Biography of Miriam D. Mann
Biographical information for Miriam D. Mann, one of the "human computers" for NASA
Text by Miriam Mann Harris, daughter of Miriam D. Mann.
NASA
2011-09-12
Rights held by Mann family.
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Mann.pdf
Contraband Dig In Hampton, Virginia
Hampton;
Photograph showing the results of a dig for the Hampton History Museum on the site of a "Contraband" camp. Holes like this were used by slaves to store personal belongings.
Duchess Harris
DeWitt Wallace Library at Macalester College
2014-07-18
Copyright by Duchess Harris
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Interview with Miss Mary Jane Wilson
Hampton University
Interview with Miss Mary Jane Wilson who graduated from the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in 1874.
Works Project Administration and the Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division.
WPA Slave Narrative Project, Virginia Narratives, Volume 17. Library of Congress.
Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division.
04/14/1937
Interviewer: Thelma Dunston
2 type-written pages, scanned into PDF-format.
General Samuel Chapman Armstrong
American Civil War, Hampton University, Education of Former Slaves
General Armstrong was instrumental in starting the Hampton University, then known as the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.
Library of Congress and Wikimedia.org
Drawing, Contraband, Fortress Monroe
American Civil War, Contrabands, Slavery
"Come back here, you black rascal." "Can't come back nohow, massa; Dis chile's CONTRABAN'"
Unknown
Library of Congress
1861
Excerpt: Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, passed at the session of 1869-'70
Excerpt from the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, passed at the session of 1869-'70 showing Virginia granting a charter establishing the Hampton Agricultural and Normal Institute.
Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, passed at the session of 1869-'70.
State of Virginia
Booker T. Washington
Hampton University
Photograph of Booker T. Washington, who graduated from the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.
Cheynes Studio, Hampton, Va.
Library of Congress
c1903.
According to the Library of Congress, No known restrictions on publication.
Wind Tunnel Under Construction
Langley; Hampton, Virginia;
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VIEW SOUTH THROUGH ENTRANCE CONE OF FULL-SCALE WIND TUNNEL UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Langley; NASA; Hampton, Virginia
Photocopy of an original photograph
Library of Congress
1930-09-12
No known restrictions
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Langley Research Center, Full-Scale Wind Tunnel, 224 Hunting Avenue, Hampton, Hampton, VA
Girls measuring piece of ground in arithmetic class at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952
Library of Congress
[1899 or 1900]
No known restrictions
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