| Title | Date Created | Description | Subject | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loretta Clotilde and Clinton Bernard, 1956 | 1956 | Portrait of Loretta Clotilde holding Clinton Bernard. Written on verso: To Grandma Duffy from Loretta Clotilde (3) and Clinton Bernard (1), 1956. | African American children, African American families | Elizabeth and Irvin McDuffie Papers |
| "DePriest Fifteen" Annual Barbeque, July 6, 1940 | 1940-07-06 | A group of men stand outside of a house. Written on recto: "Depriest Fifteen" Annual Barbecue July 6 '40. | African American men, Portraits and people, African American families | Elizabeth and Irvin McDuffie Papers |
| Correspondence from Hazel Dixon Payne, circa 1944 | 1939/1949 | A Mother's Day card from Hazel Payne to her mother. | African American women, Nursing, African American families | Elizabeth and Irvin McDuffie Papers |
| Correspondence from Hazel Dixon Payne, circa 1942 | 1937/1947 | A letter from Hazel Payne to her mother regarding insurance paperwork. | African American women, Nursing, African American families | Elizabeth and Irvin McDuffie Papers |
| Correspondence from Sarah [Stanfield?] to Elizabeth McDuffie, circa 1941 | 1936/1946 | A letter from Sarah to her children. | African American families, African American women, Household employees | Elizabeth and Irvin McDuffie Papers |
| Postcard of Maud and Her Son, circa 1905 | 1900/1910 | Portrait of a woman wearing a dark dress seated next to a young boy in a light suit. Written on verso: Maud and her little boy he is [?] years old. | African American children, African American families | Elizabeth and Irvin McDuffie Papers |
Nov 21, 2022
Elizabeth and Irvin McDuffie Papers
Irvin "Mac" Henry McDuffie and his wife Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hall McDuffie were domestics in their hometown of Atlanta and later in the employ of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his presidency. Born in Elberton, Georgia, Irvin moved to Atlanta to be a barber and eventually manage the McDuffie-Herndon Barbershop financed by Alonzo Herndon of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. Upon the recommendation of a customer, Roosevelt interviewed McDuffie to be his valet at his retreat at Warm Springs, Georgia. McDuffie continued on with Roosevelt through his governorship in New York and his presidency, until McDuffie suffered a nervous breakdown in 1939. Elizabeth worked for 23 years as a maid with the prominent Atlanta family of Edward H. Inman. In 1933 she moved to Washington, D.C. to join her husband and became a maid in the White House where she remained until Roosevelt's death in 1945.
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