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Lowrie and Derr families papers
This collection of family papers documents at least two generations, based largely in Wilkes Barre and Philadelphia. It includes a large amount of family correspondence and photographs; marriage records; diaries; financial records; art work and a manuscript by Elizabeth Derr Davisson; research notes...
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| Collection: | Lowrie and Derr Families Papers |
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| Collection Number: | D1259 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| 245 | 1 | |a Lowrie and Derr families papers |f 1844-1969 | |
| 300 | |a 25.0 Linear feet |f 28 containers (boxes and suitcases), 1 framed item, several loose folders | ||
| 500 | |a Barney, Davisson, Derr, and Lowrie family papers | ||
| 520 | |a This collection of family papers documents at least two generations, based largely in Wilkes Barre and Philadelphia. It includes a large amount of family correspondence and photographs; marriage records; diaries; financial records; art work and a manuscript by Elizabeth Derr Davisson; research notes, manuscripts, and published volumes on Philadelphia history by Sarah Dickson Lowrie; and songs, poems, and plays by Thompson Derr. Documentation from 1910-1960 is more robust. Of special interest are materials relating to tourism in the Southwestern United States and Native American art, life in London during World War II, and Philadelphia history. This collection includes an extensive album of tintypes. | ||
| 541 | 1 | |a Gift of Harriet Barney Lidgerwood and Katharine Barney Garfield, December 1998. | |
| 544 | |a "Public Baths Association of Philadelphia Records, 1890-1950," Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Collection 1999. | ||
| 545 | |a Andrew Fine Derr was born in Pennsylvania in 1843 to John Derr and Hannah Fine, and died in Pennsylvania in 1915. He married Harriet Lowrie, born in Pennsylvania in 1871 to Samuel T. Lowrie and Elizabeth Dickson. They had 4 children: Katharine, Thompson, Elizabeth, and Andrew Jr. Harriet Lowrie was born in Pennsylvania in 1871 to Samuel T. Lowrie and Elizabeth Dickson. Harriet passed away on June 26, 1965 in Farmington, Connecticut. Elizabeth Lowrie Derr, born in 1898, married Oscar F. Davisson. She was an artist and writer, author of Polka Dot of the Flying M Ranch. She died on April 6, 1965. Katharine Dickson Derr was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1899. She married Austin Dunham Barney and had one daughter, Harriet Barney Lidgerwood (1925-2002). Katharine passed away in 1978 in Connecticut. Thompson Derr was an aspiring playright, actor, and poet. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1901. He moved to England, where he lived through World War II, and died in 1951. Andrew Derr Jr. was born in 1903. He married Elizabeth Cecelie Detwiller. Sarah Dickson Lowrie was the sister of Harriet Lowrie Derr. "SARAH DICKSON LOWRIE (1870-1957) was a lifelong observer and commentator of Philadelphia and activist. In addition to her position with the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Lowrie was one of the original members of the women's Committee of 1926. Organized at the mayor's invitation, the Committee took an active role in the second world's fair hosted by Philadelphia to commemorate the country's sesqui-centennial celebration of independence. Their project "High Street" was Lowrie's idea and took its title from the original name of the main thoroughfare that divides the city north and south. The project involved a re-creation of a late 18th century cityscape that included the building of 20 replica houses. After the sesqui-centennial, the Committee of 1926 took on the restoration, furnishing and administering of Strawberry Mansion, one of the 18th-century homes in Fairmount Park. The Committee continues to administer the home today. Lowrie served as its corresponding secretary and during the 1930s she and Museum director Fiske Kimball exchanged letters regarding certain furnishings for the house. Lowrie also wrote or was co-editor of three titles published for the Committee of 1926. Her subjects were "Notable Women of Pennsylvania," High Street and Strawberry Mansion. Lowrie was also active in social reform. Using a dinner party of the retail magnate and fellow reformer John Wanamaker as her stage, Lowrie proposed the establishment of public baths to improve the sanitation conditions of the working poor. The suggestion came to fruition when in 1895 the Public Bath Association of Philadelphia was granted incorporation. One of Lowrie's more formal speaking engagements included an address given to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia in 1953 about Charles Thomson, who served as secretary to the Continental Congress." (Bertha Adams, finding aid for "Sarah Dickson Lowrie Biography of Eli Kirk Price," Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives) | ||
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Davisson, Elizabeth Derr |d 1899?-1965 |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Derr, Harriet Lowrie |d 1871-1965 |2 Local Sources |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Derr, Thompson |d 1901-1951 |2 Local Sources |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Lowrie, Sarah Dickson |d 1870-1957 |2 NACO Authority File |
| 650 | 0 | |a Indian art | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945. | |
| 700 | 3 | |a Barney family |e donor | |
| 700 | 3 | |a Davisson family |e donor | |
| 700 | 3 | |a Derr family |e donor | |
| 700 | 3 | |a Lowrie family |e donor | |
| 852 | |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b Lowrie and Derr Families Papers |c D1259 | ||