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Box 12

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Series 5. Personal Papers and Artifacts (Boxes 5-6, 8-9, 11-12, 17-18), ca. 1800s-2020

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes family photographs, scrapbooks, Katherine Johnson's math tools and math book, and a Barbie doll of Katherine Johnson, among other items.

Dates: ca. 1800s-2020
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Katherine G. Johnson, Mathematician, Papers

A Manual of Mathematics book, 1917

 File — Box: 12
Dates: 1917
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Katherine G. Johnson, Mathematician, Papers / Series 5. Personal Papers and Artifacts (Boxes 5-6, 8-9, 11-12, 17-18)

Katherine Johnson's parents' bible, 1902

 File — Box: 12
Dates: 1902
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Katherine G. Johnson, Mathematician, Papers / Series 5. Personal Papers and Artifacts (Boxes 5-6, 8-9, 11-12, 17-18)

Ledger book, ca. 1800s

 File — Box: 12
Scope and Contents

Includes handwritten math textbook in the ledger for a business (possibly a pharmacy) owned by an ancestor of Katherine Johnson (likely Thomas H. Lowe) and several documents found inside the ledger, such as letters and a handwritten story. Other names listed in this material include Abraham North Lowe and Lee Lowe.

Dates: ca. 1800s
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Katherine G. Johnson, Mathematician, Papers / Series 5. Personal Papers and Artifacts (Boxes 5-6, 8-9, 11-12, 17-18)