Personal Papers
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Wise, Brownie Humphrey, 1913-1991
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content: Brownie Wise Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1928-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0509, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 1: Personal Papers, circa 1928-1968. A scrapbook touches on her life as a girl in the 1920s.  Souvenir photographs of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exhibition at which she met her future husband, letterhead of his Detroit business, travel postcards, war ration books, income tax returns and a scrapbook chronicling her writings under the penname Hibiscus for the Detroit News, give a glimpse into her life during the late 1930s and early 1940s.  For the 1950s, there are records of taxes and household expenses.  The collection also includes some of her 1940s and 1950s dress patterns; as a woman in the public eye, Wise's trim figure and fashionable attire were much discussed.