1904

Hewitt, Arthur, fl. 1904-1905

Photograph

Title: Portrait of Roosevelt with his four sons.

GLC07002.87

31 August 1903

Sanborn, Abner S., 1833-1911

Printed document signed

Title: [Stock certificate for the Louis Bell Building Association]

Partially printed document signed by Abner as president, and cosigned by Piper as treasurer and Morgan as secretary. Certifies that Eleazer L. Sarsons owns one share in the Louis Bell Building Association, which was created "for the use and convenience of the veteran soldiers of Manchester and vicinity, who hold stock therein." Labeled "No. 473."

GLC03953.11

1894

Democratic Party (Ga.)

Broadside

Title: Colored Voters Read

One broadside entitled, "Colored Voters Read," dated 1894 printed by Georgia's Democratic Party. Asks the question, "What Evidence have the Negroes of this State that Schools will be provided for their Children in case the Third Party gets into Power?" Details and compares taxes paid toward school funds between black and white people. Concludes that "...in the matter of schools alone the negro received more than three times as much money, as he pays in to the Public Treasurer from all sources."

GLC09000

25 October 1915

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Printed document

Title: Needs and progress of the Negro

Printed leaflet of an address delivered by Washington at the annual meeting of the American Missionary Association. First page contains the New York address of the Missionary Association and a photograph of Washington. Text indicates that this is only part of Washington's presentation. Contents discuss race relations in America. Outlines the vast growth in academic opportunities for African-Americans since the Civil War, but stresses that much work still has to be done in funding schools for blacks: "There is sometimes much talk of the inferiority of the Negro. In practice, however, the…

GLC04297.02

January 1923

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: 13th annual report NAACP for the year 1922

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1923, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states that the NAACP "has continued to carry out one of its most vital purposes, that of keeping intensely alive among the colored people of America the sense of racial vigilance and the conviction thar their future depends upon a realization of what the race is justly entitled to and a determination to secure it." Includes reports on the Dyer anti-lynching bill, legal defense related to lynching, a lynching record for 1922, a report on race riots (citing the Ernest Thomas case), reports on…

GLC06135.01

January 1924

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: 14th annual report NAACP for the year 1923

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1924, including President Moorfield Storey. An introductory letter from Storey asks for financial support from readers of the pamphlet. Foreword states that the NAACP "is striving; it is striving to vindicate the American idea ... that every man shall have opportunity for the highest self development and that his achievements shall not be denied recognition on their merits." Includes reports on the Dyer anti-lynching bill, race riots and mob violence, discrimination at Harvard University, an African American veteran's hospital at Tuskegee, Alabama, the…

GLC06135.02

January 1927

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: 17th annual report NAACP for the year 1926

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1927, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states "More and more, has it been borne in upon the Association that for the present the avenue to affirmation and defense of the Negro's fundamental rights in America lies through the courts." Includes reports on the Sweet case, residential segregation in several cities, the Texas-White primary, mob violence, and the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, among other topics. Contains a report on finances. Closes with a report from the department of publications and research.

GLC06135.03

January 1929

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: 19th annual report NAACP for the year 1928

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword commemorates twenty years of NAACP activity. Reports on legal cases such as that of Robert Bell and Grady Swain, two boys sentenced to death on a flimsy charge; and Ben Bess, who was serving a thirty-year sentence based solely on a woman's shaky accusation. Also includes reports on several other cases. Includes a section devoted to civil rights, which contains segments discussing voting, theater discrimination, school segregation, and other area-specific topics. Includes a report on lynching and a…

GLC06135.04

January 1930

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: 20th annual report of the NAACP for the year 1929

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929. Foreword states "Uncompromising insistence upon full participation by the Negro in all phases of life is coming more and more to be the attitude of thinking and intelligent white and colored people." Contains reports on African Americans and the vote, residential segregation, African American federal prisoners, discrimination in athletics and church, anti-intermarriage bills, President Herbert Hoover's crime commission, and lynching, among other topics. Provides updates on the NAACP's legal defense related to particular cases, such as the Bell-…

GLC06135.05

January 1932

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: NAACP 1931 22nd annual report: a year's work for justice to the Negro

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1932. Foreword declares that the NAACP's aims "are in the path of manifest destiny of the darker races of the world. The world crisis and the social and political experiments that are its accompaniment all emphasize the fact which the Association was formed to promulgate- that the human family is one, and that all men are entitled to equal opportunity regardless of color or creed." Reports on African Americans saved from death or life imprisonment, school segregation, a fund for legal work, voting and the "white primary," discrimination (citing…

GLC06135.06

12 October 1813

Woodworth, S., & Co., fl. 1813

Newspaper

Title: The war. [Vol. II, no. 17 (October 12, 1813)]

Prints updates on War of 1812.

GLC03436.16

19 July 1906

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1873-1942

Typed letter signed

Title: to John Quincy Adams Ward

Writes that he has become president of the Robert Fulton Memorial Association and was pleased to see that Ward has accepted membership. Informs that they hope to lay the cornerstone of the memorial next year on Fulton's birthday. Invites Ward to visit or make suggestions at any time. Written on Robert Fulton Memorial Association stationary. Printed with the names of committee members.

GLC06343.371

30 June 1903

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Molly Kelly

He refers to family, and recounts their travels.

GLC04195.53

circa 1908

Document

Title: Inventory consisting of a partial list of the contents of the Ward collection; graph notebook paper.

Dates of items run from 1862 to 1908, and include sketches, scultpure designs, letters, photos, and newspaper articles.

GLC06343.229

circa 1900-1910

Photograph

Title: Photograph: John Q.A. Ward stading in front a statue model in progress.

Photo of Ward in front of a statue in progress.

GLC06343.285

June 1901

Typed document

Title: "For the Pan American-Exposition". Re: Names and addresses of contributors of art, pottery, and other various items to the exposition.

"Burnt & Carved Wood"

GLC06343.324

1915

Newspaper clipping

Title: [Newspaper clippings]

GLC04360.119b

1915

Newspaper clipping

Title: [Newspaper Clippings]

GLC04360.119c

1916-1982

Southern, Neta Snook, 1896-1991

Header Record

Title: [Papers of Neta Snook Southern]

The earlier papers include a newspaper clipping advertising Snook's flight instruction and a short note most likely written by Neta Snook to her mother. There is correspondence regarding Snook's publication, photocopies of letters written by Amelia Earhart to various recipients, and correspondence from Lloyd Royer, a fellow pilot and friend of Snook's. In addition to the correspondence, the archive includes Snook's membership card to the Experimental Aircraft Association and a number of magazine and newspaper clippings regarding Snook, Earhart, and John Montijo.

GLC07243.004

1900-1920

Document

Title: [Curtiss airplane blueprints]

A collection of blueprints detailing the parts of a Curtiss Jenny airplane; the type of airplane flown by Neta Snook. The blueprints come from the David D. Hatfield Aviation Collection.

GLC07243.007

circa 1900

Wells, Cora E., fl. 1900

Typed document

Title: J. Q. A Ward, the Eminent American Sculptor

Features an article on Ward and his works and, photos of Ward, the New York Stock Exchange pediment, and a George Washington sculpture at Wall St. Printed ink; coated wove paper.

GLC06343.037

1903

Photograph

Title: Stock Exchange Pediment

Photograph of John Quincy Adams Ward's Stock Exchange Pediment. With black ink inscription on back, "Stock Exchange Pediment, 1903." Wove paper.

GLC06343.038

circa 1900

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [New York Stock Exchange Pediment sketches]

Iron gall ink; blue wove graph paper.

GLC06343.039

1905

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Book signed

Title: Henry Wellington Wack

Henry Wellington Wack: "The story of the free Congo State..." signed by Clemens with autograph note above frontpiece portrait: "A bucket of whitewash for the miscreant King Leopold."

GLC08137

1910

Printed document

Title: Lincoln Said Women Should Vote

Washington woman suffrage poster, featuring Abraham Lincoln's quote, "I go for all sharing the priviledges of government who assist in bearing its burdens, by no means excluding women."

GLC09103