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James A. Cobbs collection
Collection
Identifier: 771
Content Description
This collection consists mainly of photographs related to the live of judge and law professor James A. Cobb. The earliest, though undated, photographs appear to be of faculty at a university, perhaps that of Howard University in Washington, D.C. Included is a mounted photograph of a group of men posed in front of a building, a mounted photograph of a group of women before the same building, and one of the two groups dining together outside. Two photographs of Judge Cobb include a portrait in...
Dates:
Other: 1923-1957
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Heslip-Ruffin Family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 179
Scope and Contents
The Heslip-Ruffin Family Papers pertain to several generations of the Ruffin family beginning with Nancy Lewis and George W. Ruffin, who were both ante-bellum free Blacks. The collection includes correspondence between various family members and letters received by members of the Heslip-Ruffin Family, including those by Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Legal documents, biographical data, news clippings, printed ephemera, and photographs document the achievements of various...
Dates:
Created: 1822-1946; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1972
Found in:
Amistad Research Center