![Circa 1909 – 1914 Harpers Ferry, West Virginia Military Parade Photograph]. Unkwn](/pictures/thumb/3730964_1.jpg?v=1632404252)
Excellent photograph, with rich tonal contrast, of a military parade formation in front of the Hotel Conner in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Soldiers gather under..... Read More about Circa 1909 – 1914 Harpers Ferry, West Virginia Military Parade Photograph
Obscure American novel set in early eighteenth-century Jeffersonian-era Washington. Contemporary reviews were, by and large, positive. Godey’s described the work as “...emphatically a religious novel..... Read More about Scenes at Washington; a Story of the Last Generation
![1853 Autograph Letter Signed by Georgetown College Student Louis A. Greneaux of Louisiana]. L A....](/pictures/thumb/3730368_1.jpg?v=1620781501)
Letter by Georgetown College student Louis A. Greneaux, writing in French to his male friend Dranquet, discussing his family in Louisiana and expressing satisfaction with..... Read More about 1853 Autograph Letter Signed by Georgetown College Student Louis A. Greneaux of Louisiana
Senator and slaveholder Henry Clay of Kentucky discusses slavery in the the District of Columbia, the impediments to the immediate abolition of slavery, and the..... Read More about Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on the Subject of Abolition Petitions. Delivered in the Senate...
Romantic antebellum homage to Georgetown; its history told in flowery prose by local native and Presbyterian pastor Thomas Bloomer Balch (1793-1878). Georgetown’s sibling rivalry with..... Read More about Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. A Lecture delivered in the Methodist Protestant Church,...
![Washington Aqueduct. Specifications for Conduit [and] Specification For Graduation on Section No....](/pictures/thumb/145711_1.jpg?v=1611683824)
The construction of the Washington Aqueduct was done under the supervision of Montgomery C. Meigs of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. As seen..... Read More about Washington Aqueduct. Specifications for Conduit [and] Specification For Graduation on Section No....
Unrecorded auction catalogue held by Washington D.C. auctioneers Latimer & Cleary for Emmanuel Henri Victurnien, Marquis de Noailles (1830–1909), a French diplomat, historian, and literary..... Read More about By Latimer & Cleary, Auctioneers. Catalogue Sale of Superb Parlor and Chamber Furniture ......
Memorial supporting the rights of slaveholders by 220 citizens of Washington, D.C. who “...do not desire the enactment of any law for the extinction of..... Read More about Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the District of Columbia, adverse To any legislation on the...
Memorial of Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of Africa here joining with the national American Colonization Society to promote..... Read More about Memorial of The Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of...
“Opposes bill proposing abolition, not of slavery, but of the slave trade, in the District of Columbia; ‘slavery ought not to exist in fact and..... Read More about Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives, Feb 28, 1849, on Slavery...
![Patriotic Bank of Washington, 1832 Partly Printed Loan Coupon]. Patriotic Bank of Washington,...](/images/noimage-req.png)
Loan coupon or note issued by the Patriotic Bank of Washington, the first savings bank in Washington, D.C., established in 1815. The coupon bears the..... Read More about Patriotic Bank of Washington, 1832 Partly Printed Loan Coupon
Program for the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, formerly the Association for the Study of Negro Life..... Read More about 69th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History Inc.,...
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
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
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...
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Rare Commencement program showing Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) being graduated with honors from Howard University on Friday June 9th, 1933. Marshall was first in his class..... Read More about Thurgood Marshall Graduates from Law School, First in His Class, Cum Laude, in 1933 within:] The...
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
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
