Does your institution have photos, scrapbooks, or other materials that would be great to add to the African American History and Culture subject in PA Photos and Documents? Ask us how you can add your materials!“African American History and Culture” was added as a new subject heading available to enhance the discovery of related collections available in PA Photos and Documents. The following collections are included in the new subject heading: Germantown Historical Society / Historic Germantown – Pamphlet Boxes African-American History Collection This collection includes various annual reports, programs, letters, financial information, newspaper clippings, and ephemera documenting the history of the African American community in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood and vicinity, from circa 1868-1939, and the roles of women in the following organizations. Includes materials associated with the Union Mission for Colored People, the Industrial School for Colored Women, and the Colored Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans Home. State Library of Pennsylvania – The Colonization Herald and General Register Newspaper A newspaper of the Pennsylvania and New York Colonization societies, covering immigrant issues, African American affairs, religious tracts and tract societies, and various other issues. Also reports on the Back to Africa movement and African affairs in other countries, such as Haiti. Published fortnightly at first, then weekly, in 1838, then published monthly in at least January-June 1839, beginning with the New Series, which restarted numbering.
|
