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Box 1

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Jim Crow Era, 1900-1963 and undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Identifier: id261897
Scope and Contents

Publications from the Jim Crow era.

Dates: 1900-1963 and undated
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection / Series 1: African Americans

Songs of 1900, 1900

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 24, Object: 1
Identifier: id261897
Scope and Contents

This is a book of rag-time melodies, which includes advertisements, sheet music, and lyrics.

Dates: 1900
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection / Series 1: African Americans / Jim Crow Era

Essex County High School Yearbook, 1940

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 24, Object: 2
Identifier: id261897
Scope and Contents

This item is the yearbook of the African American high school in Essex County, Virginia. The yearbook includes photographs, poems, and advertisements.

Dates: 1940
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection / Series 1: African Americans / Jim Crow Era

Travel Guide to Negro Hotels and Guest Houses, 1942

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 24, Object: 3
Identifier: id261897
Scope and Contents

This travel guide of “negro” hotels was published by Afro-American Newspapers. The guide includes a map of the East Coast and advertisements from multiple hotels.

Dates: 1942
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection / Series 1: African Americans / Jim Crow Era