of Mrs. Orr's recollections about her life and the lives of three of her brothers, and of family photographs.

Orr, Grace Douglas

Photographs

T. O. Douglass Jr.: photographs, Grace's memories of him (2 p.); letters from Orville to siblings 1944-46 T. O. and Maria Douglass: photographs Dorothea Douglass Leech: photographs; memorial service 1979.

Ralph E. Luker. Sons of the Iowa Band

75 typed p. Includes information about Paul Douglass, George Herron, George Gates. Ralph Luker's correspondence with Mrs. Leech (Paul Douglass's daughter) 1967-71. See also Ralph Luker, The Social Gospel in Black and White; American Racial Reform, 1885-1912, U. of North Carolina, 1991, especially pgs. 301-311 on Harlan Paul Douglass (E185.61.L85 1991)/span

Writings of Grace Orr

Includes: Personal reminiscences (1959; 10 typed pages), Random recollections of Boston Normal School of Gymnastics (1959; 6 typed pages). Also biographical sketch of Grace by her son Douglass, correspondence relating to 1957 Alumni Award to Grace, and the certificate.