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1870
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “D – S”.
1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “D – S”.
1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “D – W”.
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D. W. Burley was an American state legislator in Texas. He served in the Texas House of Representatives. He was in St. Louis during the American Civil War and moved to Texas after it. He was elected in 1870 and only lasted one term. He was born enslaved.…
1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “D – Y”.
1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “D133 – F357”.
1850s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA cased daguerrotype depicting a black boy holding a white male baby on his lap. The baby wears a dotted gown and has hair fashioned into ringlets. The boy wears a dark colored jacket with three bright buttons at the cuff and looks straight ahead at the…
ca. 1850
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA 1/9th plate daguerreotype portrait of Rhoda Phillips (1831-1906), a woman who was born enslaved and owned by the Clark-Gleaves family of Nashville, Tennessee, with whom she remained after emancipation. Phillips is seated in the image and wears a dress…
ca. 1860
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA daguerreotype of William Lloyd Garrison in a case. In the portrait, Garrison is wearing a suit and glasses and looking off to the left. The exterior of the case is black with gold trim. The interior has embossed red velvet on the left side and the…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Daily Journal" of business relating to complaints and paperwork, May–October 1867 (251), is arranged chronologically and has a name index.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume daily journal of complaints, February–September 1867 (113), is arranged chronologically.
June 18, 1838
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGIssue of Daily National Inelligencer, Vol. XXVI No. 7908, published June 18, 1838. On front page, third column at center is a small article titled [Capture of Slavers on the Coast of Africa] describing the work of the British brigantine Buzzard. During a…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Daily Record of Cotton Picked on the Carondolet Plantation," November–December 1863 (121), is arranged by month and thereunder by initial letter of the name of the cotton picker. The volume also contains accounts, 1864, arranged by name…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume daily register of patients, May–June 1867 (201), is arranged chronologically.
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Daina Ramey Berry is an American historian and academic who is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She was formerly the associate dean of the graduate school and chair of the history…
1883–1988
Daisy Turner (June 21, 1883 – February 8, 1988) was an American storyteller and poet. Born in Grafton, Vermont, to former slaves, she became famous late in life for her oral recordings of her family's history, which can be traced back to Africa and England.
2010
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGLow chair by Michael Puryear inspired by a West African design. The chair has a burnished graphite finish over the crafted wood to produce a silver metallic sheen. Small circular bars form the upper half of the chair. The top bar is curved with angled…
1800s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGMetal dance rattle with oval shaped hole in center. Sides of rattle have flattened pieces of metal that create little compartments. Inside these small spaces are small pebbles that make noise when the rattle is jostled. Attached at one side of rattle are…
1800s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGMetal dance rattle with oval shaped hole in center. Sides of rattle have flattened pieces of metal that create little compartments. Inside these small spaces are small pebbles that make noise when the rattle is jostled. Attached at one side of rattle are…
1800s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGMetal dance rattle with oval shaped hole in center. Sides of rattle have flattened pieces of metal that create little compartments. Inside these small spaces are small pebbles that make noise when the rattle is jostled. Attached at one side of rattle are…
Biography
Dandara (Portuguese: Dandara dos Palmares) (1654 – February 6, 1694 CE) was an Afro-Brazilian warrior of the colonial period of Brazil and was part of the Quilombo dos Palmares, a settlement of Afro-Brazilian people who freed themselves from enslavement,…
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Daniel Coker (1780–1846), born Isaac Wright, was an African American of mixed race from Baltimore, Maryland. Born a slave, after he gained his freedom, he became a Methodist minister in 1802. He wrote one of the few pamphlets published in the South that…
April 18, 1834
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal, issued by the Free Blacks of Saint Thomas, to commemorate the royal edict passed by Frederick VI on April 18, 1834. The medal is round, and bronze toned. The obverse of the medal is edged with thin a…
April 18, 1834
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Danish Free Black Citizenship Commemorative Medal, issued by the Free Blacks of Saint Thomas, to commemorate the royal edict passed by Frederick VI on April 18, 1834. The medal is round, and bronze toned. The obverse of the medal is edged with thin a…
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