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Leon Gardiner collection of American Negro Historical Society records [Box 9G, Folder 21]
The American Negro Historical Society was founded in 1897 by a group of Philadelphia blacks to study and preserve materials documenting the American black experience. Among the founders and early members were Robert Adger, W.M. Dorsey and Jacob C.…
George (ship) logbook [1805-1806]
The entries in this logbook include discussion of supplies brought on board, where enslaved people -- referred to as "passengers" -- were picked up, trips to the "Negro market," and descriptions of the geographical attributes and inhabitants of…
John H. Gihon unpublished histories of California, Kansas, Mexico, and Texas [volume 1]
The collection includes three manuscripts containing the histories of California, 1534-1850; Kansas, 1857; and of Mexico and Texas, 1845.
[Deborah Passmore Gillingham scrapbook of prints, drawings, and specimens] [graphic].
Ca. 185 prints, drawings, items, manuscripts and 52 leaves in 1 scrapbook : chiefly engraving, mezzotints, pencil works and specimens ; scrapbook 49 x 55 cm (19.25 x 21.75 in)
Buffalo Bill
Bust-sized portrait of Buffalo Bill with printed autograph in bottom right corner.
Charter of the Grass Valley Gold Mining Company, : organized July 25, 1851, under the general incorporation act of California. Together with extracts from the law, and various documents illustrating the business of quartz mining..
Includes an "Appendix" giving an overview of the geology of California’s gold regions, and extracts from the company’s first annual report.