Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a 1904 The Normal Magazine school catalog, along with the diplomas and certificates earned by Mattie Corbell and Harry Brown. Mattie Corbell received two diplomas: one for graduating grammar school in 1901 and one for graduating the Tempe Normal School in 1905. She also received a certificate from the Arizona Territorial Fair in 1905 for the best English notebook from a territorial institution. Harry Brown received his diploma from the Tempe Normal School in 1906 and later received his teaching certificate from the state of California in 1910.
Dates
- Creation: 1901-1914
Access Restrictions
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Copyright
The Arizona Board of Regents retains copyright to this collection for and on behalf of the Arizona State University Library. Requests to publish, display, or redistribute information from this collection must be submitted via our online application.
Biographical Note
Harry William Brown was born to William (ca. 1855-) and Eliza (Bowen) Brown (1856-1920) in Silver King, Arizona on September 23, 1883. He graduated from Tempe Normal School on June 7, 1906 and married Mattie Corbell on September 18, 1907 in Phoenix, Arizona. Martha Mattie
Virginia Corbell was born to John Avery (1856-1898) and Wiley (Kimbro) Corbell (1862-1953) in Texas on November 21, 1884 and graduated from Tempe Normal School on June 8, 1905. The couple moved to California before 1910, where Harry Brown received a grammar school teaching certificate on September 12 of the same year. The couple settled in Vallejo, where Harry Brown worked in the Mare Island Navy Yard, and had two children, Phyllis Kathryn (Brown) Herron (1917-2007) and Robert Wiley (1920-1944). Harry Brown died in Vallejo on March 6, 1957 and Mattie Brown followed on August 7, 1984.
Full extent
2 Box(es)
Full extent
1.2 Linear Feet
Language of materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of a 1904 The Normal Magazine school catalog, along with the diplomas and certificates earned by Mattie Corbell and Harry Brown.
Arrangement
This collection consists of two boxes.
Provenance
These materials were donated to University Archives in 1990 (Accession #1990-00412).
Processing Note
Materials in this collection were removed from University Small Manuscripts (Previously numbered as UM USM 560, 561, 562, 563 and 564).
- Title
- Harry and Mattie Corbell Brown Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Zoie Ypsilanti
- Date
- 2023-09-16
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository details
Part of the University Archives Repository
Contact
Arizona State UniversityP.O. Box 871006
Tempe AZ 85287-1006 United States
(480) 965-4932
archives@asu.edu