Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials collected by Paul and Gracia Hardacre. The collection includes correspondence, ephemera, and a photograph. Correspondence includes one letter each from Booker T. Washington and Rosetta Douglass Sprague. Materials also include a photograph of Frederick Douglass and an autograph with quotation from Douglass. In the Booker T. Washington letter, from 1901, Washington thanks William B. Hoswell of Chicago for his donation of the dressing gown and...

Content Description This collection is comprised of photocopies of correspondence from Emmett J. Scott and Margaret Washington. Also included are photographic post cards of various leaders of the Tuskegee Institute. This collection also includes a commemorative postage stamp with the official envelope from the first date of issue of the postage stamp marking the centennial of Booker T. Washington (1956). Finally, the collection contains a campaign card promoting Fannie L. Meek's candidacy as a Republican...

Scope and Contents The Gerald Norwood Collection on Booker T. Washington consists of three letters from Washington to journalist and author Ralph Delahaye Paine, a set of newspaper clippings from the New-York Weekly Tribune Review pertaining to Washington and Tuskegee Institute, and other ephemera related to Washington. A portion of the collection centers on Washington's writing and publication of the book Working with the Hands, which was...