Scope and Contents From the Collection: Photograph album created by Thomas "Tommy" Matthew William Green, Jr. who served in the United States Army during World War II.  He was a second generation African American soldier, his father, Thomas M. W. Green was a Sergeant - Cavalry Detachment in the Army and is buried at West Point Military Academy Cemetery.  Green was part of a segregated unit and his album features photos of his friends and family along with other soldiers with whom he served.  The photographs along with some of his...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Letter, n.y. January 14, Dolley P. Madison [Richmond, Va.] to Margaret Lowther Page (Mrs. John Page), Rosewell, York [County, Va.]. Written before John Page's death in 1808. James Madison served in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1799 and 1800 and the letter is postmarked Richmond. Discusses her disappointment that she and her husband missed seeing the Pages and the Bishop James Madison. Entreats the Pages to spend the next summer with the Madisons in Orange; hopes Mrs. McClane will...

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Writ from the King's Court in Dublin, Ireland, to the Sheriff of the County of Carlow, Ireland, 28 November 1809, ordering that John Trustouthy relinquish possession of Thomas Loveland's farm and pay 100 pounds for damages, signed by H. Butler and Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, Clerk of the Pleas of Exchequer, with affidavit signed by John Cornwall, Sheriff, testifying that conveyance of the farm was carried out on verso.

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Photograph album of a trip to Japan consisting of 37 photographs. Many of them are labeled with such places as Namba, Sumiyuski Shrine, and Ohama Park. There are also photographs of rail cars, landscapes, monks, Japanese competing in athletic events, and beach scenes. Two photographs are labeled Natives of Honolulu, 1898. One photograph is a cabinet card and the back is labeled Aunt Lena Schwamb? and Aunt Hilda Luckner.

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Land grant for 80 acres in Ohio to James McCormick. Signed by A. Van Burke for Martin Van Buren

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Letter written to "Katy" (Catherine Bammen), poem and resolution written about the death of a dog.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Medical ledger of James Keen, a physician in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Notes about visits to patients which include treatments, medicines dispensed, prescriptions, notes, calculations, and payment records. There are over 60 entries for the treatment of enslaved individuals and several are named. One entry notes the removal of a tumor from a "Negro Woman." The last page of the ledger lists births of foals and their lineage.A handwritten note is on page two, “James...

Scope and Contents Land certificate granted to John Bourland of Hardin County, Tennessee with President John Tyler's name signed by son and secretary Robert Tyler. John Bourland was granted 159.80 acres of land in Pontotoc, Mississippi. The certificate was granted in adherence to several treaties between Chickasaw Native Americans and the United States including those dated October 20, 1832, May 24, 1834 and the act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820, entitled "An act making further provision for the sale...

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Painting of a Picador or bullfighter on horse. Identity of painter is unknown.