Descriptive Record 
Enlarge Image1925-1929
1925
January: Moves to New York City
July: Registers play Meet the Mamma for copyright
Wins Opportunity magazine contest for short story, "Spunk," and play, "Color Struck"
Works for author Fannie Hurst
Enters Barnard College on scholarship
1926
Studies with anthropologist Franz Boas at Columbia University
1927
Receives Carter Woodson Association fellowship
Goes south to collect folklore
May 19: Marries Herbert Sheen, St. Augustine, Florida
Acquires patronage of Charlotte Osgood Mason
1928
January: Separates from Sheen
March: Moves to Polk County, Florida
May: Receives Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College
Goes to New Orleans to collect hoodoo folklore
1929
Revises folklore manuscript in Florida
Portrait of Fannie Hurst. Carl Van Vechten, photographer. March 16, 1938. From the Carl Van Vechten Photograph Collection.