Sue Alice Smither, Photograph - Page 39 and 40
Scope and Contents
The May Benson Lyle Scrapbook contains Fifty-six (front and back) unnumbered pages with forty-nine black and white photographs (one each on the front and back covers of the scrapbook) recording May Benson Lyle's time as a student at Sam Houston Normal Institute from 1905-1908.
The images in the scrapbook are of campus buildings such as Austin Hall, Old Main Building, and the Peabody Memorial Library. There are also images of faculty members such as Ida Lawrence, Sue Smither, Professor Coleman, Professor Henry Fishburne Estill, Joseph (Joe) Pritchett, and his brother President Henry Carr Pritchett. Additional images show May Benson Lyle and her friends at the boarding house they lived in while attending Sam Houston Normal Institute.
Dates
- Creation: 1905 - 1908
Biographical / Historical
Sue Alice Smither was born in Huntsville, Texas, on September 17, 1863, to William Brooks Smither and Alice Leona Keenan.
Sue received her beginning education from her aunt, Juliett Ella Smither, who ran her own private school in Huntsville. Later, she attended Andrew Female College in Huntsville, Texas, and Sam Houston Normal Institute, where she graduated in 1881.
Afterward, she taught mathematics at the Coronal Institue, San Marcos, and the Waco Female College. In 1892, she was elected as an assistant in mathematics at SHNI. She held this position until 1909, when she married James Edgar Allen on July 8th.
Sue Alice Smither died on February 16, 1928, and is buried in Huntsville, Texas.
Extent
1 Photographic Prints : Black and white photograph. Writing in black ink. Pencil markings.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
Page 39: Black and white photograph of Sue Alice Smither, a faculty member at SHNI, sitting on the porch steps of a brick building. Underneath the photograph in stylized writing is '"Miss Sue.?( )!!?!!!!!?" ' with an arrow connecting one of the question marks to the name Sue in black ink. There are pencil markings across the photograph.
Page 40: Blank
Repository Details
Part of the Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives Repository