Scope and Contents

Contains five hair keepsakes, including one braided piece and three tied with ribbon. All samples are black or dark brown in color.

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;...