A rendering of the proposed exterior submitted by nineteenth century Philadelphia architect Alonzo B. Jones, for the building design competition for a new structure to...
A comprehensive study of the history of race and relations in Washington, D.C. “Mrs. Green has here recorded the ups and downs of the relations.....
Texas Bonds and the Supreme Court. In the 1830s, General James Hamilton Jr., one-time Governor of South Carolina, and Texas loan commissioner, loaned money to...
An odd case, Thomas Turner vs. John Peabody, where the latter man accuses the former of “unlawfully converted for his own use three certain double.....
J. Russell Barr (1812-?) was one of only four jurors who voted for the conviction of John H. Surratt, a conspirator to assassinate Abraham Lincoln...
This 1824 indenture concerns the settlement of a debt and sale of land by John Holohan of Washington, D.C. to Humphrey Peake, Collector of the...
Contents include, “...The Color Line in Washington Industries; Changes in Employment of Negro Workers; Negro Government Employees; Gains and Losses in Industry Summarized…” Washington, D.C......
Proceedings of a Depression-era conference examining the role of the federal government to help African Americans in such areas as social and economic security, education...
Manuel Carvallo Causten (1841–1878) inscribed his name inside this medical sammelband: “M. C. Causten, City of Washington, M[ar]ch 1858.” Three years later and after medical.....
Norton P. Chipman, newly appointed Secretary of Washington, D.C. under the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, here writes to Washington correspondent for the...
Interesting Chinese restaurant menu from Washington, D.C. offering “Native Style” or authentic Chinese cuisine to Americans. The restaurant’s proprietor, S.J. Chan hoped: ...to introduce Chinese.....
For Baltimore-native Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993), the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, the nascence of his storied law career...
Dr. Aaron Van Camp: Future Confederate Spy, A Doctor Just before the American Civil War begins, 6 scrapbook leaves document the life of a D.C....
Lawyer, politician and financier, Fessenden would become President Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury in July of 1864. “His firm stance against slavery and its expansion.....
In this good content letter pioneer aviator Walter Wellman writes in his position as a news journalist for the American Press Association (Associated Press, today)...
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