Family history -- African Americans
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Tri-Cities Chapter, Friends of Amistad collection
Collection
Identifier: 365
Content Description
Collected materials from the Tri-Cities Chapter of the Friends of Amistad, which was based in Elyria, Lorain, and Oberlin, Ohio, and active in the 1970s and 1980s. Collection includes collected materials on family history, African Americans in the Midwest, and other topics. Includes family histories on descendents of Godfrey Brown; a biographical sketch of Thelma C. Quinn Smith; collected materials on Curtis and Pearletha Nelson and Wanda and Howard O. Jones; memoirs of Esther L. Hassell; a...
Dates:
1822-1981
Turner Family photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2233
Content Description
Early twentieth century photographs of an African American family. Some depict soldiers in uniform, circa WWI, and some photographs are marked New Iberia, Louisiana.
Dates:
Other: 1900-1918
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Turner Family photographs
Dorothy E. Yepez papers
Collection
Identifier: 399
Content Description
The papers primarily document the career of Dorothy E. Yepez, and significantly highlight the contributions of an African American businesswoman and art gallery owner in the United States. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of art, Black history, education and the business documentation of Yepez’s career, with collected files from her art gallery and social activities. Yepez’s papers contain business and some personal correspondence; biographical sketches of Yepez and artists...
Dates:
Other: circa 1864-1990, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Dorothy E. Yepez papers