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Guide to the Papers of Loresa Arbula Matthews, c1900-1955

1860-1960

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Title
Loresa Arbula Matthews photographs 1860-1960
Creator
Subject
Matthews, Loresa Arbula, African-Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Biography, African-Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Social life and customs
Description
This collection includes photographs of members of the Matthews and Beale families, classrooms, the Oliver Iron and Steel Corporation, a women church society, the Trinity and Old Ebenezer Churces and several miscellaneous photographs., Loresa Arbula Matthews papers, MSP 0257, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania., Tamir Shaheed gift 1991 acc. 1991.0377 photographs, Tamir Shaheed gift 1992 1992.0050 photographs, Tamir Shaheed gift 1992 acc. 1992.0050 photographs, Loresa A. Matthews, an African-American woman, was born in 1910 to parents Laurence and Clara Beale Matthews. They lived in the Eighth Ward of Pittsburgh on the east side of the city. From 1943 to 1954, she worked for the Oliver Iron and Steel Corporation, receiving an honor for her extended employment, Gift of Tamir Shaheed, Processed MSP 0257 1/28/1997 J. Diehl, Finding aid available.
Publisher
Contributor
Matthews, Loresa Arbula., Oliver Iron and Steel Corporation (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
Date
1860-1960
Type
Collection, Text
Format
Identifier
oclc: 473378912, pitt: US-QQS-MSS257
Source
Language
eng
Relation
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-MSS257, pdcp_noharvest
Coverage
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
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