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2.
- Published / Created:
- 1955.
- Call Number:
- JWJ Za C739 955co
- Image Count:
- 22
- Description:
- BEIN JWJ Za C739 955co: Original wrappers. Inscription of Mamie E. Bradley, Emmett Till's mother. and "Authentic pictures teken on the spot designed to meet public demand"--Cover.
- Publisher:
- Wither's Photographers
- Subject (Geographic):
- Mississippi and Mississippi.
- Subject (Name):
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955.
- Subject (Topic):
- African Americans, Crimes against, History, Racism, Trials (Murder), and Race relations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Complete photo story of Till murder case : first and only complete factual photo story of Till case
3.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1810 and 1820?]
- Call Number:
- File 659 810 Ea11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Advertisement for a girls' school in south London. An engraved vignette at the head of the sheet displays girls listening to a reading, while a vignette at the foot depicts a white and a black child embracing, presumably an indication of the proprietors' abolitionist sympathies
- Description:
- Title from item., Approximate date based on style of dress., Handbill with engraved text and engraved vignettes., Sheet trimmed, leaving thread margins., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., and England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Hotels, Schools, Girls, Education, School children, Race relations, and Reading
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > East House Seminary, for young ladies, Kennington Lane, Lambeth, by Misses Watts and Wood
4.
- Creator:
- South Dakota. Department of Immigration, creator
- Published / Created:
- [1890]
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc35 890soz 01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Print advertising opportunities for homes and land in the new state of South Dakota and offers official information from the Commissioner of Immigration in Aberdeen. Primary image is a female figure wearing a tiara labeled "South Dakota" and holding a paper in her left hand that reads "free homes" and in her right hand is a scroll showing images and names of public institutions; at her feet, a book open to the "Record of Progress" in the territory and state of South Dakota, from "permanent white settlement" in 1856 to the first state legislature in 1890. Text below title includes reference to the opening of the Sioux Reservation to homestead settlement
- Description:
- BEIN BrSides Zc35 890soz 01: Mounted on linen sheet 74 x 54 cm. and Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- F. H. Hagerty, Commissioner of Immigration and Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- South Dakota and Great Sioux Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Dakota Indians, Land tenure, Migration, Internal, Real property, Race relations, and Emigration and immigration
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Free homes, government lands, and cheap deeded lands in South Dakota
5.
- Creator:
- López y Galarza, Margarita, 1916-2000
- Published / Created:
- 1983.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-4481
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 88
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Photocopy of a typescript memoir by Margarita López y Galarza containing over 20 brief chapters reflecting on her life and identity as a Mexican American, 1983. López y Galarza recounts her family history in Jalcocotán, Mexico and describes her parents, brothers, and extended family members, many of whom were ranchers and railroad workers in California. Many of the stories concern her childhood in Sacramento, including her mother's role in the household, her experiences with religion, and her education. Several sections describe López y Galarza's elementary education in detail, including learning English and the program of Americanization at her elemenary school, which had a significant population of immigrant children, including Japanese Americans, Italian Americans, Irish Americans, and Mexican Americans. Other sections describe her father's opposition to her choice to attend college and become an American citizen, her career as a health educator at Los Angeles County General Hospital, and a visit to her birthplace in Jalcocotán with her daughter in 1972. Accompanied by a manuscript note from López y Galarza to a friend describing the process of writing the memoir and sharing family news, 1984
- Description:
- Margarita López y Galarza de la Vega Linsley (1916-2000) was born in Jalcocotán, Mexico and immigrated to Sacramento, California with her family in 1920. She earned her bachelor's degree from University of California, Los Angeles and master's degrees from University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley. She worked for the United States Department of Agriculture and was a health educator for Los Angeles County General Hospital, Kaiser Permanente, and the World Health Organization. López y Galarza was forced to legally change her first name to Marguerite when she became a United States citizen in 1940, because her American elementary school teachers had insisted on using the name Marguerite on her school records. She went by the nicknames Mago and Margo to family and friends., In English., and Title from title page.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California., West (U.S.), California, Jalcocotán (Mexico), and Sacramento (Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- López y Galarza, Margarita, 1916-2000. and Los Angeles County General Hospital.
- Subject (Topic):
- Americanization, Education, Elementary, Elementary schools, Health counselors, Immigrant children, Education, Immigrants, Mexican American children, Mexican American women, Mexican Americans, Religion, Railroads, Employees, Ranchers, Women, Race relations, Religious life and customs, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Happiness is being Mexican : typescript photocopy
6.
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 303
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 161
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Draft, holograph, corrected, of a novel about a young woman from New York who learns of her African-American ancestry while travelling through Florida, Tennesee, and other parts of the southern United States in the mid to late nineteenth century. The novel, by an unidentified author, addresses issues of race, slavery, and women's rights during the Reconstruction. Inscribed "Jan. 28, 1876, New Orleans" at the top of page 65. Pages 13 through 16 excised
- Description:
- In English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States, Nashville (Tenn.), and New York (N.Y.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Race relations, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Slavery, Women's rights, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Savannah, or, the form of a servant, 1875-1876
7.
- Creator:
- Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899, compiler
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1874]
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 626
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 213
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A photograph album, owned at one time by Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill, chief of the San Francisco police, with identification photographs of Chinese and Chinese-American men, circa 1874. Each photograph includes the name of the individual and an identification number between 875 and 1474. Names and identification numbers also appear in the margin of the album's pages
- Description:
- Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill (1834-1899) of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was chief of the San Francisco Police Department in California from 1873 December to 1875 December., Captions in English., Captions in the negative., Title devised by cataloger., Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger., and Embossed on front cover: "T. G. Cockrill / Chief of Police / Chinese no. 3".
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, California., and San Francisco (Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899. and San Francisco (Calif.). Police Department.
- Subject (Topic):
- Chinese, Chinese Americans, Identification photographs, Police, Race relations, and Social conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Album of identification photographs of Chinese men].
8.
- Creator:
- Beitler, Lawrence, photographer
- Published / Created:
- [1930 August 7]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS FILE 694
- Container / Volume:
- (File)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Photographic postcard of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, taken by Lawrence Beitler. Shipp and Smith were murdered by a mob in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930
- Description:
- Lawrence Beitler (1885-1960) was an American studio photographer., Caption in English., Title devised by cataloger., Place and date of creation supplied by cataloger., and Printed caption on verso.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Indiana, Marion., Marion, Grant County, and Marion (Ind.)
- Subject (Name):
- Beitler, Lawrence., Shipp, Thomas, 1911-1930, and Smith, Abram, -1930
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial, African Americans, Violence against, Lynching, Racism, and Race relations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Photographic postcard of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith].
