Items

• Acorn Great Oaks Grown Letter
  Letter about Joseph E. Hill Public School. The letter was revised in 1950 but the original date was January 20, 1939 (Willis-Lowry, Leslie 2025), represents a short history of the founding of the Hill School.
• Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School Plaque
  The plaque hung outstide the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School from 1895-1909.
• The 100 Negroes Who Do Most To Build Philadelphia
  Color Magazine, February 1950. Ira James Kohath Wells (1898–1997), founder of Color magazine, was born in Tamo, Arkansas. He earned a business degree from Lincoln University in 1923, where he co-founded the Colored Student Movement and joined the Student Anti-Lynching delegation to President Warren Harding.
• Land deed 1825 - Samuel seller to Jarvis Wright; Philadelphia, PA
  In colonial times, an indenture was more than what is currently known as a deed. In addition to the transfer and sale of land, it often involved cases where people received land in exchange for labor or some other type of servitude; such a financial remission.
• Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School
  The Bethel AME Church in Pennington was built in 1816 by a small group of free African Americans who purchased the land as an empty lot, as well as nearby lots for homes (Katmann 2014, 6). This photograph of the church’s Sunday School features nineteen children, some siblings. Patricia (née True) Payne has identified all of the children in the picture. (See reverse)
• Invitation to the wedding of Cordelia Sanders and Dr. Dehaven Hinkson
  Wedding reception invitation for marriage between Cordelia Sanders and Dr. DeHaven Hinkson.