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Portland Colored Evening School (Louisville, Ky.) register, 1909-1915

Item

Title

Portland Colored Evening School (Louisville, Ky.) register, 1909-1915

Description

Register of the Portland Colored Evening School (Portland neighborhood, Louisville, Kentucky) for 1909-1915. Records name, age, place of residence, occupation, enrollment and/or transfer dates, and vaccination. Two loose documents inserted in the volume include a list of student names and Minetta Warnell Jackson's 1915 Certificate of Graduation. A feather pen is also included. Only a representative sample of blank pages were scanned.

Henrietta Helm (1863-1942) operated the school and taught the majority of classes represented in the register.

Source

Mss. BI P852, Portland Colored Evening School (Louisville, Ky.) Register, 1909-1915, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky

Date

1909-1915

Relation

See also: 021PC34 - A cabinet card of Henrietta Helm with her signature at the bottom. https://filsonhistorical.catalogaccess.com/photos/32045

Format

register

Language

eng

Type

Text

Identifier

Mss. BI P852

Citation

Portland Colored Evening School (Louisville, Ky.) and Helm, Henrietta Beauchamp, 1863-1942, “Portland Colored Evening School (Louisville, Ky.) register, 1909-1915,” The Filson Historical Society Digital Projects, accessed August 13, 2026, https://filsonhistorical.omeka.net/items/show/6723.

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