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Carl Van Vechten memorial collection of arts and letters
Collection
Identifier: MS-91
Scope and Contents
Photographs, sheet music, playbills, prints, publications, sound recordings, programs, souvenir books, correspondence, drawings, broadsides, articles, ephemera, manuscripts, and journal issues relating to the theater, music, dance, and literature. Although not limited to materials related to African American artists and their works, the collection includes a large number of materials documenting African American artistic endeavors during the early and mid-twentieth century. The collection...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1880-; Other: Date acquired: 04/09/1986
Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association records
Collection — Box: Box 1
Identifier: 003-MS 43
Scope and Contents
Records. Contains correspondence, school records and ephemera sent from teachers of the 7th District of the American Freedmen's Aid Commission and Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association to District Superintendent Jacob W. Shoemaker between Apr. 2 and Sept. 12, 1866. Includes program and admission ticket to an exhibition of Camp Davis Colored School (2 items), financial statements (16 items), monthly teacher reports (4 items), and a report from all 26 schools, containing name of school,...
Dates:
1866
Slavery & abolition in the US: select publications of the 1800s
Collection
Identifier: Digital-E441
Scope and Contents
Slavery and Abolition in the US is a digital collection of books and pamphlets that reflect the varying opinions and beliefs expressed on the slavery issue throughout the nineteenth century. The works in this collection reflect arguments on both sides of the slavery debate and include first person narratives, legal proceedings and decisions, anti-slavery tracts, religious sermons, and secondary works. The collection spans from 1787 to 1911 with the greatest concentration of materials...
Dates:
Publication: 1787-1920
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- Subject: African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877. X
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- Manuscripts 2
- African American authors -- Portraits. 1
- African American entertainers -- Portraits. 1
- African American periodicals. 1
- African Americans 1
- African Americans -- Civil Rights 1
- African Americans -- History -- To 1863. 1
- African Americans -- Portraits. 1
- African Americans -- Songs and music. 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States. 1
- Artists -- United States -- Portraits. 1
- Authors, American -- Portraits. 1
- Blues (Music) 1
- Dance music. 1
- Entertainers -- United States -- Portraits. 1
- Freedmen -- Virginia. 1
- Music -- United States -- 20th century. 1
- Musical films -- Lead sheets. 1
- Musicals -- Lead sheets. 1
- Patriotic music -- United States -- Lead sheets. 1
- Popular music -- United States. 1
- Popular music --- United States -- Lead sheets. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Virginia. 1
- Schools -- Virginia -- Records and correspondence. 1
- Slave bills of sale. 1
- Slavery -- United States -- Personal narratives. 1
- Slavery -- United States -- Sources. 1
- Slavery -- United States. 1
- Underground Railroad. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Songs and music. 1 ∧ less
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- American Freedmen's Aid Commission. -- Eastern Dept. 1
- Kellner, Bruce. 1
- Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association. 1
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. 1
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