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A Western Union telegram Marvin Anderson sent to his family on his first Christmas away from home while he studied at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.

Distressed pink glass water goblet owned by Robert Archie and Mary Alice Toliver Jones.

Photograph portrays Archie Anderson Senior on the right and Ira Rawls on the left in front of the housing development. Archie Anderson, Sr. was the secretary of the project at Twin City Negro Development Co.; Rawls was the president.

A pocket watch, originally owned by Joseph Robert Jones who recieved the watch from his employer, the Great Northern Railway, in the 1920s.

Recipe for sweet potato pie, a family favorite.

A picture of Readus and Florence Fletcher as children

Marian Brown-Moore contributed this family photograph. Pictured are mother and father William and Laura Brown, along with Marian and sibling.

Photograph portrays Lola Finny, mother of the former St. Paul Police Chief, Mrs. Clemons, and Bula, all in front of the housing development.

Family photographs belonging to the contributor, many taken before he was born. A few relate to the early Black community on St. Anthony overlooking where I-94 currently exists.

Photo of family momentos with Sterling Vincent Owens, Sr. and Wanda Marie Piper Owens (1942); Sterling Owens, Sr., Director of St. Paul Urban League.