Overview

This collection contains items dealing with African American history in the 19th and 20th century. The collection especially deals with materials of Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. This collection also contains items concerning religious, particularly LDS, history. Collection spans from approximately 1833-1981.

Scope and Contents Cannonball found near the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Independence Stake Center and the Community of Christ Temple in Independence, Missouri, approximately 1990. This solid shot, 2.75-inch projectile was likely fired by a Union Army Parrot Rifle during the Second Battle of Independence (21-22 October, 1864).On the morning of 22 October, Union forces, under the command of Major General Alfred Pleasanton, pursued Confederate General James Fagan's brigades through...

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Letters, map, advertisements, newspapers, postcards, photographs, pamphlets, painting, and other papers concerning African American history. Also contains photographs, sketches, letters, pamphlets, memorial coins, and other items concerning very prominent African American figures such as George W. Carver, Booker T. Washington, and Frederick Douglas.

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Eight African American letters. Dated 1833-1928.

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Materials include maps, newspapers, pamphlet, envelope, and printed ephemera related to African Americans in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. Dated approximately 1833-1981.

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Undated John Brown photograph with inscription, two Hiram Revels pictures dated 1977, and three unidentified photographs with explanations.

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Certificate of Authenticity for "'Harriet' Underground railroad," Huff Art Studio catalog, and two oversized pictures. These items are approximately dated 1970-1990.

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Materials include photographs, articles, programs, pamphlets, and other items concerning religious, particularly LDS, history. Dated approximately 1838-2003.

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Undated items including LDS photographs, printed articles, pamphlets, postcards, New Testament leaves, catechism book, pictorial histories of Jackson County, Missouri, family histories, and related printed ephemera.

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Original and photocopied oversized LDS photographs dated approximately 1838-2003 from Kansas City, Kansas; Kansas City, Missouri; Independence, Missouri, Excelsior Springs, Missouri; and Liberty, Missouri.