Fry, Annette Riley, Papers, 1882-1983 (C3729)
.4 linear feet
INTRODUCTION
The Annette Riley Fry Papers contain primarily correspondence between Fry and people, or relatives of people, who came to Missouri from New York on "orphan trains" sponsored by the Children's Aid Society during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Fry wrote an article on the orphans which appeared in the December 1974 issue of American Heritage.
DONOR INFORMATION
The Fry Papers were donated to the State Historical Society of Missouri by Annette R. Fry on 20 August 1983 (SHS Accession No. 2486).
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The major strength of the collection is the correspondence between Fry and the orphans who came West on the "orphan trains," or their relatives. The correspondence contains photographs, newspaper articles, and other information on the orphans. Also included is correspondence with a number of Missouri newspapers, the State Historical Society of Missouri, and the Kansas City Public Library, and a scattered series of Children's Aid Society annual reports from 1882 to 1923.
FOLDER LIST
| f. 1 | Lebanon, Missouri, Parties, 1909, 1911 |
| f. 2 | Lebanon, Missouri, Party, 1909--Fred Davis |
| f. 3 | Lebanon, Missouri, Party, 1909--Rifenburg family |
| f. 4 | Lebanon, Missouri, Party, 1911--Jennie Davis |
| f. 5 | Lebanon, Missouri, Party, 1911--Mamie Curn Murray |
| f. 6 | Lebanon, Missouri, Party, 1911--Edna Riggle |
| f. 7 | Lebanon, Missouri, Party, 1911--John Snell |
| f. 8 | Monroe City, Missouri, Party, 1923--Sterling Grant Alden |
| f. 9 | Monroe City, Missouri, Party, 1923--Pauline Delashmutt |
| f. 10 | Monroe City, Missouri Party, 1923--Katherine Ely |
| f. 11 | Monroe City, Missouri Party, 1923--Harold S. McElroy |
| f. 12 | Cora, Missouri, Party, 1900--Eileen Shackleford |
| f. 13 | Lebanon, Missouri, Party, 1888--Annie Rogers Lathrop |
| f. 14 | Macon, Missouri, Party, 1896-John Shea |
| f. 15 | Palmyra, Missouri |
| f. 16 | Quincy, Illinois, Party, 1890--Mary Chapman |
| f. 17 | Troy, Missouri, Party, 1910--Floyd Smith |
| f. 18 | Henry L. Jost |
| f. 19 | Kansas City Public Library |
| f. 20 | Missouri Newspapers |
| f. 21 | State Historical Society of Missouri |
| f. 22 | Children's Aid Society Annual Reports, 1882-1923 |
| f. 23 | Miscellaneous Articles |
| f. 24 | Miscellaneous Correspondence |
INDEX TERMS
These index terms are the subjects, people, places, etc. under which this collection is listed in all available indexes at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. If you are interested in a specific index term, please contact the reference staff.
- Alden, Sterling Grant
- Bethlehem Baptist Church, Ralls County, Missouri
- Boys, 1880s
- Boys--Costume, 1880s
- Chapman, Mary
- Child welfare
- Children
- Children--Costume, 1900s
- Children--Costume, 1910s
- Children's Aid Society
- Davis, Fred
- Davis, Jennie
- Delashmutt, Pauline
- Dolls
- Ely, Katherine Peckham
- Fashion, 1970s
- Fitchen family
- Fry, Annette Riley
- Graves, Willis (1923-1972)
- Jost, Henry L. (1873-1950)
- Lathrop, Annie Rogers
- Lebanon Daily Record, Lebanon, MO
- McElroy, Harold Shad
- Medcalf, John Sekala (1918-1961)
- Missouri, Lebanon
- Missouri, Monroe City
- Missouri, Palmyra
- Murray, Mamie Curn (1904- )
- Old age
- Orphan trains
- Orphans
- Rifenburg family
- Rifenburg, Howard Darnell (1906-1949)
- Rifenburg, Lucy Eldridge (1895-1970)
- Rifenburg, Nelson Ray
- Riggle Edna (1902-1975)
- Shea, John
- Smith, Floyd
- Snell, John
- State Historical Society of Missouri
- Tice, B.W.
- Toys
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