August 13, 1910

The Colored Alabamian Co.

Newspaper

Title: The Colored Alabamian

One issue of the newspaper "The Colored Alabamian." Volume IV. Number 25. dated August 13, 1910. Published in Montgomery, Alabama by the Colored Alabamian Co. This issue has a report from S.R.W. Smith, the dean of Selma University's literary department, reporting on positive changes for African Americans in politics in Knoxville, Tennessee. There's also mention of a short-lived, little known African American periodical for which OCLC locates no copies: James E. McCall's “The Colored Servant Girl.”

GLC10121

1909

Unknown

Object

Title: William Howard Taft inauguration medal

GLC01995.01

1902

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

Book

Title: The anti-slavery papers of James Russell Lowell. Vol 1

First edition. No. 141 of a Limited edition of 525 copies. Uncut and unopened. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company.

GLC00267.013.01

1902

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

Book

Title: The anti-slavery papers of James Russell Lowell. Vol 2

First edition. No. 141 of a Limited edition of 525 copies. Uncut and unopened. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company.

GLC00267.013.02

1926

Dones, Sidney P., 1888-1947

Pamphlet

Title: Eureka Villa

GLC10156

1935

Commission on Interracial Cooperation

Book

Title: The Mob Still Rides: A Review of the Lynching Record (1931-1935)

One copy of a book entitled, "The Mob Still Rides: A Review of the Lynching Record (1931-1935)" printed by Commission on Interracial Cooperation dated 1935. Provides data of 84 lynchings that had taken place in 5 years. Analysis contains data on complaints, unpunished lynchers, lynch mobs, exploitation, and media reporting.

GLC09977.03

1900

Eldridge, W. C., fl. 1900

Book

Title: Elementary manual of practice. Civil war claims.

Manual regarding Civil War pension claims published by the Government Printing Office. Compiled by Eldridge and L. R. Ginn for the office of F. H. Morris, Auditor for the War Department. Includes information on Bounty Acts, veteran's status, heirship in bounty, desertion, death after discharge, recruits, volunteers, drafted men, substitutes, and instructions to African American soldiers, among other topics. Contains a sticker and imprint from Dover Public Library, Dover, New Hampshire. Includes handwritten numbers and letters underneath the title on page three.

GLC06264

circa 1926

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Broadside

Title: For the Good of America

NAACP poster listing statistics regarding the 3,436 lynchings that occurred between 1889 and 1922. States "Do you know that the United States is the Only Land on Earth where people are burned at the stake?" Reports that 83 women have been lynched in the United States. Requests that donations are sent to Joel Elias Spingarn, NAACP Treasurer.

GLC06197

1908

Morton, Jack, fl. 1908

Postcard

Title: [Color reproduction of a photograph depicting the lynching of four African Americans]

Beside the photo on the front of the postcard, printed text indicates that the lynching took place at Russellville, Kentucky, and the photograph was taken 1 August 1908. Depicts several lynching victims hung on a cedar tree. Caption states that "[t]his is a multiple cedar tree and these four make a total of nine men lynched on this tree, some were white men." Photograph includes two witnesses watching the lynching. A warning sign hangs from the neck of one lynched man. On verso, printed text indicates placement of address and stamp. Copyrighted by Morton, a salesman in Nashville,…

GLC06265

December 31, 1921

Moton, Robert Russa, 1867-1940

Typed letter signed

Title: to unknown

Moton, President of the Tuskegee Institute, reports on "[t]he lynching record for 1921," based on the research of Monroe N. Work, in charge of the Department of Records and Research at the Institute. States that in 1921, "...there were 72 instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchings. Of these 8 were in Northern States and 64 were in Southern States. In 1920 there were 56 such instances, 46 in Southern and 10 in Northern States. In 66 of the cases, the prisoners were removed, or the guards were augmented, or other precautions taken. In 6 instances armed force was used to…

GLC06068

1905

Floyd, Silas Xavier, 1869-1923

Book

Title: Floyd's flowers or duty and beauty for colored children

Full title as stated on title page is "Floyd's flowers or duty and beauty for colored children being one hundred short stories gleaned from the storehouse of human knowledge and experience." Published by Hertel, Jenkins & Co. Contains a stamp of Hudgins Publishing Company, Atlanta, Georgia. Floyd, an African American author, offers educational and moral lessons to children. Includes biographical sketches of historical figures such as Frederick Douglass. Contains illustrations throughout the text by John Henry Adams, an art professor at Morris-Brown College in Atlanta. Includes…

GLC06119

circa 1901

Header Record

Title: Book and newspaper clipping [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC06126

circa 1910

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Pamphlet

Title: The suppressed chapter of "life on the Mississippi"

Leaflet consisting of the suppressed chapter of Twain's book Life on the Mississippi, which was published in 1883. First edition. Marked as number 230 of 250 numbered copies of the first printing. Comparing Northern and Southern society, Twain discusses public indifference. Criticizes the tendency for Southerners to maintain similar opinions and to vote the same way. Opens by stating "I missed one thing in the South- African slavery. That horror is gone, and permanently ... half the South is at last emancipated, half the South is free. But the white half is apparently as far from…

GLC05847

1915 circa

Header Record

Title: [Materials related to "The Capture of John Brown"] [decimalized .01-.03]

Items accompanying Avey's book: the original publisher's prospectus signed by James Collin as publisher's agent, small printed leaflet facsimile of Brown's last written words (included with the book, according to the note written on it), and a photograph of Brown's widow's house in California. The prospectus notes "Avery... was learning the watchmaker's trade in Charlestown, Jefferson County, Virginia in 1859 in the days of the John Brown troubles. He heard John Brown's trial and those of his associates. He saw him and his six men executed."

GLC06806.02

February 25, 1909

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Typed letter signed

Title: to Alexander Spottswood Campbell

Spottswood was possibly Mosby's grandson (son of daughter May Virginia Campbell and Robert Campbell). Typed on Department of Justice stationery with the printed heading, "Carbon copy for the file". Transmits a clipping from the Times-Dispatch on an essay on Robert E. Lee by "a Northern girl." Declares that it is a fair assessment of Lee, and discusses the article at length: "...if there had been free schools in the south there would have been no war simply because an enlightened public opinion in that section would not have submitted to the rule of a slave holding oligarchy. A large…

GLC05738

19 March 1912

Johnson, D.C., fl. 1912

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. E. Boos, Esq.

Johnson discusses being raised in Illinois and enlisting in the army. On Lincoln, slavery and the Civil War, he writes: "No man has a higher opinion of Lincoln than I. He was the Good Lords [sic] instrument in destroying the greatest sin of this nation and his death was the last atonement for this National sin." Johnson was a member of the 25th Illinois Volunteer infantry, Company H.

GLC05508.149

circa 1910

Broadsheet

Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin

J. H. J. Ronner announces a play by Harkins and Barbour of Uncle Tom's Cabin with 200 people in the cast. Boosts, "Cotton pickers, dancers, jubilee singers, Mississippi steamboat." "Scenically the most mammoth production of modern times." At the Majestic Theatre. A scene from the play is printed on both sides. Circa date based on type of newsprint and photography.

GLC05508.013.01

January 1907

Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Battle Hymn of the Republic]

The first and fourth verses.

GLC00017

1905

Reynolds, John S. (John Schreiner)., b. 1848

Book

Title: Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865-1877

Discusses the provisional government and conditions at the end of the Civil War under military occupation and control. Chapters cover the administration of each governor, including James Lawrence Orr, Robert Kingston Scott, Franklin J. Moses, and Daniel Henry Chamberlain, as well as topics such as the Ku Klux Klan, frauds, and dual government. Published by The State Co., Publishers, Columbia, South Carolina.

GLC00267.390

1910

Villard, Oswald G., 1872-1949

Book

Title: John Brown 1800-1859: A biography fifty years after

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, the Riverside Press Cambridge, Massachusetts.

GLC00267.214

1906

Avey, Elijah, fl. 1906

Book

Title: The Capture and execution of John Brown: A tale of martyrdom

Avey gives an eye witness account. Printed by the Brethren Publishing House, Elgin, Illinois.

GLC00267.215

circa 1910

Jenkins, James H., 1841-?

Header Record

Title: [Decimalized .01-.03]

GLC02484

1917

Norwood, T.M., 1830-1913

Book

Title: A true vindication of the South

GLC08581.10

1902

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

Header Record

Title: The anti-slavery papers of James Russell Lowell.

First edition. No. 141 of a Limited edition of 525 copies. Uncut and unopened. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company.

GLC00267.013

1910

Nieboer, H.J., 1873-1920

Book

Title: Slavery as an industrial system; ethnological researches, by Dr. H. J. Nieboer

Second edition. Geared towards world-wide survey of slavery. Published by Martinus Nijhoff, the Hague.

GLC00267.086