Biographical Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Thomas, Alma (1891-1978)
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content: Alma Thomas papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1911-2001
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.thomalma, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been scanned in entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes awards, biographical accounts, chronologies of Thomas's life and career, guest books from two unidentified events, identity cards, Thomas's death certificate, and a sketch, clippings, and playbills relating to Thomas's painting of Pearl Bailey in Hello Dolly for Scott Kirkpatrick. Also found is an audio recording produced by Guidance Associates to accompany an educational filmstrip from their Profiles of Black Achievement series, in which Thomas provides an autobiographical account.

Records relating to Thomas's education include scattered programs and other printed material; report cards relating to her high school and college education; and letters, a notebook, printed material, an illustrated diploma, and Thomas's sketch of a skeleton marionette, documenting her participation in Tony Sarg's marionette class in 1934. 

Thomas's teaching career is briefly documented through school employment and promotion records; teacher rating sheets from her career at Shaw Junior High School; clippings and photographs recording her work at the Thomas Garrett Settlement in Wilmington, Delaware; and Thomas's passport, receipts, notes, and printed material from a study abroad trip which she took as a professional development opportunity offered by Temple University, in 1958.

At the end of the series is a group of files related to Thomas's younger sister, J. Maurice Thomas.