Abstract The Olivia Johns Rice Collection comprises 660 items housed in five boxes and documents the personal, professional, familial, and community life of Olivia Johns Rice and members of the Johns, Rice, and Hazard families from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. The collection includes extensive correspondence; legal, financial, and educational records; church membership materials; agricultural and household documents; personal identification papers; printed ephemera;...

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Various receipts and checks regarding shipping items via the Atlantic Coast Railroad Company, a mortgage paid to Peyton R. Hazard, and a letter from Dr. Mary Putnam regarding payment for the care of her property in Jamestown. It also includes a certificate of guarantee for a sewing machine purchased by Olivia Johns Rice in 1916.

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A biography of poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar, written by Olivia Johns Rice for a class assignment. Facts explaining the paper from a previous archivist are also included in the file.

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The correspondence includes letters exchanged with members of the Johns and Rice families, particularly her father, Rev. Redding B. Johns, and with Peyton R. Hazard regarding the management of his summer home. Several letters are addressed to Frank H. C. Rice. Also included is a copy of a letter sent to Olivia Johns Rice from W. E. B. Du Bois.

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Contains newspaper clippings dated 1945–1966 from various newspapers including New York Daily News and The Afro-American about various events regarding Olivia Johns Rice, Reverend John Rice, Peyton R. Hazard, and Kelly Miller, dean of Howard University's College of Arts and Sciences (1907-1918) two copies of riddles written by Isaac Rice Sr.