Rosemary Moorehead Scrapbook
This scrapbook consists of approximately 120 images, mostly photographs, showing the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School and its vicinity. Many of the photographs show people, including Eunice Weaver (director), William King (principal), teachers, students, Arrowcraft staff members, and Franklin D. Roosevelt in Gatlinburg. Many of the photographs depicting school buildings are accompanied by crayon drawings. Also included are a series of images of Mt. LeConte (one taken during a lunar eclipse), a school newspaper, postcards, examples of weaving, and graphs of the students’ IQ’s. Almost all of the items are accompanied by typed captions.
Dates
- 1936 November 7
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Extent
0.9 Linear Feet
Abstract
This scrapbook consists of approximately 120 images, mostly photographs, showing the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School and its vicinity. Many of the photographs show people, including Eunice Weaver (director), William King (principal), teachers, students, Arrowcraft staff members, and Franklin D. Roosevelt in Gatlinburg. Many of the photographs depicting school buildings are accompanied by crayon drawings. Also included are a series of images of Mt. LeConte (one taken during a lunar eclipse), a school newspaper, postcards, examples of weaving, and graphs of the students’ IQ’s. Almost all of the items are accompanied by typed captions.
Biographical/Historical Note
Rosemary Jane Moorehead was born on May 18, 1913 in Decatur, Illinois to Lee C. and Dial (Davis) Moorehead. She graduated from Millikin University and taught fifth and sixth grade at the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School between 1935 and 1937. Moorehead married Joseph Brunson Barnwell on June 19, 1937 and they had four children. She died on May 21, 2003, in California.
Arrangement
This collection consists of a single box.
Acquisition Note
This collection is property of the University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Special Collections
Digitized Materials
This scrapbook has been digitized and is available at http://www.lib.utk.edu/arrowmont/scrapbooks.htm.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository