World War II era photo album documenting men and women in military service, civilian labor, and domestic life from the early 1940s through 1961, centered on a network of relatives and friends identified through contemporary inscriptions. The strongest photographs date from the American mobilization of World War II, placing Army.....
Medal of Honor Recipient Moses Veale Signed Civil War muster out roll dated June 8, 1863 documents the discharge of 1st Lieutenant Orson Foot of the 60th New York Volunteer Infantry so he could accept a commission as Captain during the opening phase of the Gettysburg campaign. Issued at Aquia.....
[Civil War] [Black Military] [Slavery] [Virginia] Confederate government pamphlet on the impressment of enslaved men for military labor, January 1865, one of the clearest bureaucratic efforts to formalize the use of enslaved labor in support of the Confederate war effort. The document responds to a congressional inquiry into the impressment.....
Manuscript fiscal records from antebellum Virginia documenting the taxation and valuation of enslaved African Americans as property within the legal and economic system of slavery. Dating from 1815 to 1854, the records span nearly four decades and demonstrate the routine bureaucratic mechanisms through which enslaved people were enumerated, assigned monetary.....
Civil War military activity along the James River in Virginia documented in stereoscopic photographs produced near the end of the conflict. The images record Union engineering operations at Dutch Gap Canal and naval patrol activity along the James River while also capturing the presence of African American servicemen within Union.....
[Women’s History] [Military History] [Photography] Unidentified photographer, Women’s Army Corps photographs, mid 1940s document female military service during World War II and provide direct visual evidence of women’s roles within the U.S. Army following the formal incorporation of the Women's Army Corps in 1943. The images record administrative work, training.....
Black U.S. Army soldier's photo album documenting home and military life between Virginia and Vietnam in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Black servicemen moved through the formally desegregated Army during the first major U.S. war fought after official military integration. Centered a young black enlisted man, the album tracks.....
American rock drilling photo archive, c. 1960 to 1965, documenting the mechanization of blast hole drilling as self propelled crawler rigs replaced equipment that had to be towed, separately positioned, or moved between holes by additional machinery. The photographs center on Drill Carrier Corporation and Gardner Denver equipment marked AT.....
Warren W. Heyser archive of 178 letters and envelopes, chiefly 1918–1919 and spanning 1914 through the late 1920s, addressed to Antoinette Mertz in Newark, New Jersey. Many letters are written on Army and Navy Young Men’s Christian Association “With the Colors” stationery; others are in commercial hotel envelopes from Pittsburgh.....
Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia for 1852 documents slave-state governance in antebellum Virginia, providing evidence of the legal system through which racial control, fiscal administration, corporate authorization, and transportation development operated before the Civil War. The statute titled “An Act to suppress Gambling by Negroes and white persons.....
Virginia League of Women Voters. Virginia Cookery Book: Traditional Recipes, 1921, uses community cookery to fund women’s civic education in Virginia immediately after national woman suffrage became law. The book belongs to the suffrage and women’s citizenship culture of the early 1920s, joining domestic knowledge, local advertising, and political fundraising.....
Barnard, George N. Battery No. 4 Near Yorktown, 1862, documents Union siege artillery operations during the Peninsula Campaign, providing visual evidence of large-scale military engineering and heavy ordnance deployment under General George B. McClellan’s command. The photograph supports research into Civil War siege warfare, artillery technology, and the logistical systems.....
Archive of 33 vernacular Polaroid's of African Americans alone or in small groups mainly doing ordinary activities during their daily lives. C. 1960s-90s. Measure 3.5" x 4.25" in. 16 of the photos have been mounted to cardboard. 17 have standard Polaroid backing. Photos feature recurring characters who become familiar through.....
Black Joy Photo archive of 77 vernacular photos of African Americans celebrating weddings, graduations, birthdays and other special occasions. C. 1970s-90s. Archive includes several separate series highlighting individual family events. In one such series, an older woman in party dress unwraps gifts, possibly for a housewarming. In another series a......
Appalachian Coal Mining Operations; Photo Archive of Five Original Gelatin Silver Photographs , ca. 1910s–1920s. Five gelatin silver prints, measuring betweenand 8" x 9" to 5" x 7" Striking vernacular archive documenting early 20th-century industrial coal mining practices through four large-format photographs capturing both above- and below-ground operations. One image.....
[CIvil War] Signed document regarding temporary assignment of an officer. Department of the South: 1864. Measures 5 x 8 inches. Order reads in part, "During the temporary absence Lieut-Col James F. Hall 1st Regt N.Y Vol. Engineers, Provost Marshal General, Department of the South...All orders and instructions heretofore given to.....
"Religious Folk Songs of the Negro as Sung on the Plantations," 1909, issued by Hampton Institute as its fourth publication of plantation religious songs and expanded with twenty five selections supplied through Fisk University, Tuskegee Institute, the Calhoun Colored School, and the Penn School. The volume records a formative stage.....
[Law] Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia Passed in 1852 in the Seventy-Sixth Year of the Commonwealth. Richmond: William F. Ritchie Public Printer, 1852. First Edition Hardcover with original half legal calf over marbled boards. 403 pages. Measures 6" x 9.5". Includes section on manufacturing and mining companies, insurance.....
[African American][Poetry] Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Howdy Honey Howdy. Illustrated with photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905. First edition.Original publisher’s pictorial brown cloth stamped in black, red, and gilt, with a mounted halftone photograph of an African American woman on the front cover. Spine decorated.....
Original vernacular photograph archive of African American family c. 1940s. 21 silver gelatin photos ranging from 3.5 x 5 to 4.5 x 3 inches. 16 photo negatives, some are copies of the prints. Photos show family members posing individually and in groups, many in front of the same large white.....
[Women Suffrage] [Law] Minor. Francis. Women's Legal Right to the Ballot An Argument in Support Of. Reprinted from The Forum. December, 1886. 8.5" x 6" inches. 10 pages. This pamphlet was written by lawyer and woman's rights advocate Francis Minor. Minor was married to suffragist Virginia Minor, famed for her.....
Rare Abolitionist Civil War American Missionary magazine from January 1862. New York: American Missionary Association, January 1862. Vol. VI, No. 1. Original printed self-wrappers measuring 8.5" x 5.75" and numbering 24 pages. Issue of the abolitionist American Missionary magazine published by the American Missionary Association (AMA), a Protestant reform organization.....
TUCKER, Henry St. George. Woman's Suffrage by Constitutional Amendment. This is a collection of lectures delivered by Tucker in the William Storrs Lecture Series, Yale University Law School, 1916, and originally titled "Local Self-Government." New Haven: Yale University Press, 1916. 7.5" x 4.5" inches. First edition in original green cloth.....
[Suffrage] [Cookbook] Virginia League of Women Voters. Virginia Cookery Book: Traditional Recipes. Richmond, VA: Virginia League of Women Voters, 1921. First edition. 192 pages. Cream illustrated boards. 9.25 x 6.5 inches. “Believing that our spirits are strengthened by well nourished bodies we have collected with care the recipes contained in.....
[African American] Small Photo archive of 6 sepia-toned Kodak prints of African American women posing beside the foundation of a small building. 1952. Measure 5" x 3.5" inches. Photos show 4 subjects alone or, in one image, 2 in a pair, standing in an open field with trees lining the.....
