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• Letter with envelope by Garland Fields Sr. to Emeline Gillette.
  Garland Fields Sr. (1897 - 1974) was the grandfather of Beverly Mills's (b. 1960) Mills is one of the co-founders of the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum with Elaine Buck. The two co-authored the books noted below. This first of two love letters describes their courtship and his strong feelings for Emeline, who ultimately did not marry him. Letters had been framed, images attached, and removed for digitization.
• [Sammy Davis, Jr. on Chicken Bone Beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey]
  Entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925-1990) having fun with friends on Chicken Bone Beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sammy Davis Jr. was an actor and musician famous for being a part of the famed "Rat Pack" in the 1950s and 1960s.
• [African-American sunbathers stroll down Missouri Avenue]
  Five smiling and styling women take a coordinated step forward down Missouri Avenue around Chicken Bone Beach, New Jersey.
• [Group of people having cocktails on the beach]
  Chicken Bone Beach was the segregated section for African Americans on Atlantic City's beach area. Between 1900 and the early 1950s, African Americans were socially restricted to use the Missouri Avenue Beach Area. Since many vacationing Black families arrived with chicken-laden hampers, the strip became affectionately named “Chicken Bone Beach”.
• [Family at the Atlantic City Beach Patrol Station]
  Chicken Bone Beach was the segregated section for African Americans at the beach at Atlantic City, NJ. Between 1900 and the early 1950s, African Americans were socially restricted to use the Missouri Avenue Beach Area. Since many vacationing Black families arrived with chicken-laden hampers, the strip became affectionately named “Chicken Bone Beach."
• Paul Robeson with Christine Moore Howell and a child.
  Paul Robeson with Christine Moore Howell and a child, in front of William Moore’s furniture store on Spring Street.
• Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School
  This photograph of the Bethel African Methodist Episopal Church Sunday School of Pennington, NJ features nineteen children, some siblings. All of the children in the photograph have been identified by Patricia (née True) Payne (see reverse).
• [African American basketball team]
  This photograph is a group portrait depicting members of an African American basketball team with their coach, likely in Philadelphia, taken in or around 1920.