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Edwards, Willard H. |
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1.13.11 - Letter
Letter dated 4/13/1925 to W. H. Edwards, Trustee of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Anne B. Call enclosing a copy of a letter she is sending to Fiske Warren and a Fairhope Courier newspaper which she asks him to think over carefully.
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1.13.14 - Letter
Letter dated 5/15/1925 to Mrs. Comings from Anne B. Call regarding Fiske Warren's proposed amendment to the constitution which she opposes.
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1.2.12-14 - Membership List
Fairhope Single Tax Corporation list of members and addresses dated May 13, 1932.
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1.2.3-11 - Membership List
List of Fairhope Single Tax Corportation members and addresses dated 2/7/1935. (several copies)
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30.12.1-20 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February 1926. Included is general FSTC correspondence, the results of the February 4, 1926 annual FSTC elections, a letter to Fiske Warren from E. B. Gaston discussing the results of the election and Mrs. Anne B. Call's inclination to "throw out ballots where instructions are not strictly followed" (Mrs. Call is a FSTC trustee charged with overseeing the election), the opening of Brown ...
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30.13.1-8 - Correspondence
Papers of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February 1928. Includes the Treasurer's report for that month, the results of the annual elections for 1928, the approval of $25 to pay for clearing pecan trees in advance of opening Brown Street, a recommendation to curb and gutter certain FSTC owned streets and other general correspondence. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.15.1-34 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February 1927 and March 1927. Includes the official results of the Feburary 3, 1927 annual FSTC election, official audit of the 1926 FSTC financials, letters to the Alabama Public Service Commission, report on the value of fruit and nut trees on property the FSTC was readying to open, and other assorted FSTC correspondence. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.17.1-19 - Correspondence
General correspondence dated January 1927 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Included is a handwritten note from W. H. Edwards to the FSTC Council dated January 23, 1927 resigning as a FSTC Trustee. E. B. Gaston has written a note indicating that A. E. Schalkenbach was nominated to fill Edwards' vacancy. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.18.1-16 - Correspondence
General correspondene of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated January 1928. Included: Treasurer's Report for January 1928, the resignation letter of J. G. Lorenzen as FSTC Superintendent of Lands and Highways due to health reasons, the nomination of Marion Smith and A. E. Schalkenbach for Supt of Lands and Highways and Trustee in the upcoming elections, and general letters of inquiry from people thinking of moving to Fairhope. From the...
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6.9.1-113 - Correspondence
Correspondence (D, E) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1935-1954. 6.9.2-3 contains correspondence from the State of Alabama Department of Archives and History acknowledging receipt of 3 volumes of Meeting Minutes of the Exective Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association on 1/28/1937.
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FMH_0361 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph c.mid-1920s, of the schooner "Osprey" being built in the Manual Arts building at the School of Organic Education. The 34-foot sailboat and power boat was owned by Willard Edwards (seen on the far right), a teacher at the Organic School. Edwards conducted fishing and sightseeing trips in the Gulf waters. The Ospery could accommodate 15 passengers with "full cabin comfort" according to advertisements in the Fairhope Courier. E...
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FMH_0892 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph attributed to Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of a boat being towed past Knoll Park to Mobile Bay in Fairhope, Alabama. According to Fairhope historian Donnie Barrett, this is the Osprey, a boat built by School of Organic Education instructor Willard Edwards in the wood shop on the school campus. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives,Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History.
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FMH-A0005c - Audio, Digital
Interview (audio) dated 1998. Mary Lois Timbes-Adshead interviews Helene Beiser Hunter, Evalyn Berglin Porter and Eloise Nichols Rowe for background research for her books "Meet Me at the Butterfly Tree" and "Fair Hope of Heaven." Kenneth C. Cain joins the conversation briefly at the beginning. Approximately 33 minutes, 20 seconds. Note that Mary Lois Timbes-Adshead interviews some of these participants in FMH-A0005a and FMH-A0005b. Topics...
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PMG-4646-4683 - Documents
Memoir of Marjorie Edwards Ewing. Mrs. Ewing was the daughter of Willard Edwards, Edwards and family came to Fairhope in 1924 where he taught at the School of Organic Education. In 1933, Edwards moved to the Soviet Union, with the family following a year later. This information includes newspaper clippings and Marjorie Edwards Ewing's recollection about the family's experiences in which some members returned to the U.S. and some stayed in the...
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PMG-5897-5924 - Student Paper
Student paper by Shae Sherertz written in April 1984 to fulfill requirments for History 488, a senior level undergraduate course taught by Univeristy of Virginia Corcoran Professor of History Dr. Paul M. Gaston. Paper is titled "From Fairhope to Russia: In Pursuit of Utopia," and details the story of Willard H. Edwards, a teacher at the School of Organic Education in Fairhope, Alabama who went to Soviet Russia in the mid 1930s to find a teac...
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PUB_0200 - Article
Article by Larry E. Holmes titled "To the Great Socialist Beyond: Fairhope, the Organic School, and Russia (The journey of Willard and Helen Edwards)" published October 28, 2022 in the Journal of Russian American Studies. This academic paper studies the life of Willard H. Edwards (1886-1953), born near Chicago, Illinois and a Navy veteran (1918-1919), who with his wife Helen and three children Marjorie, Bert and Dan (aka Kenneth), moved to F...
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