State Normal School graduation dress, 1911

Summary

Creator:
Morin, Mamie Pearl Parker, 1891-1971
Date:
1911
Extent:
1.6 Linear Feet 1 oversized box
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

State Normal School graduation dress, ms2767, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of a white graduation dress from the State Normal School, Athens, Georgia, which belonged to Mamie Pearl Parker, who attended the State Normal School 1909-1911.

Biographical / historical:

Mamie Pearl Parker was born September 11, 1891 in Rockdale County, Georgia, and attended the State Normal School 1909-1911. She was employed by the U.S. Government as a statistician in Washington, D.C., and married Wilfrid Honore Morin of Brunswick, Maine, on December 18, 1930. Mrs. Morin died in Ormond Beach, Florida, on March 27, 1971 and is buried in East View Cemetery in Conyers, Georgia, with Wilfrid who died November 3, 1979.

The State Normal School for women opened in 1891 in a university-owned building and later moved to its own campus, in the section of Athens now known as Normaltown. -- New Georgia Encyclopedia http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved February 23, 2009)

Access and use restrictions

Preferred citation:

State Normal School graduation dress, ms2767, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.