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  • Subject is exactly "African American history"
Ms1988_009_oddfellowsHouseholdOfRuthCorresp_postcard_1916_1128a.jpg

Correspondence between two members of the Blacksburg chapter of the Household of Ruth, a women's auxiliary organization to the Grand United Order of…
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St Johns Day: St Paul A.M.E. Church, Blacksburg, VA (exact date unknown).
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Handwritten Watson property deed (exact date unknown).
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House and Lot bill of sale, Vaughn .
Vaughn_deed.jpg

Handwritten Vaughn property deed (exact date unknown).
ThanksgivingProgram.jpg

Thanksgiving service program of Grand United Order of Odd Fellows (exact date unknown).
PhillipsThesis_SchoolfromSW.jpg

Photograph of "Negro school house" building (ca. 1948) in Blacksburg. From "A Negro Neighborhood for Blacksburg, Virginia," by Martha Shupp Phillilps.…
PhillipsMap.jpg

Map of early Blacksburg showing "present location of the negro population" (exact date unknown).
PennStreetChurch1948.jpg

Drawing of Penn Street Church.
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Laura Lee Anderson and unnamed individual (exact date unknown).
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New Town House 2 (exact date unknown).
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New Town House (exact date unknown).
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New Town house with white car under carport (exact date unknown).
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Ginger Wagner and unnamed individual sitting on porch of a New Town house (exact date unknown).
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Black and white aerial photograph showing the Town of Blacksburg and New Town's location within it. New Town location designated by red arrow.
Ms1988-009_OddFellows_B1F57_Letter_1936_0410.jpg

Marketing letter promoting regalia and materials for Thanksgiving Services from The Floding Company, Atlanta.
Ms1988-009_OddFellows_B1F55_Journal1.jpg

Excerpt from the national Odd Fellow's Journal
Ms1988-009_OddFellows_B1F27_DuesBook_pg02.jpg

Handwritten list of names and dues paid at Tadmore Light Lodge #6184, Blacksburg Va.
Ms1988-009_OddFellows_B1F22_RitualBook2_pg01.jpg

Excerpts from the second ritual book of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, relating texts, hymns, passwords, and laws for lodges.
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A photograph of a tenant farmer known as Aaron with a horse. Taken around 1930, while Aaron was working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr.,…
Ms2009-110_Photo5.jpg

This photograph shows a tenant farmer known as Aaron and two other unidentified people on the front porch of a tenant house on the John T. Lewis, Jr.,…
Ms2009-110_Photo4.jpg

A photograph of a tenant farmer known as Aaron working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia. Taken around 1930.
Ms2009-110_Photo3.jpg

This photograph depicts the house of a tenant farmer known as Aaron working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville,…
Ms2009-110_Photo2.jpg

This photograph depicts the tenant house of a tenant farmer known as Aaron working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville,…
Ms2009-110_Photo1.jpg

Photograph of the home of a tenant farmer known as Aaron working a piece of land on the John T. Lewis, Jr., estate in Clarksville, Virginia. Taken…
Ms2011_015_WilsonDiary1913_0frontcover.jpg

Jeffrey Thomas Wilson (1843-1929) was a former slave who spent most of his life in and around Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia. He outlived four wives…
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