Manuscript of a detailed description of the geography, population, economy, government, and social organization of Jamaica by John Dalling, who was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the colony in 1767. Topics include agriculture, the sugar trade and th...
Description:
Binding: Contemporary marbled wrappers. Title label on front wrapper: "Observations on Jamaica. Colonel Dalling 1774."
Subject (Geographic):
Jamaica. and Jamaica
Subject (Topic):
Plantation life, Slavery, Slaveholders, Sugar trade, Description and travel, Economic conditions, Race relations, and Social life and customs
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
Photographic postcard depicting the tree where Scott Burton was lynched on August 14, 1908 during the Springfield, Illinois race riot, taken by an unidentified photographer
Description:
Captions in English.
Subject (Geographic):
Illinois., Illinois, Springfield., and Springfield (Ill.)
N.A.A.C.P. publications and related ephemera, 1915-1978 and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People publications and related ephemera, 1915-1978
Description:
BEIN JWJ Zan N213 +915N: Some of these items are accompanied by articles printed from the World Wide Web.
Publisher:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored people
Subject (Geographic):
Texas, Waco., and United States
Subject (Name):
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Photographic postcard of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, taken by Lawrence Beitler. Shipp and Smith were murdered by a mob in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930
Description:
Lawrence Beitler (1885-1960) was an American studio photographer.
Subject (Geographic):
Indiana, Marion., Marion, Grant County, and Marion (Ind.)
Subject (Name):
Beitler, Lawrence., Shipp, Thomas, 1911-1930, and Smith, Abram, -1930
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, African Americans, Violence against, Lynching, Racism, and Race relations
Sketches and drawings by Templeton of the principal participants in the presentation phase of the trial in Connecticut Superior Court of Black Panther Party chairman Bobby Seale and Black Panther Party organizer Ericka Huggins for kidnapping, murder, ...
Description:
Robert Clark Templeton (1929-1991) was an artist known for painting portraits of Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, as well as leaders of the civil rights movement.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven, United States, New Haven., and New Haven (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Bologna, Sando, 1915-, Davis, Rennie, Garry, Charles R., 1909-, Huggins, Ericka, Kimbro, Warren, Markle, Arnold, Mulvey, Harold M., 1914-2000, Roraback, Catherine G., Rosen, David N., 1944-, Sams, George W., Jr., Seale, Bobby, 1936-, Templeton, Robert., Black Panther Party, and Connecticut. Superior Court (New Haven County)
Subject (Topic):
African American political activists, African Americans, Black militant organizations, Black power, Political activists, Trials (Conspiracy), Trials (Kidnapping), Trials (Murder), and Race relations
Sketches and drawings by Templeton of the principal participants in the presentation phase of the trial in Connecticut Superior Court of Black Panther Party chairman Bobby Seale and Black Panther Party organizer Ericka Huggins for kidnapping, murder, ...
Description:
Robert Clark Templeton (1929-1991) was an artist known for painting portraits of Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, as well as leaders of the civil rights movement.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven, United States, New Haven., and New Haven (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Bologna, Sando, 1915-, Davis, Rennie, Garry, Charles R., 1909-, Huggins, Ericka, Kimbro, Warren, Markle, Arnold, Mulvey, Harold M., 1914-2000, Roraback, Catherine G., Rosen, David N., 1944-, Sams, George W., Jr., Seale, Bobby, 1936-, Templeton, Robert., Black Panther Party, and Connecticut. Superior Court (New Haven County)
Subject (Topic):
African American political activists, African Americans, Black militant organizations, Black power, Political activists, Trials (Conspiracy), Trials (Kidnapping), Trials (Murder), and Race relations
Sketches and drawings by Templeton of the principal participants in the presentation phase of the trial in Connecticut Superior Court of Black Panther Party chairman Bobby Seale and Black Panther Party organizer Ericka Huggins for kidnapping, murder, ...
Description:
Robert Clark Templeton (1929-1991) was an artist known for painting portraits of Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, as well as leaders of the civil rights movement.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven, United States, New Haven., and New Haven (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Bologna, Sando, 1915-, Davis, Rennie, Garry, Charles R., 1909-, Huggins, Ericka, Kimbro, Warren, Markle, Arnold, Mulvey, Harold M., 1914-2000, Roraback, Catherine G., Rosen, David N., 1944-, Sams, George W., Jr., Seale, Bobby, 1936-, Templeton, Robert., Black Panther Party, and Connecticut. Superior Court (New Haven County)
Subject (Topic):
African American political activists, African Americans, Black militant organizations, Black power, Political activists, Trials (Conspiracy), Trials (Kidnapping), Trials (Murder), and Race relations
Sketches and drawings by Templeton of the principal participants in the presentation phase of the trial in Connecticut Superior Court of Black Panther Party chairman Bobby Seale and Black Panther Party organizer Ericka Huggins for kidnapping, murder, ...
Description:
Robert Clark Templeton (1929-1991) was an artist known for painting portraits of Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, as well as leaders of the civil rights movement.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven, United States, New Haven., and New Haven (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Bologna, Sando, 1915-, Davis, Rennie, Garry, Charles R., 1909-, Huggins, Ericka, Kimbro, Warren, Markle, Arnold, Mulvey, Harold M., 1914-2000, Roraback, Catherine G., Rosen, David N., 1944-, Sams, George W., Jr., Seale, Bobby, 1936-, Templeton, Robert., Black Panther Party, and Connecticut. Superior Court (New Haven County)
Subject (Topic):
African American political activists, African Americans, Black militant organizations, Black power, Political activists, Trials (Conspiracy), Trials (Kidnapping), Trials (Murder), and Race relations
Sketches and drawings by Templeton of the principal participants in the presentation phase of the trial in Connecticut Superior Court of Black Panther Party chairman Bobby Seale and Black Panther Party organizer Ericka Huggins for kidnapping, murder, ...
Description:
Robert Clark Templeton (1929-1991) was an artist known for painting portraits of Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, as well as leaders of the civil rights movement.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven, United States, New Haven., and New Haven (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Bologna, Sando, 1915-, Davis, Rennie, Garry, Charles R., 1909-, Huggins, Ericka, Kimbro, Warren, Markle, Arnold, Mulvey, Harold M., 1914-2000, Roraback, Catherine G., Rosen, David N., 1944-, Sams, George W., Jr., Seale, Bobby, 1936-, Templeton, Robert., Black Panther Party, and Connecticut. Superior Court (New Haven County)
Subject (Topic):
African American political activists, African Americans, Black militant organizations, Black power, Political activists, Trials (Conspiracy), Trials (Kidnapping), Trials (Murder), and Race relations
Sketches and drawings by Templeton of the principal participants in the presentation phase of the trial in Connecticut Superior Court of Black Panther Party chairman Bobby Seale and Black Panther Party organizer Ericka Huggins for kidnapping, murder, ...
Description:
Robert Clark Templeton (1929-1991) was an artist known for painting portraits of Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, as well as leaders of the civil rights movement.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven, United States, New Haven., and New Haven (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Bologna, Sando, 1915-, Davis, Rennie, Garry, Charles R., 1909-, Huggins, Ericka, Kimbro, Warren, Markle, Arnold, Mulvey, Harold M., 1914-2000, Roraback, Catherine G., Rosen, David N., 1944-, Sams, George W., Jr., Seale, Bobby, 1936-, Templeton, Robert., Black Panther Party, and Connecticut. Superior Court (New Haven County)
Subject (Topic):
African American political activists, African Americans, Black militant organizations, Black power, Political activists, Trials (Conspiracy), Trials (Kidnapping), Trials (Murder), and Race relations
Photocopy of a typescript memoir by Margarita López y Galarza containing over 20 brief chapters reflecting on her life and identity as a Mexican American, 1983. López y Galarza recounts her family history in Jalcocotán, Mexico and describes her pa...
Description:
Margarita López y Galarza de la Vega Linsley (1916-2000) was born in Jalcocotán, Mexico and immigrated to Sacramento, California with her family in 1920. She earned her bachelor's degree from University of California, Los Angeles and master's degre...
Subject (Geographic):
California., West (U.S.), California, Jalcocotán (Mexico), and Sacramento (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
López y Galarza, Margarita, 1916-2000. and Los Angeles County General Hospital.
Subject (Topic):
Americanization, Education, Elementary, Elementary schools, Health counselors, Immigrant children, Education, Immigrants, Mexican American children, Mexican American women, Mexican Americans, Religion, Railroads, Employees, Ranchers, Women, Race relations, Religious life and customs, and Social life and customs
