This letter from the Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa asks readers to call their state representatives, senators and President Gerald Ford to demand the United States not to relax restrictions on bank transactions with South Africa. The letterhead at…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.97.27.10
This letter from the Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa asks readers to call their state representatives, senators and President Gerald Ford to demand the United States not to relax restrictions on bank transactions with South Africa. The letterhead at…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.97.27.9
This handwritten one page, double-sided document is a business letter written to a Mrs. Wintonne. It appears to pertain to the procurement of whips, a bonnet and other personal effects from Baltimore. It appears that the writer was the agent in charge of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.104.40
Letter from Samuel Handy in Snow Hill, Maryland to Rev. James Smylie regarding the potential for the latter to purchase enslaved persons for removal to Natchez, Mississippi. Letter is black ink on folded paper; paper was folded into its own envelope and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.28.7
This letter was written on July 10, 1908, by Julia Jordan from Darlington Heights, Virginia, to her cousin G. Henry Womack. Julia writes a brief note stating that she will write more in September and wishes Womack well and that he will write her soon in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.63.102.38
This is a personal letter from Mary Jane Hale Welles to her husband Gideon Welles. The bifolio letter has a narrow black border around the front page. The letter is dated at the top [Bellfonte 15 Aug.] and begins [My dear Husband / This is Saturday / very…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.35.2.5
This letter was written on January 20, 1910, by Nelson Jordan from Farmville, Virginia, to his daughter Julia Womack. In the letter he gives detailed news of various family members and speaks of his faithfulness to God though he is advanced in age and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.63.102.36
This letter (.1) and envelope (.2) are correspondence written by Nelson Jordan, from Farmville, Virginia, to his daughter Julia Womack of Pasadena, California. The letter is in regards to a bank draft and notice that it will be arriving every ninety days…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.63.102.35.1-.2
This is a personal letter from Gideon Welles to his son Thomas. This is a bifolio letter written in dark ink on off-white colored paper. The letter is dated at the top right:[Washington / 5th March 1865] and begins [My Dear Tom]. The letter's text fills…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.35.2.6
This letter was written on April 7, 1915 by Thomas Womack from Darlington Heights, Virginia, to Julia Womack in Washington, D.C. The letter wishes Julia better health as she was recently ill, and mentions a matter that Thomas would like to discuss so they…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.63.102.34.1-.2
A letter carrying an elder relation's formal consent to the marriage between James Trumbo and Catherine Williams on October 6, 1866. The document is a single page, handwritten in black ink on white paper. The letter reads in full: "Dear Florian: please go…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.9.2
An unsigned and undated letter of reference, handwritten in blue ink regarding Mrs. John Fisk's suitability for midwife training. At the top right is [Mrs Amanda Carter midwife] along with her Farmville, Virginia address. The letter itself is addressed [To…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.75.26
Letter opener monogrammed for the Terrell family. The plastic letter opener has a metal lattice work handle. Printed in the center of the blade in blue is [1691 T 1916]. The reverse is blank. The plastic has some chipping on the edges.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2017.13.1.10
A Tiffany & Co. letter opener received by Cab Calloway from the New York chapter of The Northeasterners. The letter opener is from a single piece of molded sterling silver. It has a short, roughly rectangular handle and a blunt, elongated blade. The blade…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.19.1
A handwritten letter concerning the actions of the 54th Massachusetts during the Civil War, written on both sides of a single sheet of paper, folded to form four pages. This letter is addressed to "cousin" but remains unsigned. The writer gives a brief…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.4
An envelope (a) with letter (b) sent to midwife Amanda Carey Carter from a new mother regarding Carter potentially attending a birth at the woman's home. The letter is handwritten in blue ink on both sides of a single sheet of lined white paper. At top…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.75.15.4ab
An envelope (a) with enclosed letter (b) sent to midwife Amanda Carey Carter from an expectant mother regarding Carter potentially attending a birth at the woman's home. The letter is handwritten in blue ink on a single sheet of white paper, folded to form…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.75.15.2ab
