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A cotton ball [graphic].
Racist trade card depicting a view personifying cotton as a young African American woman. Shows the woman dancing with a large ball of cotton atop her head worn in the manner of a head dress. The woman leans to her left and kicks her right leg up as…
A California pioneer : the chapter on Lewis Polock in the unpublished typescript of Draft C of Edwin Wolf’s “The Polocks: Philadelphia adventurers and pioneers, 1833-1854” [LCP MSS Wolf Box 1, folder 17]
Unpublished typescript from a book project intended to follow: Wolf, E. The history of the Jews of Philadelphia from colonial times to the age of Jackson (Philadelphia, 1956).
1902 correspondence Part 1 [Ridgway and Bishop families papers, Box 10]
This collection is comprised of business records and correspondence of the Ridgway and Bishop families of New Jersey and Philadelphia. Primary individuals within the collection include Jacob Elwood Ridgway and his son-in-law John Israel Bishop, both…