African American Families Initiative
Enhancing African American Documentary Resources in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill
Creator: Holmes, Wilmot Stuart.
Collection number: 1525
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Abstract: Family correspondence, chiefly 1840-1854, and other papers of Henry McCall Holmes (1790-1854), a physician of Charleston and Greenville districts, S.C.; of his wife, Eliza Ford Continue reading “Wilmot Stuart Holmes collection, 1781-1932 (bulk 1840-1854).”
Creator: Penn School papers, 1862-2004.
Collection number: 3615
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Abstract: The Penn School on Saint Helena Island, S.C., was founded during the Civil War by northern philanthropists and missionaries for former plantation slaves in an area occupied by the United States Army. Over the years, with Continue reading “Penn School papers, 1862-2004.”
Creator: Parker, John Milliken, 1863-1939.
Collection number: 1184
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Abstract: John Milliken Parker (1863-1939) was governor of Louisiana, 1920-1924; member of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange and the New Orleans Board of Trade, the Continue reading “John Milliken Parker papers, 1902-1938 (bulk 1909-1920).”