- unitid
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{"value"=>"20771", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 257", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b11883948", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1865-1975", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1865/1975"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Shivery family papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"7 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3.46 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Shiverys, Smiths and Blazes were three branches of a southern African-American family. The Shivery Family papers document the life, history and relationships of the three families in the South, from the Reconstruction to the present."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Shivery family", "type"=>"famname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Shiverys, Smiths, and Blazes were three branches of a southern African American family. Five generations of intra-family relationships are well documented in this collection. Charles and Emanuel Smith, from Apalachicola, Florida, were born during slavery. During the Reconstruction, they were respectively appointed postmaster and school instructor in the County of Franklin, Florida. Also born during slavery and trained as cooks since their childhood, the children of Charles Smith moved to Savannah after the Civil War, where they worked as seamen. Charles Smith, Jr. eventually became a ship steward on a coastal steamship line between Savannah and New York. Married to Josephine Blaze, he had three daughters: Melinda, Emily, and Lula. He died in 1914. Madeline Shivery (1877-1974) described her grandfather, George Richard Shivery, as a former slave who settled with his family in Gainesville, Florida, at the close of the war. He was both a minister and a prosperous merchant tailor. At the time of his death in 1891 or 1892, he had built a large house for his family, a church, a hotel, and owned substantial amounts of land. Two of George Richard Shivery's sons, Cornelius and Alexander, had moved to Savannah and married two of the Blaze sisters, Melinda and Janet, respectively. The children of Cornelius Shivery were Madeline and George Smith (1880-1934). Madeline and her three cousins, Melinda, Lula, and Emily, grew up in Savannah and lived together in the same house for 70 years. They were dedicated school teachers and attended several universities, both in the South and the North. George Shivery graduated from the Meharry School of Dentistry in 1909. His son, George Shivery, Jr., a social worker and a painter, moved to New York, where he married Veoria Warmsley.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Shivery Family papers document the life, history and relationships of the Smith, Shivery, and Blaze families in the South, from the Reconstruction to the present. The collection is divided into two family groups, the Smiths and the Shiverys. This collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, legal and financial documents, educational and professional papers, minutes of religious and civic organizations in Savannah, Georgia, and scrapbooks. Correspondence includes letters from W. E. B. Du Bois to members of the Shivery family and the love letters of Melinda Smith. Letters between family members, particularly the women in the Smith and Shivery families, chronicle African American middle class life.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Shivery family papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20771#c1651317'>Smith family</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1869-1975</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20771#c1651343'>Shivery family</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1865-1973</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20771#c1651376'>Scrapbooks and printed matter</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20771#c1651382'>Additions</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1905-1962</div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged into four series: I. Smith family; II. Shivery family; III. Scrapbooks and printed matter; and IV. Additions.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Veoria Shivery, June 1986.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Transferred to the Art and Artifacts Division: etchings.</p> <p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Two individual accessions consolidated into one collection; accessioned by Andre Elizee, July 1986-1987.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2021 August 19"}
- date_start
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1865
- keydate
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1865
- date_end
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1975
- date_inclusive_start
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1865
- date_inclusive_end
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1975
- extent_statement
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3.46 linear feet (7 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Shivery family papers, Sc MG 257, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}