There is an alumni file for Vertner Tandy at Cornell University where he studied and he is mentioned in Part & Apart: The African American Experience at Cornell 1865-1940.
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Carol Kammen
Tompkins County Historian
On Feb 12, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Anastsasia Pratt wrote:

> One of my students is working on a project about Madame C.J. Walker and her last home, Villa Lewaro, which is in Irvington, NY.  She is having great difficulty finding primary source materials (letters, diaries, inventories, photographs, architectural plans, etc).  Does anybody have advice to offer?  Any ideas about where she might find materials related either to Walker or to the house's architect, Vertner Tandy?
> 
> Thanks,
> Anastasia
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