Manuscript, on paper, containing al-Suyūṭī's Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr, an anthology of poetical extracts on the relative charm of white, black, and "ruddy" women
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr and كتاب نزهة العمر في التفضيل بين البيض والسود والسمر
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Topic):
Race relations, Race, Race in literature, Arabic poetry, and History and criticism
The English sportsman sits in a chair with his feet supported on a stool, gun in hand. He wears a hat with an enormous brim. A negro servant stands behind him (right) holding up an umbrella and a branch to beat off flies. A negro boy approaches his ma...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1807 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
West Indies, British. and West Indies, British
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Race relations, Alcoholic beverages, Game bird hunting, Leisure, Enslaved persons, and Umbrellas
Advertisement for a girls' school in south London. An engraved vignette at the head of the sheet displays girls listening to a reading, while a vignette at the foot depicts a white and a black child embracing, presumably an indication of the proprieto...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Hotels, Schools, Girls, Education, School children, Race relations, and Reading
Autograph letter, in Arabic Maghrabi script, conveying a greeting to Major John Owen in Raleigh, and consisting chiefly of quotations from the Qur'an and from treatises on Arabic grammar. Quotations from the Qur'an include: Sūrat al-Najm (21-23); Sūra...
Description:
Omar ibn Said, also known as Moro or Moreau, was a West African Muslim born and educated in the Futa Toro region on the Senegal River. He was sold into slavery in approximately 1807 and transported to the United States. From approximately 1810 until t...
Subject (Geographic):
North Carolina., Africa., North Carolina, Cape Fear River Region., United States., Cape Fear River Region (N.C.), and United States
Subject (Name):
Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843., Owen, James, 1784-1865., Owen, John, 1787-1841., Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863., Taylor, John Louis, 1769-1829., and American Colonization Society.
Subject (Topic):
African American Muslims, African Americans, Colonization, Arabic language, Grammar, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslaved persons' writings, American, and Race relations
A photograph album, owned at one time by Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill, chief of the San Francisco police, with identification photographs of Chinese and Chinese-American men, circa 1874. Each photograph includes the name of the individual and an ident...
Description:
Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill (1834-1899) of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was chief of the San Francisco Police Department in California from 1873 December to 1875 December.
Subject (Geographic):
California, California., and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899. and San Francisco (Calif.). Police Department.
Subject (Topic):
Chinese, Chinese Americans, Identification photographs, Police, Race relations, and Social conditions
Draft, holograph, corrected, of a novel about a young woman from New York who learns of her African-American ancestry while travelling through Florida, Tennesee, and other parts of the southern United States in the mid to late nineteenth century. The ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Nashville (Tenn.), and New York (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
Race relations, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Slavery, Women's rights, and History
Print advertising opportunities for homes and land in the new state of South Dakota and offers official information from the Commissioner of Immigration in Aberdeen. Primary image is a female figure wearing a tiara labeled "South Dakota" and holding a...
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc35 890soz 01: Mounted on linen sheet 74 x 54 cm.
Publisher:
F. H. Hagerty, Commissioner of Immigration and Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co.
Subject (Geographic):
South Dakota and Great Sioux Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Land tenure, Migration, Internal, Real property, Race relations, and Emigration and immigration
