Four-page list of "hands on the farm at Terre au Beouf [Boeuf]" [of Louisiana] compiled by S. B. Davis, Mrs. R. Smith, P. C. Wederstrandt, and Henry Thompson. Includes names of 77 slaves listed by gender. List contributed by Thompson also gives...
Letter from Phillips & Gardner of Charleston [South Carolina] to Mess. Gardner & Dean [of Newport, Rhode Island] regarding Charleston slave trade and cargo aboard the Brig [Sloop] Louisa. Includes inquiry about business with Mr. D'Wolf [possibly...
Petition [from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] to Massachusetts Governor Marcus Morton to appoint Amos B. Merrill to act as an agent for "colored seamen" in the ports of Charleston [South Carolina] and New Orleans [Louisiana].
Collins, James B., b. 1843; Collins, Joseph T., d. 1863; Collins, John W., bookbinder; Collins, Mary Anne; Collins, John W., bookbinder; Commodore Barney (Steamboat); Monitor (Ironclad); Monticello (Steamer); United States--History--Civil War,...
66 autograph letters, signed, between James B. Collins and his brother Joseph T. Collins, their parents John W. and Mary Anne Collins, and a handful of friends and relatives, all dated between February 4, 1862 and July 9, 1863. The bulk of the...
Ship manifest of "negroes, mulattoes, and persons of color taken on" the Ship Pioneer from Alexandria [Virginia] to the port of New Orleans, Louisiana. Includes names of ship's Master John C. Graham, shipper John C. Weedon of Prince William County,...
Ship manifest of "negroes, mulattoes, and persons of color taken on" the Brig Uneas of Alexandria from the port of Alexandria to New Orleans, Louisiana. Includes names of ship's Master Nathaniel Boush, shippers William H. Williams of Washington...
Ship manifest of "negroes, mulattoes, and persons of color taken on" the Brig Uneas of Alexandria from the port of Alexandria to New Orleans, Louisiana. Includes names of ship's Master Nathaniel Boush, shipper William H. Williams of Washington...
Ship manifest of "negroes, mulattoes, and persons of color taken on" the Brig Isaac Franklin of Alexandria from the port of Alexandria [Virginia] to New Orleans [Louisiana]. Includes names of ship's Master William Smith, shipper Robert N. Windsor,...
Ship manifest of "negroes, mulattoes, and persons of color taken on" the Ship Romulus from the port of Alexandria [Virginia]. Includes names of ship's Master Joseph Webster, shipper John M. Simmons of Louisiana, [collector] Edward Green and two...
Ship manifest of "negroes, mulattoes, and persons of color taken on" the Ship Maryland of Alexandria [Virginia] from the port of Alexandria to New Orleans [Louisiana]. Includes names of ship's owner Roger Jamieson, Master Charles A. Berry,...
Ship manifest of "negroes, mulattoes, and persons of color taken on" the Brig Angora of Ellsworth from the port of Alexandria [Virginia] to New Orleans, Louisiana. Includes names of ship's Master Barthuel Salsbury, shipper George Kephart, and...
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
Telegram sent by Herndon Smith to Juliana Force, dated May 19, 1928, 12:53 PM. Mention of Karl Free picture sale to Miss Matilda Grey of Lake Charles, Lousiana. Stamped and signed on verso.
Art, American--20th century--Exhibitions; Whitney Studio Club--Paperwork (Office practice);
Service invoice dated May 29, 1928, for insurance, shipping, packing, and correspondence for works of art exhibited in the Traveling Exhibition from 1927 to 1928. Two (2) pages. Artists mentioned: Nan Watson, Henry Schnakenberg, Yasuo Kuniyoshi,...
Durant, Thomas J.(Thomas Jefferson),1817-1882; United states--Politics and government--1865-1877; Louisiana--Politics and government--1865-1950
Nine letters from various correspondents to Thomas Jefferson Durant, a lawyer and Louisiana state senator, and one of the few prominent Southerners who supported the Union during the Civil War. After the war he practiced in Washington D.C.
