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Marjean Phillips Packard Collection, 1901, 1940s

 

Summary

Extent:
2 Boxes Textile items
1 Folder 6 photographs of the 1947 hurricane and flood
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Marjean Phillips Packard Collection (BCHA-1996.36), Broward County Historical Archives, Broward County Library.

Background

Scope and content:

The Marjean Phillips Packard Collection contains 6 photographs of the 1947 hurricane and flooding around buildings such as Walgreens, Sinclair, and the Broward Fruit Company, and a picture of people floating in a raft down the street. The collection also contains three textile items. The first is Charles E. Packard's Boy Scouts unform, 1940 (Mr. L. G. Knapp Leader) and Boy Scouts garrison cap. The second is Marjean Packard's 1940s Girl Scouts Leader's uniform a two-piece uniform of a shirt and skirt, both are made of a green and white woven fabric, left shoulder has a patch embroidered with the Girls Scouts of USA) with a photograph of Marjean Packard in the uniform. The third is Nancy Ann Johnson-Phillips' November 3, 1901 wedding dress bodice, which is black with cream piping, "My Mother's Wedding dress".

Biographical / historical:

Marjean Phillips was born to Harley and Nancy Phillips. She moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1938, and was the principal of Pine Crest Elementary School and a member of the First Presbyterian Church. She married Charles A. Packard and her son was Charles E. Packard. She passed away in Fort Lauderdale on May 24, 2002 at the age of 99.

Processing information:

This collection received container level processing. This finding aid may be updated to reflect new descriptions as well as acquisitions to the collection.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The Marjean Phillips Packard Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

Marjean Phillips Packard Collection (BCHA-1996.36), Broward County Historical Archives, Broward County Library.

Location of this collection:
Broward County Historical Archives, Broward County Library
100 S. Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale
FL
33301
USA