Dear Mr Wilson, Many thanks for your message. Thanks to a previous message, I have managed to find three photographs of Susan Myra Kingsbury via the Ancestry.com site. I am grateful for that help and your advice. The reason for my interest in her work is contained in the pasted message below. With good wishes, Dr Christopher Thompson (Senior Research Fellow, Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham)Many thanks for your help regarding photographs of Susan Myra Kingsbury. I am most grateful. There is, however, a significant set of issues with her work on the records of the Virginia Company of London. Her Columbia Ph.D. thesis appears to have been published by the Library of Congress in 1905 as 'An Introduction to the Records of the Virginia Company of London' and was itself used verbatim as the introduction to Volume I of The Records of the Virginia Company of London. That volume also contained a list of the documents she had found relating to the affairs of the Company: it was published in the introduction to Volume 3 of The Records of the Virginia Company of London published by the Library of Congress in 1934. I infer from this evidence that, after her 1908 essay on comparing the Virginia Company to other English mercantile ventures, that she ceased studying the history of the colony and turned to the economic and sociological studies she later published. If I am right, this explains why she missed the bulk of the Ferrar Papers held at Magdalene College, Cambridge (recently transcribed by David Ransome) and the other material, e.g. in Huntingdon and the major U.K.repositories, that she had not seen on her visit to England in the first decade of the twentieth century. The first of these omissions was known by the mid-1930s as Wesley Frank Craven noted. But there are large areas of Virginia's early history that she missed, alas. Christopher Thompson Reply Reply All Forward
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From: Wilson, Donald L <[log in to unmask]>
To: VA-HIST <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 20:10
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Susan Myra Kingsbury 1870-1949
Mr. Thompson -
Newspapers.com does have some articles about Dr. Susan M. Kingsbury which appear to include portrait photographs, but are accessible only if you have a "Publisher's Extra Subscription" (which we don't have). For example:
Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 18, 1940, p. 16. "Dr. Susan M. Kingsbury, Professor Emeritus of Social Economy at Bryn Mawr College, President from 1936 until she ..." (the thumbnail looks like a portrait heads the article).
She seems to have been on a round of speaking engagements during the 1940s. You might want to try the Philadelphia public library for a copy of the article and picture.
The "Personal Family Trees" on Ancestry.com are probably your best source for photos of her. I count nine individual trees posted by relatives, most of which include a variety of photos of her. (I also found a photo of her attached to her 1921 passport application, also on Ancestry.) If you don't have your own subscription, you probably have access to that web site through your local public library. Many libraries have a subscription to Ancestry Library Edition, which you can use in-house.
If you want someone to send you a photo you'll need to provide an email address. This listserv only accepts text messages.
Donald L. Wilson, Virginiana Librarian
The Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center
for Genealogy and Local History (RELIC)
Prince William Public Library System
Bull Run Regional Library
8051 Ashton Avenue, Manassas, VA 20109-2892
703-792-4540
www.pwcgov.org/library/RELIC
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Sent: Monday, December 3, 2018 12:39 PM
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Subject: Re: Susan Myra Kingsbury 1870-1949
Many thanks for your message. I was not able to find a photograph of her anywhere unfortunately. i hope that someone will send me one.
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From: Connie Lapallo <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 17:16
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Susan Myra Kingsbury 1870-1949
Hello from Virginia,
I just searched Ancestry.com and found several photos of Dr. Kingsbury. (I have a subscription.) One is indeed her yearbook page from Bryn Mawr. I see at least one family photo of her ("Aunt Sue, taken in Florence, 1914). Her photo is included in at least one newspaper clipping posted. Family members have also attached her death certificate, obituary, and other items. Through Ancestry, you could reach out to family members who seem to have lovingly compiled mementos, documents, and photos of her. I hope that helps.
Newspapers.com probably also has photos of her. That is another go-to source for me.
What an impressive accomplishment she had with the Virginia Company Records. I've used her work for twenty years in my Jamestown research and have never thought to seek out a photo. Thanks for giving me the opportunity.
Best wishes,
Connie Lapallo
Author of the Jamestown Sky series
www.connielapallo.com
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