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Title: Ruth Strange papers
Dates: 1912-1990
Collection number: MS 35
Creator:
Strange, Ruth.
Collection Size:
.25 linear feet
(1 box)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Oakland, CA 94612
Abstract: The Ruth Strange Papers include 13 photographs of friends and family of Ruth Strange. The collection includes two class photographs
of the Hawthorne School in Oakland, California taken in 1922 and 1924, and also a photograph of Captain Roger Romaine, a Tuskegee
Airman and member of the 99th Fighter Squadron during World War II. There is also manuscript on the genealogy of the Allen
family written by Ruth Strange in 1990.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Permission to publish from the Ruth Strange Papers must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland.
Ruth Strange papers, MS 35, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
Processed by Sean Heyliger, 06/25/2013.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Ruth Strange Papers include 13 photographs of friends and family of Ruth Strange. The collection includes two class photographs
of the Hawthorne School in Oakland, California taken in 1922 and 1924, and also a photograph of Captain Roger Romaine, a Tuskegee
Airman and member of the 99th Fighter Squadron during World War II. There is also manuscript on the genealogy of the Allen
family written by Ruth Strange in 1990.
Series I. Photographs
Series II. Family genealogy
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Oakland (Calif.)--History--Pictorial works.
Hawthorne School (Oakland, Calif.).