These recordings of oral history, play songs, blues, spirituals, and stories were made in 1948 when Alan Lomax invited Vera Hall to come from her home in Livingston, Alabama, to New York City for a concert. Vera Hall's mother had been a slave, and...
In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South to record the still-living stream of traditional music in newly developed stereo sound. The collection features some of the region's most representative musicians and styles: Delta blues...
A concert of Southern African American "antebellum musical traditions" held in New York City's Central Park at the height of the Civil Rights era, in the summer of 1965. Produced by Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in cooperation with...
This little book is not a treatise on book-keeping. It is less, and it is more. Far less, because it treats of but one of many thousand applications of that useful art; and more, because, beginning with the very simplest exposition of general...
New York State Society Of Certified Public Accountants; Business ethics -- United States; Municipal finance -- Accounting; Railroads �?? Accounting; Trust companies -- Accounting; Banks and banking -- Accounting;Business education;
Barnard, Frederick A. P. (Frederick Augustus Porter), 1809-1889; Ammadelle (Oxford, Miss.); Religion; Church attendance; University of Mississippi -- Students;
Describes going to church to hear Dr. Frederick A.P. Barnard preach and saw several of acquaintances - Mrs. Boynton, Mrs. Barnard, Mrs. Whitehorne, and Mrs. Stearns. Describes his visiting Mrs. Lamar with the cake his mother sent to her. Describes...
Roberts writes about his camp outside of Atlanta, where there have been skirmishes with Union troops; he awaits a great battle. He also writes about furniture arrangements at home and asks about his son Charley, who he claims was given laudanum by...
Rumor -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions;
Tells Maggie of a visit from Major [Driver] and of the preparations for an active Spring Campaign but predicts that it will be the last year of the war.
Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Troop movements; Atlanta (Ga.); Atlanta Campaign, 1864; Nashville, Battle of, Nashville, Tenn., 1864; Franklin, Battle of, Franklin, Tenn., 1864; Military maneuvers; Field orders; Guard...
Civil War diary of Rev. Jesse L. Henderson of Chiwapa, Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Henderson served in the Confederate Army, 41st Mississippi Infantry Regiment, for 3 years. This diary was kept in 1864 and covers the defense of Atlanta and the...
