Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University Manuscript Division Finding Aids Finding Aids 10-1-2015 REYNOLDS, Anita Thompson Dickinson MSRC Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/finaid_manu Recommended Citation Staff, MSRC, "REYNOLDS, Anita Thompson Dickinson" (2015). Manuscript Division Finding Aids. 166. https://dh.howard.edu/finaid_manu/166 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Finding Aids at Digital Howard @ Howard University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Manuscript Division Finding Aids by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ANITA THOMPSON DICKINSON REYNOLDS COLLECTION Collection 129-1 to 129-18 Prepared by: Greta S. Wilson and Karen L. Jefferson January 1984 MANUSCRIPT DIVISION Scope Note Anita Thompson Dickinson Reynolds was a psychologist, teacher, art instructor, actress, dancer, and model. She lived and studied in Europe during the early 1930s and 1940s. Later, in the 1950s, she moved to the Virgin Islands, where she resided until her death in 1980. In the Virgin Islands, she served as manager of the Virgin Islands Employment Service, and was also an instructor of psychology at the College of the Virgin Islands until her retirement in 1976. This collection was donated by Mrs. Reynolds' maternal cousin, Professor Otey Scruggs. The collection measures 8½ linear feet and spans the years 1850-1980. Included in the collection are diaries, correspondence, programs, invitations, photographs, background information on writings by Mrs. Reynolds, artifacts from her modeling career and activities in support of the U.S. efforts in World War II, and memorabilia related to some of Mrs.