Content Description From the Collection: Two photo albums, created and annotated by Emily Bayne Barfield. The black cloth bound, string-tied, 11 x 7.25 album contains around 239 black and white photographs. It begins with Barfield's time at Camp Junaluska, a girls' summer camp in Waynesville, North Carolina, and ends with images from her studies at Georgia State College for Women, located in Milledgeville, Georgia. The second album bound in leatherette contains around 105 black and white photographs compiled by Barfield at Sullins...

Content Description From the Collection: Two photo albums, created and annotated by Emily Bayne Barfield. The black cloth bound, string-tied, 11 x 7.25 album contains around 239 black and white photographs. It begins with Barfield's time at Camp Junaluska, a girls' summer camp in Waynesville, North Carolina, and ends with images from her studies at Georgia State College for Women, located in Milledgeville, Georgia. The second album bound in leatherette contains around 105 black and white photographs compiled by Barfield at Sullins...

Content Description Two photo albums, created and annotated by Emily Bayne Barfield. The black cloth bound, string-tied, 11 x 7.25 album contains around 239 black and white photographs. It begins with Barfield's time at Camp Junaluska, a girls' summer camp in Waynesville, North Carolina, and ends with images from her studies at Georgia State College for Women, located in Milledgeville, Georgia. The second album bound in leatherette contains around 105 black and white photographs compiled by Barfield at Sullins...

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One, three page letter from H. W. Ellis, an emancipated emigrant missionary in Liberia, to Charles D. Drake in New York.

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A three page letter written and signed by Thomas Walker, an African American emigrant teacher in Liberia.

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A four page letter from a woman who lived in Petersburg named Maria to her aunt, Flavia Converse. The letter is signed M.S. with the last name illegible.

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Four theater broadsides advertising the Boston Academy of Music's productions for November and December of 1860, Charlotte Cushman is given top billing on each. Cushman (1816-1876) was one of the greatest actors of her era and an open lesbian.

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A six page letter including a preliminary estate inventory from Juan Tomás Mejía, a Dominican friar. In the letter, Mejía requests that he be granted a license to make an official inventory of the estate of his late sister, María de Buitrón y Mujica, who owned property in Mexico City, as well as in Guanajuato. Included in the preliminary inventory are the names and ages of three people enslaved, Magdalena, Petrona, and Nicolás.

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A thirty-nine page Christmas memento book made for members of the Signal Corps Female Telephone Operators Unit. This memento contains letters of appreciation from commanding officers, commendation notes for the unit, thanks for the unit's service, an essay praising their work, three photographs of the officers who wrote the appreciation letters, two photographs of Corps members at work, and an alphabetical list of the women who served.

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Two, one page letters with envelopes from Nikki Giovanni to Dr. Barry Beckham. The letter dated May 7, 1989 regards Giovanni's son. The letter dated March 22, 1989 states that Giovanni has been trying to contact Dr. Beckham unsuccessfully.

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The civil war diary of Horatio S. Carnrite, who enlisted in the 184th New York Infantry regiment. This collection contains the 134 page diary along with a 56 page handwritten transcription. There are a few mentions of a Black cavalry regiment and also of a raid into Confederate territory by Union soldiers led by a Black woman.

Content warning: contains language that is derogatory towards enslaved people, as well as towards people of color.