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Letter

 File — Box: Small Collections Box 102, Folder: 1
Content Description From the Collection: Five page letter to George Blow from his father dated July 8, 1850. In it, he discusses the utter failure of a band saw purchased for his saw mill which cost a great many days of work to his mill and subsequent loss of revenue. He also details a business agreement with a gentleman over the building of a ship. He particularly makes a comment over the choice of labor hands used in its construction arguing that his negro labor, is just as hard working and costs less money than the proposed...
Dates: 1850 July 8
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / George Blow Letter

Letters

 File — Box: Small Collections Box 102, Folder: 1
Content Description From the Collection:

About 40 letters from George Beasley to his sweetheart, Rosa L. Johnson written between June 1941 and May 1945. Beasley was a Sergeant in the Army stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Camp Rucker, Alabama, and then overseas in France and Belgium. He served with the 3rd and 4th Battalion of the Armed Force Replacement Training Center, a segregated African American unit.

Dates: 1941-1945
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / George Alfred Beasley Letters

Letters

 File — Box: Small Collections Box 102, Folder: 2
Content Description From the Collection:

About 40 letters from George Beasley to his sweetheart, Rosa L. Johnson written between June 1941 and May 1945. Beasley was a Sergeant in the Army stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Camp Rucker, Alabama, and then overseas in France and Belgium. He served with the 3rd and 4th Battalion of the Armed Force Replacement Training Center, a segregated African American unit.

Dates: 1941-1945
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / George Alfred Beasley Letters

Letters

 File — Box: Small Collections Box 102, Folder: 3
Content Description From the Collection:

About 40 letters from George Beasley to his sweetheart, Rosa L. Johnson written between June 1941 and May 1945. Beasley was a Sergeant in the Army stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Camp Rucker, Alabama, and then overseas in France and Belgium. He served with the 3rd and 4th Battalion of the Armed Force Replacement Training Center, a segregated African American unit.

Dates: 1941-1945
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / George Alfred Beasley Letters

Letters

 File — Box: Small Collections Box 102, Folder: 4
Content Description From the Collection:

About 40 letters from George Beasley to his sweetheart, Rosa L. Johnson written between June 1941 and May 1945. Beasley was a Sergeant in the Army stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Camp Rucker, Alabama, and then overseas in France and Belgium. He served with the 3rd and 4th Battalion of the Armed Force Replacement Training Center, a segregated African American unit.

Dates: 1941-1945
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / George Alfred Beasley Letters