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28 October 1901
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
to Gen. Curtis Guild
Signed as President. Roosevelt writes that his "Southern policy" is to "take the best man white or black."
GLC02793.054
10 February 1909
Mosby, John S. (1833-1916)
to Sam Chapman
article about Lincoln in Cosmopolitan: "It is the best thing I have seen about Lincoln & confirms what I wrote you that Lincoln offered to the South compensation of their slaves when the Confederacy was in its last gasp & even then we rejected it."
GLC03921.25
1918 ca.
Eighth Illinois Regiment Now in France [half tone printed reproduction]
Black troops active in Europe during WWI. Two slightly different printed versions of the same photograph, one trimmed, and the other printed with a slightly grainer half-tone screen.
GLC07593
17 November 1910
Jenkins, James H. (b. 1841)
to Charles G. Stack
Promises that as soon as his health improves he will comply with the request to send a photograph. Some text lost on the right side of the letter.
GLC02484.02
4 June 1907
McCurtain, Green (fl. 1903-1908)
[Official Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations patent to freedman Morris Clark]
Serves as an official document issued 3 December 1904 providing for the allotment of land to freedmen within the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. This particular document allots 40 acres of land to Morris Clark. Partially printed; information...
GLC05340
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
1927
Mearns, Hughes, 1875-1965;
The Pamphlet Poets
One pamphlet entitled, "The Pamphlet Poets," dated 1927. Contains poems by Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Jean Toomer. Includes an introduction by Alain Locke.
GLC09640.251
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
circa 1901
Book and newspaper clipping [Decimalized .01-.02]
GLC06126
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