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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">0.03 Cubic Feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">One folder in a legal document box BW 12.</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1919-1933</unitdate>
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<p>The collection is open for research use.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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<p>MSS 16290, African-American owned Virginia businesses letters and ephemera, Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>African-American owned Virginia businesses letters and ephemera, 1919-1933, 0.03 cubic feet, includes A. W. Holmes, Grand Master of the National Ideal Benefit Society, Maggie L. Walker, W. J. Craig, C. M. Burt, Ellen B. Talor, Edward B. Taylor, James T. Carter and many others representing passenger traffic committees and banks.</p>  </scopecontent>
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