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03 July 1914
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
Pardon of Albert Holtzman of West Virginia for white slavery and kidnapping women for the purpose of prostitution.
Partly printed document. (c/s J.C.McReynolds [Attorney General])
GLC00045.39
08 July 1914
Finch, James A. (fl. 1914)
Warrant for Commutation of Sentence of Albert Holtzman
Warrant, signed by Pardon Attorney James A. Finch. Albert Holtzman of West Virginia was convicted of violating the Slave Trade Traffic Act. Pardoned after serving three months of his six month sentence. Prosecuted for white slavery and kidnapping...
GLC00045.39.01
1901
Kletzing, Henry F. (b. 1850)
Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American...
Full title is: "Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust." Published by J. L. Nichols & Co. Co...
GLC06126.01
25 February 1909
Mosby, John S. (1833-1916)
to Alexander Spottswood Campbell
Spottswood was possibly Mosby's grandson (son of daughter May Virginia Campbell and Robert Campbell). Typed on Department of Justice stationery with the printed heading, "Carbon copy for the file". Transmits a clipping from the Times-Dispatch on an...
GLC05738
circa 1910
Unknown
Uncle Tom's Cabin
J. H. J. Ronner announces a play by Harkins and Barbour of Uncle Tom's Cabin with 200 people in the cast. Boosts, "Cotton pickers, dancers, jubilee singers, Mississippi steamboat." "Scenically the most mammoth production of modern times." At the...
GLC05508.013.01
1915
Matthews, Essie Collins (fl. 1915)
Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and others
Title continues, "Character Studies Among the Old Slaves of the South, Fifty Years After." First edition published by Champlin Press. Has photographs of freed slaves after Reconstruction. Contains an advertisement for this book.
GLC05641
circa 1915
Sweeney, J. D. (b. 1869)
[Photograph of house of John Brown's widow]
Photograph of the house of John Brown's widow in California. Photograph taken by T. Major Edgecomb. Docket on verso in green ink states "After the execution of John Brown, his widow and several of her young children came to Red Bluff. Citizens...
GLC06806.02.02
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