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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... Read More about “Compliments of Alonzo B. Jones Archts. [Architects]” [Inscribed photograph of an...
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..... Read More about The Secret City. A History Of Race Relations In The Nation’s Capital
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... Read More about 1851 Letter concerning a Legal Dispute relating to Payment of Republic of Texas Bonds, from...
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..... Read More about 1841 District of Columbia Legal Manuscript re: a Converted Double Barreled Fowling Gun
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... Read More about 1849 to 1862 File of Documents and Letters; Some Pertaining to Future 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... Read More about 1824 District of Columbia Manuscript Indenture Signed Twice by Judge and former U.S. Congressman...
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...... Read More about The Employment of Negroes in the District of Columbia
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... Read More about Proceedings of the Second National Conference on the Problems of the Negro and Negro Youth…
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..... Read More about Medical Sammelband owned by Dr. M. C. Causten of Washington, D.C. of two French texts: an...
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... Read More about 1871 Autograph Letter Signed by Norton P. Chipman, Secretary of Washington D.C. and soon-to-be...
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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..... Read More about Washington, D.C.] Chinese Lantern Cafe. Native Style Menu
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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... Read More about Thurgood Marshall Graduates from Law School, First in His Class, Cum Laude, in 1933 within:] The...
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.... Read More about 1858 to 1862 Collection. Future Confederate Spy Aaron Van Camp of Washington D. C. Autograph...
A history of African-American physicians and their exclusion from white medical associations until well into the 20th century. Dr. William Montague Cobb (1904-1990) was the... Read More about The First Negro Medical Society. A History of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of...
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..... Read More about Speech of Hon. W.P. Fessenden, of Maine, On the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia,...
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)... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed by Walter Wellman, Pioneer American Aviator
