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Contributing Institution:
SSFPL History Room
Title: Alice Sharp papers
Creator:
Sharp, Alice
Identifier/Call Number: ssf.ms.0003
Physical Description:
.5 Linear Feet
(1 manuscript box, 3 folders)
Date: 1953 April 3
Abstract: The Alice Sharp collection is composed of 36 letters written by her 4th and 5th grade students when she taught at Buri Buri
Elementary School in South San Francisco. The letters, written in 1953, were addressed to her father, Robert Elmer Sharp,
who resided in Jacksonville, Florida. Alice Sharp utilized the writing exercise to help her students practice penmanship.
Physical Location: This collection is located in the SSFPL Grand Avenue Library History Room at 306 Walnut Ave., SSF.
Language of Material:
English
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Container: 1
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Alice Sharp Class Papers were gifted by Katharine Carrillo, Alice Sharp's daughter, to the South San Francisco Public
Library History Room in January 2019.
Arranged alphbetically by student's name.
[Identification of item], Alice Sharp Class Papers, Accession # ssf.2019.001, South San Francisco Public Library History Collection.
Processed by Shelby Wright September 2019.
The Alice Sharp collection is composed of 36 letters written by her 4th and 5th grade students when she taught at Buri Buri
Elementary School in South San Francisco. The letters, written in 1953, were addressed to her father, Robert Elmer Sharp,
who resided in Jacksonville, Florida. Alice Sharp utilized the writing exercise to help her students practice penmanship.