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1902
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
The anti-slavery papers of James Russell Lowell.
First edition. No. 141 of a Limited edition of 525 copies. Uncut and unopened. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company.
GLC00267.013
1927
Dow, George F. (1868-1936)
Slave ships and slaving
With an introduction by Captain Ernest H. Pentecost. Published by the Marine Research Society, Salem, Massachusetts.
GLC00267.039
1918
Phillips, Ulrich B. (1877-1934)
American negro slavery: a survey of the supply, employment and control of negro labor as determined by the plantation regime
Published by D. Appleton and Co, New York, London. Once the definitive and apologetic account of slavery impeding innovation. Phillips was a Professor of American History at the University of Michigan.
GLC00267.084
1910
Nieboer, H. J. (1873-1920)
Slavery as an industrial system; ethnological researches, by Dr. H. J. Nieboer
Second edition. Geared towards world-wide survey of slavery. Published by Martinus Nijhoff, the Hague.
GLC00267.086
1919
Renesch Company, (fl. 1919)
True Blue
"Uplift" poster sold to African American families with relatives in the service during World War I. This poster features a family with a young girl, a young boy, a baby and the wife, looking at a fireplace and mantle. Above the mantle is a picture of...
GLC09644
Various
[Items related to Booker T. Washington, 1902] [Decimalized .01- .02]
Collection of items belonging to Booker T. Washington dated 1902. Consists of two items; a postcard and a stereocard of Washington with guests on the steps of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
GLC09726
1903
Haskell, W. L., (fl. 1903)
[Two variations of the classic uplift poster, "Onward"] [Decimalized .01-.02]
Two variations of the classic uplift poster, "Onward" created by W.L. Haskell. They feature portraits of Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois, Matilda Sissieretta Joyner-Jones, Hightower Theodore Kealing, Wilford Horace Smith, Abraham Lincoln...
GLC09736
1923
Unknown
The Vacation Reading Club
A diploma issued to "Leroy" Williams for completing the Vacation Reading Course for the summer of 1923.
GLC09587.001
23 February 1916
To Clerk of Circuit Court Prince Edward County, dr.
Check for $2.75 signed by J.H Harvey in payment to the Clerk of Circuit Court Prince Edward County for recording a deed and for the tax on the deed. Also signed by Jackson Glaze (the other party involved in the land deed) and the clerk (illegible)...
GLC09587.375
25 May 1914
Harvey, J. H.
[J. H. Harvey's will]
The last will and testament of J. H. Harvey, Nannie Harvey's husband and Cordelia Williams' uncle. He bequeaths all of his property to Nannie, appointing her executrix of his will. He bequeaths some additional land to their daughter, Aleas M. Snead...
GLC09587.387
Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Prince Edward County
[Land deed between Jackson Glaze and J. H. Harvey]
A land deed between Jackson Glaze and J. H. Harvey stating that Glaze sold Harvey a portion of land in Farmville, Virginia for $220. It is signed by Jackson Glaze, A. M. M. Fallwell, and Horace Adams. The deed was folded in fourths and attached to a...
GLC09587.388
1916
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute Tuskegee Intstitute, Alabama A School Located in the "Black Belt" of the South
Tuskegee Institute information pamphlet with donation pledge form attached. The pamphlet is broken into 5 parts named; What Tuskegee Stands For, What Tuskegee Has Done, What Tuskegee is and Teaches, What Tuskegee Needs, A Special Need. The first...
GLC09616
2 March 1904
Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908)
to Walter Harris
Replies to Harris letter, written and signed 1 March 1904, inquiring if Cleveland "entertained a negro, C.H.J. Taylor, of Kansas, at dinner" at the White House during his presidency. He heard the information in a speech given on the floor of the...
GLC08931
1894
Democratic party. Georgia.
Colored Voters Read
One broadside entitled, "Colored Voters Read," dated 1894 printed by Georgia's Democratic Party. Asks the question, "What Evidence have the Negroes of this State that Schools will be provided for their Children in case the Third Party gets into...
GLC09000
circa 1918
Dixie Editors Fear Dry Force Bill Will Lead to Negro Controls in South; Destroys States Rights
Prohibition broadside railing against the prospect of prohibition, because it opens the door to northern infringement upon southern whites. "[The fourteenth] amendment gives to Congress the power to force upon the South a vote for the negro - and a...
GLC09079
Gustrine, Charles (fl. 1918)
True Sons of Freedom
True Sons of Freedom broadside by Charles Gustrine, Chicago, Illinois. Depicts a regiment of African American soldiers gallantly assaulting a line of Germans with the spirit of Abraham Lincoln looking on approvingly.
GLC09121
25 February 1903
Hearst, William R. (1863-1951)
Let the South Alone, Mr. Roosevelt
Author is upset at Roosevelt's attempts to put blacks in office in the South. He says Roosevelt has only succeeded in widening the gap between blacks and whites and should stay out of the South. Second page includes advertisements and portions of...
GLC02691.12.11
circa 1915
Edwards, Jack (fl. ca.1915)
[Instructions for house managers for the showing of David W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation"]
Contains spaces for house managers to fill in information, including performance or film dates, company arrival and departure times, and manager names. Jack Edwards, a Southern Representative of the performance or film, instructs theater house...
GLC05091
26 March 1911
Parsons, Luke F. (1833-1926)
to J. E. Boos
Reminiscences about John Brown by a former follower. Gives a physical description of Brown, and discusses Brown's conviction to always fight for what was right. "He said the Lord had created him to be the deliverer of the slaves from bondage, the...
GLC03227
31 December 1921
Moton, Robert Russa (1867-1940)
to unknown
Moton, President of the Tuskegee Institute, reports on "[t]he lynching record for 1921," based on the research of Monroe N. Work, in charge of the Department of Records and Research at the Institute. States that in 1921, "...there were 72 instances...
GLC06068
1905
Floyd, Silas Xavier (1869-1923)
Floyd's flowers or duty and beauty for colored children
Full title as stated on title page is "Floyd's flowers or duty and beauty for colored children being one hundred short stories gleaned from the storehouse of human knowledge and experience." Published by Hertel, Jenkins & Co. Contains a stamp of...
GLC06119
27 November 1919
Grimké, Francis J. (Francis James) (1850-1937)
The race problem, as it respects colored people and the Christian Church, in the light of the developments of the last year.
Signed on title page by C.G. Neall. Reverend Grimke, the son of a wealthy white planter and a slave, delivers a discourse at a Thanksgiving service held at the Plymouth Congregational Church in an unspecified city. Examines the unrest following...
GLC06122
circa 1901
Book and newspaper clipping [Decimalized .01-.02]
GLC06126
Beeby, Frank Leon (b. 1859)
Ain't it strange
Contains a poem possibly printed within a Pennsylvania newspaper. Poem was contributed to the paper by Beeby, from Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. On verso, clipping includes a reference to Market Street. Previously contained within GLC06126.01.
GLC06126.02
Jamieson, J. A. (fl. 1919)
Complete history of the colored soldiers in the world war: Authentic story of the greatest war of civilized times and what the colored man did to uphold democracy and liberty.
Signed by Sergeant J. A. Jamieson. With a forward by Sergeant John A. Jamieson, Sergeant G. I. Williams, Corporal H. White, Private Jack Allen, and Private John Graham. In the introduction, these men declare that they "the undersigned, 'Colored Boys...
GLC06129
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