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Lincoln Normal School Photographic Albums
This collection consists of two personal albums with photographs of teachers, administrators, and students at the Lincoln Normal School, an early African-American school in Marion, Alabama. The albums include formal group portraits, informal photographs from everyday life, and images of the school's surroundings.
Sarah Williams to William Ingram Letter
On February 8, 1850, Sarah Williams, a Methodist from Liverpool, England, wrote a letter to her brother-in-law, William Ingram, a British immigrant and committed abolitionist residing in Petersburg, Virginia. This letter provides a rare personal glimpse into the life of a man who would become one of the most daring figures in the Underground Railroad movement in the Southern United States.
The Injustice of Poll Taxes Broadside
Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States
The Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States contains receipts, correspondence, and other materials that document the presence of enslaved African Americans in the US South.
Wilhelmina Simpson Robinson Papers
This collection contains materials relating to Simpson's participation in the Rural Project, a 1930s "program of supervised student teaching in selected crowded rural Negro schools of Montgomery County [Alabama]." It includes photographs of Tankersley, Peoples Village, Ramer, Little Zion, Jericho, and Pine Grove schools, and information about students' activities.