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Alvin Ailey photograph by Carl Van Vechten .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Black and white gelatin silver photographic print portrait of the dancer Alvin Ailey by Carl Van Vechten, dated March 22, 1955.
  1. George Mason University

Beardwood and Whipple family travel photograph albums .5 Linear Feet 8 albums

Beardwood, Olive Peabody, 1886-1969
Content warning: Racist language. Seven photograph albums created by Olive Whipple Peabody Beardwood and her mother, Grace M. Whipple from 1929 - 1931, documenting their travels with family across the Eastern, Southeastern, and Southern United States, as well as Europe. The majority of the albums seems to have been compiled by Olive for herself and her mother, with one album likely compiled by Grace. There is one outlier album from the 1890s.
  1. George Mason University

Bruce A. McConachie Papers, 1978-1995 1.00 Linear Feet

Signed typescript of "Goin' Home to Freedom," McConachie's adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Acc. 1986.013). Correspondence, student references, teaching evaluations, a draft and offprints of "Goin' Home to Freedom" (Acc. 1999.016).

  1. College of William and Mary

Carther A. Lewis scrapbook 1.12 Linear Feet 1 flat box

Lewis, Carther A.

This scrapbook contains newspaper articles and clippings that primarily relate to African Americans and race relations in the United States. Subjects include government, politics, art, culture, and locals. The scrapbook ranges in date from circa 1917-1946.

  1. Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Collection of photographs of African American Men and Boys from New Orleans .03 Cubic Feet 1 letter-sized folder

This collection contains three photographs with captions on the verso, "Black children and men taken in or near New Orleans." These images were taken "en route" to New Orleans, possibly from a train, in the 1930s. One photograph shows a group of young boys on a street with an inscription on the reverse that says "New Orleans." Another depicts three boys and one older man singing on train tracks with an inscription that reads "En Route to New Orleans/ Kids singing." The last is a photograph of three boys tumbling on train tracks, with the inscription "En route to New Orleans/ scrambling for money." The photographs are black and white gelatin silver measuring 3 x 5.5 inches

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

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