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
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
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.
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
image/jpeg
English
Image
IMG_0937
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.
text
English
Mann.pdf
Miriam D. Mann
Photograph of Miriam D. Mann
Unknown photographer
DeWitt Wallace Library at Macalester College
~1950s
Copyright held by Duchess Harris (family of Miriam D. Mann)
image/jpec
English
Image
President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt signing a declaration.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96522303/
Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96522303/
Dec. 11, 1941
Photograph
Launching of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on a suborbital mission.
NASA, African-American Human-Computers, Space Flight
Launching of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on a suborbital mission -- the first U.S. manned spaceflight. The Mercury-Redstone 3 was the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard.
NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
5 May 1961
Contraband Dig at Hampton History Museum
Man participates in the dig for historical evidence of the "contraband" camp in Hampton, Virginia.
Duchess Harris
DeWitt Wallace Library at Macalester College
2014-07-18
Copyright by Duchess Harris
image/jpeg
English
Image
Man_digging_at_Hampton_contraband_site.jpg
Letter Congratulating Miriam D. Mann On Twenty Years of Service
Letter signed by NASA director Floyd L. Thompson congratulating Miriam D. Mann on 20 years of Federal Government service. The letter is dated April 1, 1963 and describes the award Mrs. Mann would receive at the ceremony in October 1963.
NASA
DeWitt Wallace Library at Macalester College
1963-04-01
Thompson, Floyd
No Known Rights Restrictions
text/Letter
English
Text
1383724_10202610791611291_1794926391_n