McBride Rare Books (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Nathan E. Edwards Letter
Collection
Identifier: MC 2682
Content Description
The collection contains a letter from Arkansas State Representative Nathan E. Edwards, writing from Grand Lake, Arkansas to Elizabeth Adams Snow of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The letter is on Arkansas State House of Representatives stationery. An addendum at the end of the letter, likely added by one of Elizabeth Snow's children, notes "This letter is from one of Grandma Snow's old servants." Edwards refers to his interest in hearing from Snow about his "childhood home" and those he knew growing...
Dates:
Feb. 10, 1894
Frost-Trigg Lumber Company Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MC 2688
Content Description
The collection includes a scrapbook album containing photographs related to the Frost-Trigg Lumber Company, as well as a pamphlet titled "1907 Catalogue of Photographs of the Frost-Trigg Lumber Company for Special Album Presented to Mrs. Ben Collins by R. D. Collins" that includes captions for the images included in the scrapbook. Inscribed on the cover is the message "To Mrs. Ben Collins from R.D. Collins"; R.D. Collins was assistant general manager for the Frost-Trigg Lumber Company's...
Dates:
circa 1900-1907
Hempstead County Rural Education Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 2683
Content Description
The collection contains one unsigned typescript letter to Wallace Buttrick, requesting support for Hempstead County schools, and three reports compiled by Hempstead County teacher R. E. Tate for the Jeanes Foundation's Negro Rural School Fund.
Dates:
1914-1917
Mary Ng'ayu Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: MC 2647
Content Description
Photograph album created by Mary Njeri Ng'ayu, an international college student from Kenya, while she was in the United States between 1960-1963. The album includes a number of photographs on the campus of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, including of the Cox Administration Building, dormitories, the Library and Fine Arts Building, a graduation ceremony, and a parade.Other scenes in Little Rock include the “colored entrance” to a building with Cook’s...
Dates:
1960-1963