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- "A Negro New Jerusalem."
- 1902-11-08
- This article criticizes an "immigration scheme" designed to attract African American citizens to a city in the midwestern United States, where "everything will be in the hands of the negro" (including city management, industry, and education). The...
- 2010-01-25
- "Daily Record of Boys' and Girls' Home Gardens," published by the National War Garden Commission and issued to students for use with their home gardens.
- 1917
- At the beginning of the registers, students were to sketch the layout of their gardens. On the next pages they were to record the kinds of fruits and vegetables grown; the dates of planting and harvesting; the type of work done; the cost of seeds,...
- 2010-12-07
- "It Is Not To Be In Oak Park."
- 1958-08-27
- This editorial was written after African American citizens submitted a petition asking for Montgomery city parks to be integrated; the piece was reprinted on December 24 in response to a federal lawsuit filed to protest park segregation. The author...
- 2010-04-23
- "Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting a Statement of the Sales of Public Lands in the Alabama Territory."
- 1818
- Statement submitted to the United States House of Representatives, detailing the sale of public lands in the Alabama Territory between 1809 and 1818. The accompanying chart gives an annual report for each land office in the territory (Huntsville,...
- 2010-07-15
- "Many Issues Fall to Low Levels on Wave of Selling."
- 1929-10-28
- This article, written the day before "Black Tuesday," reports that "prices broke wide open" in the stock market during the day: "Many of the leaders sold close to the low levels established in last Thursday's dramatic collapse in prices, and some...
- 2010-01-25
- "The Hoosier Club Plan."
- 1921-02-10
- Advertisement for Hoosier cabinets sold at the Jacobs store in Birmingham, Alabama: "This plan enables you to place one of the famous Hoosier Kitchen Cabinets in your home on payment of ONE DOLLAR--balance payable on club plan terms of convenient...
- 2011-11-21
- "The Shoppers Guide to Communist Imports."
- Flier listing items produced in nine communist countries and sold in the United States. The publication was issued by the Committee to Warn of the Arrival of Communist Merchandise on the Local Business Scene, an organization based in Miami, Florida.
- 2009-09-11
- Account book kept by Minor Winn Gracey while administering the estate of his brother, Robert Sinclair Gracey.
- 1842-00-00
- Robert Gracey died in 1841. The book is divided into three sections. The first notes the payment and collection of debts from 1842 to 1845. The second section deals with the accounts of Minor and his brother John Ivey Gracey; it records the...
- 2009-09-04
- Advertisement for Coca-Cola from the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1914-08-15
- The advertisement promises that "Bottled Coca-Cola is sold in every store in the City of Montgomery."
- 2009-08-24
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by Augustine Burge of Petersburg, Virginia, from Robert Pitcher.
- 1815
- Burge purchased the slave, woman named Mary Ann, for $400 on November 25, 1815. On the back of the receipt are three further transactions involving Mary Ann: first, she was transferred to John Butterworth on April 6, 1818; then she was sold to...
- 2012-01-27
- Copy of an agreement between F. M. Thomason and B. L. Smith, regarding the exchange of two slave women.
- 1864-04-09
- Thomason exchanged a twenty-four-year-old woman named Angeline for a twenty-three-year-old woman named Alpha. He then sold Alpha to L. G. Dye for $3,000. This copy of the bill was made on April 26, 1869.
- 2009-06-25
- Letter from Frank Carter in Flomaton, Alabama, to Governor Benjamin Miller, and the response written by John H. Peach, Governor Miller's legal advisor.
- 1934-03
- In the first letter, written March 21, 1934, Carter explains that he is a sixty-four-year-old blind African American with no family or means of support. His home was recently sold to pay back taxes, and he asks the governor for advice and financial...
- 2009-09-15
- Letter from Henry Semple in camp at Dog River Factory near Mobile, Alabama, to his wife, Emily.
- 1861
- During the Civil War, Semple served as a captain of an artillery battery organized in Montgomery (known as Semple's Battery). He was later appointed a major and transferred to Mobile. In the letter Semple describes conditions in his new camp, where...
- 2011-06-01
- Letter from J. W. Stuckey in Bishopville, South Carolina, to S. Gibbons in Mobile, Alabama.
- 1839-02-26
- In the letter Stuckey discusses the slave Warren, whom he had sold to Gibbons the previous year. A physician hired by Gibbons diagnosed the boy with "chronic rheumatism," but Stuckey maintains that he was never ill before the sale. While he will...
- 2009-06-25
- Letter from James H. Hawkins in Sparta, Alabama, to James Dellet in Claiborne, Alabama.
- 1835-07-10
- In the letter Hawkins describes a case involving a slave woman who was purchased by a freedman, and then reclaimed and sold several times. He asks Dellet to represent Napoleon and Massina Starke, who want to recover the woman.
- 2009-06-25
- Letter from S. C. Richardson to James Dellet in Claiborne, Alabama.
- 1838-11-16
- In the letter Richardson describes mules that are being sold by a man from Kentucky, and he asks if Dellet would like to purchase any.
- 2009-06-25
- Letter from W. Mobly to James Dellet in Claiborne, Alabama.
- 1830-08-12
- In the letter Mobly discusses a judgment Dellet obtained against Benjamin Darby, requiring him to pay several hundred dollars. If he cannot pay, the slaves of his ward, William B. Darby, will have to be sold instead. Mobly asks that Dellet delay...
- 2009-06-25
- Letters from S. Gibbons in Mobile, Alabama, to James Dellet in Claiborne, Alabama.
- 1838-06
- In the letters Gibbons discusses a public sale of property belonging to the proprietors of Goodman, Miller & Co. The property is being sold to pay off debts, and there is disputing among the interested parties, particularly over several slaves.
- 2009-06-25
- Letters to James Dellet, regarding the sale of two slave boys that he is interested in purchasing.
- 1838-11
- The first letter, from the firm of Norris and Keith in Mobile, Alabama, discusses the pending sale and asks Dellet to instruct Colonel Richardson, who will handle the transaction. In the second letter, S. C. Richardson informs Dellet that he...
- 2009-06-25
- Plantation book kept by D. H. Smith in 1858.
- 1856-00-00
- Smith served as an overseer on Willis P. Bocock's Waldwick Plantation in Marengo County, Alabama. The book records births and deaths among the slaves; time lost for sickness and visits by the doctor; articles sold from and purchased for the...
- 2009-09-04