Object Details
- Collection Collector
- Whitehead, Henry Preston, 1917-2002
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- Henry P. Whitehead collection
- Biographical / Historical
- Elizabeth Berry Delaney (b. September 13, 1882 – d. February 17 1964) a funeral home owner and operator and organization leader and clubwoman. Delaney married John W. Delaney on April 28, 1898. Their only child John W. Delaney Jr. was born in 1912. Delaney acquired a mortician's license in 1919 to help run her husband's funeral home business in Covington, Kentucky. After her husbands death Elizabeth became the sole owner of the funeral home and continued it's operation for nearly 40 years. Once her son joined the business the home was renamed E. B. Delaney and Son Funeral Home. The funeral expanded a second home in Cincinnati. Elizabeth was one of the first women to serve on the Board of Directors of the National Negro Business League and was an active member of the National Association of the Black Funeral Home Directors. Elizabeth was an active member in the State and Local Federation of Colored Women. In 1926 Delaney was elected the 11th president of the Federation of Colored Women club of Kentucky. Delaney was instrumental in establishing several chapters of the Order of Eastern Star and other civic organizations throughout northern Kentucky.
- Extent
- 1.4 Linear feet (Box 177, 178, OV 176)
- Date
- 1874- 1973
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Identifier
- ACMA.06-042, Series 4
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Henry P. Whitehead collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Michael A. Watkins.
- Arrangement
- This series is divided into six subseries. 4.1 Grand Oder of Odd Fellow of Kentucky 4.2 Order Eastern Star Kentucky 4.3 State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs of Kentucky 4.4 National Association of Colored Women 4.5 Printed Material 4.6 Photographs
- Collection Rights
- The Henry P. Whitehead collection is the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503511500367-1503511500520-3
