Browse the Database
Items with subject 'African American History'
Showing results 37–48 of 93
James Brown Family Photograph Collection
by Butler, Paul (1880 – 1920)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains various photocopies and photograph negatives of the James Brown family. It includes all photocopied black and white photographs, many dating back to the late 19th or early 20th century. It also contains the negative film strips and initial produced photographs covered in protective seals. Also included is a newspaper photograph of artist Arnold Roberts detailing the Dames Quarter area in which the Brown family lived. The photographs were produced by Paul Butler, and the Times Newspaper photo was taken by Bill Duck.
Jean Long collection
by Long, Jean (1772 – 1978)
6 boxes, 1 oversize folder (7 linear feet)
This collection of material acquired by Jean Long deals with the history of Maryland including the islands of Deal, Smith and St. Michael's and customs. It contains booklets, articles, scrapbooks, Maryland Hall of Records Bulletins and several Wheeler leaflets. In addition, it contains newspapers, magazines and material covering historic homes and places such as Fairmount Academy. The four Maryland Hall of Records Bicentennial Bulletins for April-July 1776 were donated by William Kline to complete the set.
Joseph Moore collection
by Moore, Joseph (1849, 2006)
10 boxes, 1 oversize folder (13 linear feet)
Joseph Moore, a Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland attorney, devoted the better part of 20-plus years to researching and writing on the trial and outcome of the murder of Green Davis and his family by Euel Lee aka Orphan Jones, 1863-2006. The series of documents culminated in the publication, “Murder on Maryland’s Eastern Shore: Race, politics, and the Case of Orphan Jones”. Records document the proceedings of the events surrounding the Davis family murders. Presentments and court materials by Lee’s attorney Bernard Ades with corresponding newspaper accounts reflect the legal proceedings of confessed murderer Euel Lee / Orphan Jones, and his ultimate death by lynching in the Baltimore County Jail, 1933. Records within this set also reflect Moore’s vested interest in Worcester County history, including the Henry and Dirickson families, as well as the Civil War, specifically Purnell’s Legion, and the freedmen of color who served for the Union and Confederate Armies. Photostatic copies of manumissions, and general enrollment records for the duration of the war, as well as an original receipt for enslaved persons in 1863, reveal Moore’s commitment to Worcester County, Maryland.
Kirkland Hall collection
by Hall, Kirkland (1940 – 2010s)
1 folder (0 linear feet)
This 58-image digital collection was created by Dr. Kirkland Hall and primarily documents the Negro League team, Oaksville Eagles, located near Princess Anne, Maryland. Included are photographs, newspaper clippings, and other documents related to the team, other Negro League teams and players, and the Oaksville baseball field.
L.Q. Powell collection
by Unknown (1724 – 1976)
2 boxes (3 linear feet)
The L.Q. Powell collection contains early legal and political records pertaining to Somerset County, Maryland including tax lists, voters list, and court records as well as certificates for elections of Judge, Sheriff, and Surveyor. It details church activities through parish records, cemetery records and individual accounts of churches. One series is dedicated to genealogical histories of several families including the Powell family. Of interest to researchers may be the materials on the Civil War and Free Blacks in the final series.
Laura J. Weldon paper
by Weldon, Laura J. (2012)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
Two copies of the genealogical research project "To Chart Her Own Course: Mary Dennis Whittington Purnell and Free Black Women of Antebellum Maryland" written by Laura J. Weldon of the Dorchester County Historical Society.
Lift Every Voice Project
by Wicomico Public Libraries (circa 2020)
1 box (0.25 linear feet)
The "Lift Every Voice" project was aimed to engage local teens with older local members of the African American community who could provide memories and recollections of race relations and racial injustice in Salisbury and Delmarva. Along with these interviews, participating teens would meet in a community poetry workshop to create a community poem from the content of their interviews.
Linda Duyer African-American History Collection
by Duyer, Linda (1879 – 1999)
3 boxes, 1 oversize box (4.25 linear feet)
This collection contains photos, documents, newspaper articles, and publications related to African American history on Delmarva, particularly in Salisbury and Wicomico County. It includes genealogical research, research related to Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad, and documents related to Charles H. Chipman.
Louis Purnell Descendants Day records
by Purnell, Louis (1995 – 2000)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
Descendants Day presentation material compiled by Mark Purnell on his ancestor Louis (Lewis) Purnell (1840-1865), and includes his supporting research for his ancestors manumission, muster roll in the 9th Infantry of the United States Colored Troop, and record of death at the age of 25.
Marasco Family Farm Photographic Prints
by Marasco Family Farm (1935 – 1942)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
Eight black and white photographic prints of the Marasco family farm located in Powellville, Maryland.
Marion and Carrie Fitchett photographs
by Unknown (1915 – 1930)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
Series of sepia-toned photographic prints of Marion and Carrie Fitchett, African American caretakers of the R.H. Milbourne Home, Kingston, Somerset County, Maryland. The images, 1915-1930, depict the Fritchett's in fine examples of clothing which were given to them by the Milbourne family.
Mary Klein collection
by Klein, Mary (1991 – 1994)
1 box (0.5 linear feet)
This collection contains examples and results of her research on the subject of African Americans on the Eastern Shore as well as the Snow Hill Community and the Dirickson Farm in the area of Berlin both located in Worcester County, Maryland. The first series covers the subject of African Americans including the history of San Domingo, a community of free African Americans dating back to the early part of the 18th century on the Eastern Shore and a manuscript on the activities of the Church of England regarding slaves and their position in the church. The second series examines life in Snow Hill, Maryland through the investigation of a day book dating back to 1838. Dirickson Farm or Sandy Point Farm in Berlin, Maryland is the focus of the third and final series. The farm and its two-story brick house was one of the largest structures on the Eastern Shore prior to the Revolutionary War. The farm functioned as a plantation, once comprising as many as 1800 acres.