- Creator
- Smythwick, Eleanor T.
- Call number
- Sc MG 229
- Physical description
- 0.21 linear feet (1 box)
- Language
- English
- Preferred Citation
- [Item], Eleanor T. Smythwick collection, Sc MG 229, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
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Eleanor T. Smythwick was an administrator of the State of New Jersey Manual Training School at Bordentown (also known as the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth) and head of the Home Economics Education Department in the early 1950s. This collection contains correspondence, memoranda, and reports related to Eleanor T. Smythwick's career in the Home Economics Education Department at the State of New Jersey Manual Training School. Additionally, there are clippings and correspondence related to the closing of the State of New Jersey Manual Training School in the mid-1950s.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift of Frances Brown, May 1985.
Revision History
Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark. (2021 January 27)
Processing information
Accessioned by Andre Elizee, 1985.
Separated material
Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor