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Creator:
Peerless Beauty Supplies.
Inclusive Dates:
1930-1930
Abstract:
Advertising broadside, featuring 20 smaller images of Black women's hairstyles
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Subject:
Richmond (Va.)
African Americans
Popular culture
African American women.
Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects.
Hair -- Social aspects.

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Collection Title:
Creator:
Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898.
Inclusive Dates:
1883-1883
Abstract:
Correspondence from abolitionist Parker Pillsbury.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Activism and social reform
African Americans
New York State
Abolitionists -- United States.

3.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Polk, P. H., 1898-1984.
Inclusive Dates:
1930-1930
Abstract:
Five portrait photographs (silver gelatin prints) taken by Black American photographer P.H. (Prentice Henry) Polk
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Subject:
Alabama.
Southern states -- Pictorial works.
Photographers.
African Americans
Photography
African American photographers.
African Americans -- Photographs.
Photographers -- United States.

4.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Powell, Harriet, fl. 1839.
Inclusive Dates:
1877-1941
Abstract:
Material relating to Tom Leonard and the 1839 escape of Harriet Powell, "white lady fugitive." Clippings from the Sunday Morning Times (Syracuse, New York), June 10, 1877, and a narrative explanation dated October 1941.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Memoirs.
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans
Activism and social reform
Abolitionists -- United States.
Slavery -- United States.

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Collection Title:
Creator:
Prisoners' Relief Committee
Inclusive Dates:
1952-1954
Abstract:
Prisoners' Relief Committee newsletters highlighting political prisoners and civil rights infringement in prisons.
Type of Material:
Newsletters.
Subject:
Prisoners.
Death row inmates.
Political prisoners.
Political prisoners' writings.
Prisoners' writings, American.
Mass incarceration -- United States.
Activism and social reform
African Americans
Journalism
Politics, government and public administration
Imprisonment.