December 1947

Committee on Civil Rights

Pamphlet

Title: To Secure These Rights: The Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights

Final report of President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights. The report identifies race discrimination in virtually every area of American life such as education, employment, voting, and military service. Recommendations include: to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission, Joint Congressional Committee on Civil Rights, and a Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice; to develop federal protection from lynching; a permanent fair employment practice commission; and to abolish poll taxes.

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1796

Dawson, George, fl. 1796

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Verification of age and other identifying information for George Dawson. Noted as an "exact copy" on the document.

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2023

Traveling Exhibition

Title: Who Can Vote?: A Brief History of Voting Rights in the United States (Copy 1)

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April 1, 1906

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Quentin Roosevelt

Writes to his son regarding family matters and missing his children. Written on White House letterhead with corrections in Roosevelt's hand.

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7 December 1944

Weiner, Morris "Moe", 1909-1988

V-Mail

Title: to Sylvia Weiner

Moe remembers Pearl Harbor and how they heard the news three years ago.

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07 December 1941

Photograph

Title: [Bombardment of Pearl Harbor]

Mounted photograph of Japanese aerial view of attack on Pearl Harbor with Japanese text on verso.

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1831

Finden, William, 1787-1852

Engraving

Title: Engraving of Hannah More

An engraving of Hannah More based on the painting by H.W. Pickersgill. More is seated holding glasses.

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1821

Ackermann, R.A., fl. 1821

Engraving

Title: A Mandingo

One colored engraving by R.A. Ackermann entitled, "A Mandingo" dated 1821. Features an image of a Mandingo tribesman in traditional clothing.

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1814

Blood, T., fl. 1814

Engraving

Title: Engraving of William Wilberforce

One portrait engraving of William Wilberforce based on the painting by Russell R.A. dated 1814.

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5 April 1861

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 31 no. 14. (April 5, 1861)]

One issue of "The Liberator" dated April 5 1861. This issue includes articles titled, "A Wife's Account of her Husband's Murder" (A Northern man living in the South killed for supposedly aiding a slave) "Southern Ruffianism Toward Northern Citizens," and "The Cure for Southern Secession."

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22 February 1861

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 31 no. 8. (February 22, 1861)]

One issue of The Liberator dated February 22 1861. This issue includes articles titled "Slavery Triumphant," "Beecher on times," and "Protest of Colored Citizens."

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15 February 1861

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 31 no. 7. (February 15, 1861)]

A issue of the liberator from February 15 1861. This issue includes articles titled "An Abolition Meeting Broken Up by a Mob," "No Union with Slave Holder," and "The Anti-Slavery Struggle."

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28 August 1858

American Anti-Slavery Society

Newspaper

Title: National Anti-Slavery Standard. [Vol. 19, no.15 (August 28, 1858)]

One issue of the "National Anti-Slavery Standard" dated August 28, 1858. This issue features a poem "Peace in God" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The newspaper also features a section of articles that are pro-slavery. There is also an article concerning a Captain Baylis of the Keziah who was arrested and faces forty years in jail for transporting five escaped enslaved people on his ship. The newspaper also contains advertisements and notices of meetings.

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21 February 1863

Harper's Weekly

Newspaper

Title: Harper's Weekly [(February 21, 1863)]

One page of the February 21, 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly. This page features the engraving "The Effects of the Proclamation - Freed Negroes Coming Into Our Lines at Newbern, North Carolina." The reverse side of this page features articles: Patriotism and Partisanship, The Soldier's Farewell, Humors of the Day, Domestic Intelligence, and Foreign News.

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1881

Fry, William Thomas, 1789-1843

Engraving

Title: Engraving of William Wilberforce

One engraving of William Wilberforce dated 1881. Wilberforce is framed by other images including; a white person dressed as a warrior protecting a cowering African person from another white person holding chains with a raised hand. The illustrated frame is also covered in farming implements and a scroll which reads, "Act for Abolition of the Slave Trade."

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13 September 1862

Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper

Engraving

Title: A Negro Funeral

One engraving entitled "A Negro Funeral" dated September 13, 1862. The engraving features 11 African American men walking beside a horse-drawn funeral coach driven by another man. The engraving has been colored in.

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1851

Wm, S. Orr, & Co., fl. 1851

Engraving

Title: Negro Race

One engraving entitled "Negro Race" published by Wm S. Orr & Co dated 1851. Engraving features four Africans, two as portraits and two as profiles. In the center of the portraits there is a skull in profile. Each image is labeled with a number between 1 and 5. The engraving is possibly related to eugenics.

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circa 1810

Engraving

Title: Negroes just landed from a Slave Ship

One engraving entitled "Negroes just landed from a Slave Ship" dated circa 1810. Features a group of enslaved people on a beach with a ship in the background. The group is bracketed by two white men.

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13 June 1820

Hill and Moore

Newspaper

Title: New-Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette [Vol. 2, no. 24 (June 13, 1820)]

One issue of the New-Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette dated June 13, 1820. Newspaper contains advertisements, proclamations by President James Monroe, and auctions. The proclamations concern the selling of government land in the district of Detroit, as well as land in Ohio, Illinois, Arkansas, Alabama, Missouri, and Indiana.

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1833

Engraving

Title: Der Sclavenhandel [In German]

One page of engravings entitled "Der Sclavenhandel" dated 1833. The engravings are gathered on the page as an illustration of the slave trade. The top image features people being herded away from a village towards a ship. In the foreground is a person hugging children as they are threated by a man holding a stick. The lower engraving features the layout of the hold of a slave ship. It illustrates the conditions for the enslaved people in the ship.

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1840

Scriven, E., fl. 1840

Engraving

Title: Engraving of William Wilberforce

One portrait engraving of William Wilberforce dated 1840. Willberforce is seated and holding a watch. In the background is a bookcase and a curtain.

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13 June 1781

Bailey, Francis, 1744-1817

Newspaper

Title: The Freeman's Journal [No. 8 (June 13, 1781)]

One issue of The Freeman's Journal dated June 13, 1781. Features an article concerning the passage of a bill connected to the gradual abolition of slavery that would re enslave people that were already freed in Westmorland County. There are also printed letters from Nathaniel Greene, and Henry Lee.

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5 Jaunuary-28 December 1833

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Facsimile

Title: The Liberator [Vol. 3 No. 1 - Vol. 3 No. 52 (January 5, 1833-December 28, 1833)]

One bound volume of The Liberator containing issues from January 5, 1833 - December 28, 1833. Volume contains a years worth of issues. The issues contain poems, current events and abolition news.

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26 June 1835

Blair & Rives

Newspaper

Title: Extra Globe [Vol. 2 No. 5 (June 26, 1835)]

One issue of the Extra Globe dated June 26, 1835. Features an extensive article on Martin Van Buren's opinion on slavery in the territories specifically the Missouri Question. Also contains a small mention of Santa Anna entering the capitol of Zacatecas. Other articles include; The Constitution "Old Ironsides" arriving in the New York harbor and Opposition to the Martin Van Buren candidacy in Kentucky.

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19 August 1807

Newspaper

Title: Columbian Centinel [No. 2440 (August 19, 1807)]

One issue of the Columbian Centinel dated August 19, 1807. Contains public and shipping notices, as well as an article debating the political and economic results of a war at the present time.

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