| Title | Date Created | Description | Subject | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Mattiwilda Dobbs, First Negro Lead at Met, Scores in 'Rigoletto,'" November 10, 1956 | 1956-11-10 | Photocopy of newspaper clippings announcing the debut performance of Mattiwilda Dobbs at the Metropolitan opera. | African American singers, African American women, African American pioneers | Elizabeth and Irvin McDuffie Papers |
| "Soprano Dobbs Weds Swedish Journalist", circa 1957 | 1952/1962 | Photocopy of a newspaper clipping announcing the marriage of Mattiwilda Dobbs and Bengt Janzon. | African American singers, African American women | Elizabeth and Irvin McDuffie Papers |
| Madam Lillian Evanti Program, February 9, 1934 | 1934-02-09 | A program for an event held at the White House featuring the singer Lillian Evanti. | African American singers, African American women | Elizabeth and Irvin McDuffie Papers |
| Marian Anderson, circa 1935 | 1930/1940 | Portrait of Marian Anderson. | African American women, African American singers, Portraits and people | 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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