Box OS0015

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This collection contains a letter from Samuel R. Curtis to his brother in Mount Vernon, Ohio, about their property. He expresses his opinion of the Whig party, specifically President John Tyler. In the letter, Curtis, also a member of the Whig party, writes that he has become disheartened by the actions of President Tyler.

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This collection consists of a single letter from William H. Seward to Nious Smith of Columbus, Ohio, written from Albany and dated September 22, 1842. In the letter, Seward discusses the national political situation and the Whigs' prospects in the upcoming congressional election. The collection also includes a handwritten transcript of the original record.

Scope and Contents One large manila envelope labeled "Black Kentuckians" in Wade Hall's handwriting, with a return address for the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights in Louisville, Kentucky. Inside the envelope are some printed materials about the Kentucky Commision on Human Rights's 1996 poster series "A Gallery of Great Black Kentuckians" and copies of posters of nineteen individuals in the series. One poster of Mae Street Kidd was signed by Kidd; a pencilled note from Wade Hall indicates: "signed by ASK -...

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This file contains a poster featuring a drawing of Martin Luther King Jr. by C. Downey that includes the poem "He Changed the Course of History" by African American poet Tommye Nious.

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Four copies of The Chicago Defender, a newspaper founded in 1905 and aimed at the African American community. They include pages of cartoons, with one cartoon skewering a racist Southern character named "Mr. Jim Crow." The copies are from the weeks of November 27, and December 4, 11, and 25, 1948.

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This collection contains letters, postcards, photographs, and other ephemera from Nazi Germany.