Biographical Information

Martha Willis Coulling was born in 1866 in Richmond, Virginia. She graduated from State Female Normal School in Nashville, Tennessee (now Peabody College) in 1886. In 1887, Coulling accepted a teaching position at State Female Normal School in Farmville, Virginia where she taught drawing and Latin until her retirement in 1942. This scrapbook compiled by the June class of 1894, was presented to Martha Coulling in celebration of her 50 year anniversary teaching at [State Teachers College].

Provenance

It is unknown when, or by what means this collection was acquired by the Greenwood Library Archives.

Scope and Content

This scrapbook, compiled in 1937, contains 154 notes and letters written to Martha Willis Coulling on the occasion of her 50^th anniversary of teaching at State Teachers College.

Size

This collection consists of  1.0 linear feet contained in (1) archival flat box.

Notes

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