Julia Valentine Dobbs Briggs papers, circa 1875 -- 1919

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Julia Valentine Dobbs Briggs papers, circa 1875 -- 1919

This series is open for research.

0.5 linear feet; 0.5 linear feet; 1 box

This series contains three scrapbooks ostensibly created by Julia Valentine Dobbs Briggs. The first contains poetry from approximately 1875; the second contains newspaper clippings about the Briggs family, including Mrs. Briggs, Agnes Briggs (deaconess), Emilie Grace Briggs, and Herbert W. Briggs; the third contains clippings about Julia's husband, Charles Augustus Briggs.

This series is arranged in chronological order.



Box 1 Folder 1 Scrapbook on poetry , circa 1875


Box 1 Folder 2 Scrapbook on the Briggs family, circa 1880 -- 1897


Box 1 Folder 3 Scrapbook on Charles Augustus Briggs, 1903 -- 1919