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Statement on the death of May Garrettson Evans Statement by the Peabody Conservatory Alumni Association expressing gratitude and appreciation for May Garrettson Evans, founder of the Peabody Preparatory and co-founder of the Alumni Association. Prepared by Bertha Bassett (chair), Gustav Klemm, Louise Randolph, and Eliza McCalmont Woods.
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May Garrettson Evans Portrait photograph of May Garrettson Evans, founder and superintendent of the Peabody Preparatory.
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Peabody Preparatory faculty and staff, 1914 Peabody Preparatory Department faculty and staff celebrate the Preparatory's 20th anniversary. Seated (from left to right) are seven members of the original staff: Elizabeth Coulson, Lena Stiebler, Marion D. Evans, May G. Evans, Maud Randolph, Elisa McC. Woods, and Minna D. Hill. Second row: Mrs. F. D. Carpenter, Katherine Lucke, Elizabeth Albert, Henrietta Holthaus, Nettie Jones, Rose Gorfine, Virginia Blackhead, Susanna Warden, and Ethelind Ballard. Third row: Carlotta Heller, Marion Rous, Mabel Thomas, Louise Randolph, Berta Bassett, Franz Bornschein, Bertha Leary, Frederick Huber. Fourth row: Henrikka Whelan, Robert Paul, Annie Fredman, Grace Spofford, Lola Belle Jacobs, Lina de Rosset, Anne Hull, and Mrs. L. H. Engler. Fifth row: J. Norris Hering, Henrietta Baker Low, Louise Bonner, and Otto Ortmann. Edward Mumma Morris, Eleanor Case, and Israel Dorman (not pictured here) were also on the faculty at that time. Nettie Jones, Virginia C. Blackhead, and Franz Bornschein were the Preparatory's first graduates. Blackhead eventually succeeded May Evans as Director in 1929.
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Bessie Evans Photograph of Bessie Evans, head of the Peabody Preparatory Dance Department.
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Marion Dorsey Evans scrapbook page Collage of photographs of Marion Dorsey Evans, associate superintendent of the Peabody Preparatory and sister of May Garrettson Evans. Includes ode to Marion Evans by Maud Randolph, 1906.
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May Garrettson Evans photographs Two scrapbook pages of portrait photographs of May Garrettson Evans as a girl and young woman.
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May Garrettson Evans Photograph of May Garrettson Evans.
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Manuscript by Edgar Allan Poe Society on the death of May Garrettson Evans Manuscript note by the Edgar Allan Poe Society acknowledging the contributions of May Garrettson Evans in preserving Poe's home on Amity Street. Includes clipping from the Baltimore Sun, "Edgar Allan Poe's Home Here on Amity Street to Be Shrine."
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Facts About Mistake In Marking Original Burial Place Of Poe Article by May Garrettson Evans in the Baltimore Sun in 1920 about her research on the correct burial place of Edgar Allan Poe. Additional clippings include an article from the New York Times in 1893 about Poe's burial and an item from the Baltimore Sun in 1921 about the relocation of Poe's grave marker to its correct place.
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May Garrettson Evans Photograph by Hans Marx of May Garrettson Evans at age 80 in her home.
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Letter from Hans von Bülow to May Garrettson Evans Autograph letter from German conductor Hans von Bülow to May Garrettson Evans, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun.
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May Garrettson Evans at the Peabody Preparatory Two photographs of May Garrettson Evans, founder and superintendent of the Peabody Preparatory, in her office. Top image is of Evans in the office of the Peabody Graduates School on Centre Street in the 1890s. Bottom image is of Evans in the Preparatory office at 21 E. Mount Vernon Place in approximately 1915-1920.