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1922-1940
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Documents related to the NAACP [Decimalized .01-.08.02]
Created in New York, New York and Chicago, Illinois.
GLC06135
January 1923
National Associaton for the Advancement of Colored People
13th annual report NAACP for the year 1922
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1923, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states that the NAACP "has continued to carry out one of its most vital purposes, that of keeping intensely alive among the colored people of America the...
GLC06135.01
January 1924
14th annual report NAACP for the year 1923
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1924, including President Moorfield Storey. An introductory letter from Storey asks for financial support from readers of the pamphlet. Foreword states that the NAACP "is striving; it is striving to vindicate...
GLC06135.02
January 1927
17th annual report NAACP for the year 1926
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1927, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states "More and more, has it been borne in upon the Association that for the present the avenue to affirmation and defense of the Negro's fundamental rights...
GLC06135.03
January 1929
19th annual report NAACP for the year 1928
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword commemorates twenty years of NAACP activity. Reports on legal cases such as that of Robert Bell and Grady Swain, two boys sentenced to death on a flimsy...
GLC06135.04
1924/07/07
Medal
Medal inscribed "John H Hilldring, Capt. Inf. D O L. USA" on recto; "Elected Honorary Life Member, 144th Inf, July 7 1924" on verso.
GLC06196.134
1920/01/06
Certificate.
Certificate of provisional appointment to the rank of 1st Lieutenant.
GLC06196.242
1922/05/27
Regular Army Infantry School (Fort Benning, Ga.) Certificate for completion of the company officers course.
GLC06196.243
1924
Levine, Louis (fl. 1924)
The Women's garment workers: A History of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
First edition with half-tone photographs and appendices. Published by B. W. Huebsch.
GLC06224
4 August 1921 to December 1924
Terk, R. (fl. 1921-1924)
From Sandbar to Forbay over the Stanislaus Flume
Small photo scrapbook stamped "Photographs" on front cover. Photographs and manuscript narrative pasted on black paper. The pictures depict railroad, wilderness, timber, logging and other scenery. There is a skinned page at the end of the book...
GLC06062
circa 1920
Callaway, James (fl. 1920)
[Character of Robert E. Lee defamed by Susan B. Anthony...].
A response to Anthony's accusation in her History of Woman Suffrage that Robert E. Lee banished his youngest daughter, Annie Carter Lee (1839-1862) during the Civil War because of her Unionist sentiments. The author explains that Lee protected his...
GLC06073
19 November 1923
McCarter, H.C. (b. 1893)
[Treasury Department Prescription Blank - National Prohibition Act]
Prescription for Ira Altman of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, for "Sp[iritus] Frumenti" (alcohol) issued by Dr. McCarter. Treasury Dept. US Internal Revenue B 38246 / Blank no. 57. Watermarked "Prohibition."
GLC06097
circa 1928
Collection of three items related to Thomas Edison and agriculture [Decimalized .01-.03]
GLC05791
circa February 1928
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931)
[Interview responses about experiments to grow rubber plants in the United States]
A series of questions typed on the back of stationery from the Hotel Royal Palm, in Fort Meyers, Florida, with answers written by Edison in pencil. Most questions concern his experiments in trying to find alternative plant sources for rubber. Other...
GLC05791.01
20 February 1928
[Telegram to Wheeler McMillan]
Western Union telegram sent from Edison in Fort Meyers, Florida, to McMillan with the following information, "Farm and Fireside 250 Park Ave New York NY." Edison ends with, "Will see you anytime - T A Edison."
GLC05791.02
McMillan, Wheeler (b. 1893)
[Write up of an interview with Thomas Edison on agriculture and rubber production]
Manuscript written after McMillan interviewed Edison on his new interest in agriculture. Describes how Edison became interested in farming and includes quotes from Edison. Also discusses Edison's experiments in manufacturing rubber. Contains some...
GLC05791.03
circa 1925
Ku Klux Klan
The Klan in action leadership responsibilites organization methods: a manual of leadership for officers of local klans.
Published by American Printing & Manufacturing Company. Contains detailed instructions on leadership, Klan policies, and local Klan organization for officers. Begins by stating "The one human quality which, more than any other, makes a man stand...
GLC05930
1924/02/26
Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
to Mr. Rankin re: being arrested in San Pedro, CA for reading U.S. Constitution
GLC07599
1917-1982
Southern, Neta Snook (1896-1991)
Archive of Neta Snook [Southern] [Decimalized .01- .08]
The archive includes a letter written by Amelia Earhart, two personal diaries, a signed copy of Snook Southern's book "I Taught Amelia to Fly", photographs, airplane blueprints, personal papers.
GLC07243
26 January 1929
Earhart, Amelia (1897-1937)
to Neta Snook Southern
Typed on "Hearst's International" letterhead. Writing as aviation editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, Earhart reminisces the days when she flew with Snook Southern.
GLC07243.001
1920 ca.
Unknown
[Photograph of Neta Snook with airplane]
Image of Neta Snook as a young woman in flight clothing.
GLC07243.006.03
[Photographs of Neta Snook and others]
The photographs are mounted on a black photo album page on both sides. The recto has five photographs containing images of Neta Snook with her dog Cam, Snook's Canuck airplane, and possibly employees of Goodyear field in Ames, Iowa. The verso of...
GLC07243.006.04
[Photographs of Neta Snook and unknown man]
Image of Neta Snook holding a bouquet of sunflowers accompanied by an unknown man.
GLC07243.006.05
1927
Mother Curtiss
A black and white photocopy of a photograph containing an image of Neta Snook and an unknown man. Title from verso.
GLC07243.006.06
10 October 1922
Taft, William H. (1857-1930)
To George Lorimer
Disputes with Theodore Roosevelt
GLC08052
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