Mamie Marie Walton-Jackson Collection of Photograph Albums: Finding Aid
photCL 695
Nichole L Manlove
The Huntington Library
March 2023
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Mamie Marie Walton - Jackson collection of photograph albums
Identifier/Call Number: photCL 695
Physical Description:
2.75 Linear Feet
(3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1916 -1968
Date (bulk): approximately 1941-1953
Abstract: A collection of three photograph
albums, one college scrapbook, 103 loose photographs, and ephemera documenting the
education, family life, travel, and teaching career of Mamie Marie Walton-Jackson
(1916-2009). The materials span approximately from 1916 to 1968.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Mamie Marie Walton-Jackson collection of photograph albums, The
Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from McBride Rare Books, January 2023.
Biographical / Historical
Mamie Marie Walton-Jackson (1916-2009) was born in Jim Crow-era Georgia and spent her life
as a student, wife, educator, and mother. Jackson graduated from historically Black Clark
College in Atlanta, Georgia, and the following year, in 1941, went on to marry Jerry B.
Jackson. The birth of their only child, Durante Jackson, would follow six years later in
1947. She was employed as a home economics instructor, spending 1951-1952 at the segregated
Buford High School in Buford, Georgia.
Scope and Contents
A collection of three photograph albums, one college scrapbook, 103 loose photographs, and
ephemera documenting the education, family life, teaching career, and travels of Mamie Marie
Walton-Jackson (1916-2009). The materials span approximately from 1916 to 1968. The college
scrapbook includes images, lists, and ephemera representing Walton-Jackson, her classmates,
instructors, and campus life. The three photograph albums cover Jackson's wedding day, her
husband, her son Durante, family-related events; her career as a home economics instructor
at Buford High School from nineteen fifty one through nineteen fifty two, pupils, fellow
instructors; and vacations in the West and Southwest. The loose photographs and ephemera
cover the aforementioned areas. The six pieces of loose ephemera include a Mother's Day card
from her son, a newspaper clipping about her niece Janice, a cable car ornament, a napkin
from the Buford High School 1953 Junior-Senior Prom, a small Faculty label, and a small
Clark College label. Among the photograph albums and loose photographs are color as well as
hand-colored images of a younger Mamie, Jerry, Durante, and friends and family.
Processing Information
Processed at the time of accessioning by Nichole L Manlove in March 2023.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically, with loose photos at the end.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
African Americans.
African American women teachers.
Arizona.
California.
Ephemera.
Georgia.
Louisiana.
New Mexico.
Photograph albums.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Texas.
Tourism – United States.
Women college students -- United States
Box 1
Clark University "School Silhouettes" scrapbook and photograph
album
1940
Box 1
Jackson family photograph album
approximately 1941-1953
Box 2
Teaching career photograph album
1951-1952
Box 2
Jackson family vacations photograph album
approximately 1952-1954
Box 3, Folder 1
Loose photographs - family
approximately 1916-1950s
Box 3, Folder 2
Loose photographs - family
approximately 1916-1950s
Box 3, Folder 3
Loose photographs - family
approximately 1940s-1968
Box 3, Folder 4
Loose photographs - teaching career
approximately 1951-1952
Box 3, Folder 5
Loose photographs - vacation
approximately 1952-1954
Box 3, Folder 6
Ephemera
approximately 1940s-1967
