- keyword(s): * Years: 1500 to 1900
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K. N. Cowing Collection
The K. N. Cowing Collection contains five envelopes, one photograph, and 38 original letters, dated 1858-1861, from a young man detailing the tense years just before the American Civil War and his eventual enlistment in the Union Army at the outbreak of the conflict.
Mexican Household Accounting Diary
This collection contains a personal accounting diary kept for a Mexican household from 1858-1863, covering all ordinary household expenditures - most of which are grocery items.
R. D. Jamison Papers
This collection contains two letters from the Civil War era to "Camilla" and some school ephemera from the 1890s.
Caroline Danske Dandridge Collection
Simon Collier Collection
The Simon Collier Collection, 1858-2003, consists of correspondence, research, and artifacts related to Argentinian tango expert Simon Collier, 1939-2003.
George Terwilliger Collection
J. León Helguera Collection of Colombiana - Cundinamarca Election, 1859
This collection contains materials in one box about the Cundinamarca, Colombia election of 1859 collected by J. León Helguera.
William Mickle Papers
This collection largely consists of correspondence (including Civil War letters), but it also contains some photographs, diaries, and a Masonic rulebook.
James Hampton Kirkland Papers
Civil War Letter Collection
The Civil War Letter Collection, 1860-1865, consists of six letters written during the Civil War.
Amy Morel Collection
This collection contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings collected by Amy Morel during the Civil War and presented to George Peabody Teachers College by her sister, Martha Morel.
John Gilbert Rogers Biographical File
John Berrien Lindsley Papers
William H. Vanderbilt III Papers
John W. Morton Papers
This collection contains a handwritten memoir from 1861-1864 written by Captain John Watson Morton. The memoir details the story of "Morton's Battery" under General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Death Certificates for Enslaved and Free Africans in Havana
Elizabeth Lee Smith Civil War Letters Collection
This collection contains 116 letters written to Elizabeth Lee Smith during the American Civil War. The majority of the letters are from Jasper Newton Smith who Elizabeth would marry during the war. The letters concern the progress of the war and the budding romance between Jasper and Elizabeth.
William D. Elrod Civil War Letters
Mary Ella Duvall Diary
This collection contains the diary dated 1861-1867 of an educated young woman as she leaves school and reflects on the changing world around her due to the American Civil War.
Racist Envelope Collection
This collection contains two envelopes with racist descriptions. One is a gold envelope printed with the racist text "Alabama WILL NOT SUBMIT TO NEGRO RULE" dating to the 1868 presidential election. The second is a printed image of enslaved people escaping from a slaveowner related to the "Fort Monroe Doctrine".
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